As usual with Pixar the film operates on twin levels - with one part going straight over the heads and minds of its junior target audience and the other heading directly to their parents.
When a girl moves to a new home, her emotions are plunged into chaos as they compete for control of her mind.
Dropping the demonic angle in favour of a more clichéd serial killer back-story proves a major mistake – it scuppers all ambiguity and feels like a step back from the bedlam of the original.
A haunted family seek to discover the secret of why they are so vulnerable to malicious spirits.
With these rich characters and this level of awareness, the stage is set for what ought to be a great film, but sadly Insidious: Chapter 3 amounts to less than the sum of its parts.
In a prequel to the first two Insidious films, medium Elise helps a teenager who is desperate to contact her deceased mother.
The idea that a family would face the war crime equivalent of lions, tigers and bears in the space of a few hours barges through the boundaries of belief.
A woman tries to hold her family together under a constant barrage of war.
Fascinating, haunting and often very tense, The Interrupters is a solid piece of social comment that gets the camera intimately into the action, and it suffers only in that such an issue demands more be brought into the camera's scope.
A story of ex-gang members who are now protecting their communities from the violence they themselves once employed.
Intersexion is a vital film not only in bringing its subject to public view, but in doing so primarily through the stories of intersex people themselves.
A documentary exploring the secrecy and shame around intersex births, and the lives of intersex adults.
Compared to the high points of the ghostly assassinations, the detective storyline is a by-the-numbers exposition of a formula that is too déjà vu to be deeply uncanny.
A series of killings involving
mirrors and supernatural powers
lead a policeman and an
ex-colleague on a hunt for the
truth.
A gentle, thoughtful, genuinely entertaining film with endearing characters and real ideas.
In a world where there is no concept of deceit, one man's life is transformed when he figures out how to lie - but will it bring him what he really wants?
After a string of vulgar performances in awful films, Tim Roth here makes a stunning return to form as the cabaret owner and hypnotist, courageously portraying an ambitious and frightened man whose life is dominated by the secrets he keeps.
A Jewish blacksmith's son becomes a strongman in Berlin on the eve of Hitler's rise to power.
Even the most rose-tinted viewer able to remember the show's original broadcasts will be hard pushed to claim this as anything other than a huge misfire in pretty much every respect.
Molecular scientist Daniel Westin becomes permanently invisible when an experiment goes wrong.
That the Pentagon has, since the making of this documentary, revamped its rules to try to improve things - in particular, offering immediate transfers for those who allege abuse - is testimony to the power of Dick's work
On paper, Invisible Waves may sound like just another Asian action policier or revenge thriller, but in reality it is altogether more abstract and elusive than that.
A man, dogged by guilt, goes on the run after poisoning his lover.
At times profoundly moving, In a Foreign Land burns with indignation at the circumstances foisted on a generation who did what they were supposed to do but who have had little choice but to abandon the careers and futures they thought lay ahead of them.
Documentary about Spaniards forced by commerce to seek work abroad.
Despite the idiosyncratic characters, smart insider observations and interesting setting there are also too many laugh moments relying on off-the-shelf stereotypes.
An underachieving vocal coach is motivated by her father, the king of movie-trailer voice overs, to pursue her aspirations of becoming a voice-over star.
Agnieszka Holland understands that what really makes an impression is the internal experience of such extreme situations.
A self-centred, anti-Semitic, Catholic sewer worker shelters Jews from the Nazis, at first for money but gradually because he comes to care about them as a human being.
Lovering has crafted an old-fashioned thriller for those who like to be gripped without gore and which offers enough surprise and inventiveness to suggest that he has a career beckoning beyond the confines of television.
A couple get lost in the countryside and as night falls they realise they may not be alone.
