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Somebody was aiming for Argento's style but missed by a long way.

The film is repetitive in the way it tackles its subject, but the people themselves make up for that.

Maclean shows a land where loss of innocence is ever-present.

Rickman is at his best.

Aisling Walsh's film is a cry from the wilderness, which in the past would have fallen on deaf ears.

You have never seen a film nosedive as badly.

Quietly devastating.

True believers in Father Christmas should avoid this film like the plague.

Knowing, loving, kidding and one of the year's best films.

Marsh takes no prisoners, makes no apologies and kicks you when you're down, all of which makes his films dangerous, inifinitely watchable and almost unbearably surprising.

The slow-burning Arkansas vista is beautiful and harrowing at the same time, a panorama interrupted only by tractors dotting the horizon, but one where a car parked in the wrong place can attract a mob of pitch fork bearing men.

The film may be a dog trainer's day out but as entertainment it sucks on wood

Shyamalan continues to cut a swathe through mainstream Hollywood, while retaining an integrity and refusing to compromise his vision.

The film cuts every so often to one of the few monuments honouring the victims of Franco’s regime; faceless statues pierced with bullet holes on a deserted mountain side. The Silence Of Others puts real faces to these figures.

Phoenix gives his character more depth than such men are usually afforded but deliberately takes a back seat, allowing Reilly the dramatic lead role he has long deserved.

An unusually intimate, exploratory film underscored by dry humour, Sky Peals has an atmosphere that you won’t find anywhere else.

Snatch is way over the top, like Lock Stock was, only second time around it doesn't feel so fresh.

The Somnambulists is a powerful, unapologetically political contribution to the discourse about this country's questionable manoeuvrings abroad since 9/11, lest we forget.

The Sound Of Scars is one of those documentaries which starts with something very specific and finds the whole world within it.

At last, a children's film that is fun!

Stuart is a great guy, when he's not feeling sorry for himself. The filmmakers let him down by not being daring enough.

While Adams and Blunt scrabble for subtext and a depth that simply isn’t there, the movie congeals around them.

There's so much that borrows from other places that Superman doesn't feel indebted as much as hollowed out.

With eloquent, understated performances from both leads and a willingness to take its time, Supernova explores not merely the issues they face but the life they share.

Johnny Depp gives one of the greatest performances of his career.

Lauren at least has the sense to ham it up a bit in an effort to create comedy, but she has nobody to bounce off.

The sadness and the courage and the ambition is here

This scatter-shot approach to comedy has all the sophistication of sticking a 12-bore into a crowd and pulling the trigger. Sure, you're going to hit everyone, but it's not very clever.

A brief trip into shortbread-tin Scotland.

The selection of songs shows an insider’s fervour.

Though the tone is lower-key and much darker than in M*A*S*H, there is still some of the sense of the ridiculous which made Altman’s cult classic so watchable.

The substitute of the title is a delirious, rictus-grinning comic creation.

This is a film of two halves, with the half involving sweetness and light muddled and limp in comparison to its tougher, more sinister flipside, while the ending is almost unforgivably trite.

Asinine and confusing.

It would be overly enthusiastic to say that Survival is a true return to form after the relative misfire of Diary, but it is difficult to deny that Survival is a pretty good piece of genre filmmaking.

When the film's romantic and more cathartic strands start to emerge half way through, it nestles into the perfect smug of the sentimental and jagged edges the film previously creates for itself.

Echoing Homer's Odyssey and also the procession of the Olympic torch, Swandown happens in fits and starts, sometimes achingly slow, intermittently brilliant.

The perfunctory plot is much less of a serious crime than The Sweeney's worst offences, however - that it feels dated and, for all its surface gruffness, pretty daft.

It suffers from an air of deja vu.

Beautifully photographed.

The plot is as real as a bouquet of silk roses.

While everything looks fabulous and the narrative - based on the novel by Angeles Mastretta - is engaging to a point, there's a sense that we're only getting part of the story.

Manages the bleat of despair and a bubbly breeziness.

The central plot is that old fave of the superhero genre - world domination

A charming documentary about a still ongoing chapter in not-quite-popular music.

Changing the main character's sex from a man to a woman is the most obvious and radical idea Taymor brings to the table, and it succeeds in deepening several of the piece's key relationships.

It may look and, even on family terms, feel nostalgic but Lazarescu makes sure we're aware of the tough choices facing her characters.

Anderson is astonishingly assured for a first-timer.

Though the film had its moments - mostly in the deliciously playful nature of Shakespeare's dialogue - it's hard to see it matching the success of other recent adaptations of the Bard.

The film rattles along at a fair pace, peppered with gentle warmth and good humour.