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A gentle comedy that targets its jokes at environmentalists rather than the usual targets, with beautifully drawn characters you can't help but feel for.

It is notable that for every slasher trope there also seems to be a giallo one.

It's interesting to see plastic surgery explored as a pragmatic life choice, not sensationalised.

A real charmer of a film.

Director Drake Doremus handles the material superbly, aware of its pitfalls and sensitive to all the vagaries of human behaviour which make these characters so intriguing.

A poignant and rewarding tale.

This is a quality production all round.

Hidden camera footage provides especially distressing evidence of the extent of the physical abuse.

Pulls no punches as it takes viewers on a terrifying ride through once-familiar territory turned utterly alien.

Beautifully shot, subtly performed, and full of grown-up observations on precocious, perilous play.

The single greatest problem with California Dreamin', is that it has been released in an unfinished two hour 20 minute assembly - due to the director Cristian Nemescu's untimely death.

Egoyan has made an edgy and contemporary psychological thriller.

This is bravura filmmaking.

Worthy, entertaining, but suffers in places from heavy-handedness.

Lewy avoids the trite path to redemption, choosing instead to keep this a study of man in midlife crisis, understated and realistic.

You might notice the elegance of composition while knowing that the place contains so much human suffering.

There is nothing charming left in this all-is-lost and boys-will-be-boys scenario when violence perpetuates itself and decency is nowhere to be found.

Tightly wrapped doesn't begin to cover it.

Without the murky melodrama of the original, this new Carrie is reduced to the sort of thing you could actually show in high school.

The film struggles to create the emotional resonance needed to connect with vulnerable and troubled characters.

So silly only a certified boring person would not enjoy.

Catwoman is a hybrid of superhero/romance, with a feminist touch.

When the moment of violence arrives, abruptly, at the half-way point, it does so in flurry of handheld camerawork, striking sound design and stark symbolism.

Smith crafts a movie that is more polished and - arguably - more mature than his previous efforts.

A wonderfully life-affirming film with a superb performance by Trewhitt.

A testament to tolerance, forgiveness and the ability of the characters to overcome differences.

It’s really Kurylenko's work that gives the film its emotional core, but action fans need not worry: she still delivers some impressive kicks, and gets to jump away from a petrol explosion.

The real appeal of A Christmas Karen lies in the fact that there ain’t nothin’ like a dame, but US culture has never really seemed to know what to do with such women.

Manages to impress through nifty direction on a relatively low budget, slow-burning performances from promising newcomers and a thoughtful, perceptive script.

While tolerance levels for this kind of self-consciously arty style will vary, it is hard to fault the fizzing ambition and high-voltage energy that K-Stew and her team bring to the party.

A living portrait of youth rage and criminality within an anarchic structure, where law is the enemy and corruption the currency. God doesn't live here; neither does hope.

If you’re looking for big-budget, popcorn entertainment, then Titans certainly won’t disappoint.

The action, when it comes, is introduced with an impact that will make you drop your popcorn, and you’ll be on the edge of your seat for what follows.

What begins with shrewd character observation and a good deal of bitter humour gradually sheds its skins and becomes something more blatantly horrific.

Rather than watching Sam from a distance, with curiosity, we are very much aligned with him, experiencing the world as he does, noticing the things that don’t make sense about other people.

A clever, minimal bit of film-making.

Palka’s touch is visible in the characters, who have a little more depth than is usual in such tales.

A seamlessly crafted thriller with exemplary performances all round.

Come And See is an intimate epic, in which all the promise of adolescence is perverted by war.

Only 15 minutes into this instant classic I thought ‘this is a bloody masterpiece’.

Coppola may have made films of a more spectacular nature but here he makes a virtue of a introversion - so that the film's horror moment is all the more vibrantly terrible when set in relief.

As Copa 71 goes on to show, it’s not the players that are the problem but the lack of a level playing field.

There's some good old fashioned film-making here.

Vicky Krieps...is in excellent form and up to the task of presenting to us the icon in all her idiosyncrasies.

Lucy Walker's chilling documentary serves as a reminder that the threat of a nuclear bomb going off somewhere in the world to devastating effect has not diminished just because it has slipped from the public consciousness.