Search: Starring Annette Bening

Annette Bening gives a glorious, all-encompassing performance.

As a thumbnail analysis of the middle-class American psyche, Alan Ball's script is a devastating attack. It is also extremely funny.

Occasionally veers into trite territory and the climax involves a big rousing speech, but it’s all very charming and intelligent.

For all its quality, and there's plenty, it doesn't quite feel a thing complete. Its characters are disobedient, but their film is in part disordered.

Cap Marvel is another powerful woman hero to add to the line-up.

This isn't a lecture about acting your age, nor is it an advert for Viagra. It's far more sentimental.

Annette Bening plays a different character, raging against the truth, a bitch angel feeding her emotions.

Fanning's sincere face in happiness and disbelief is the essence of the film.

Initially seems to be another quirkily neurotic chick-flick, but soon reveals itself to be surprisingly good-natured and insightful.

Downey is juicy, Bening is brave, the rest are out to lunch.

A whip-smart, often very funny family drama, presenting observations on domestic life that are all too uncomfortably recognisable.

Rarely has the title of a film summed it up so well - or so completely.

Bening’s performance is a triumph over leaden writing.

The film undercuts the pop psychology associated with sporting success, clearing the space in which to attempt a more honest account.

For the second time, Costner has bet the farm and found his strength in cattle country.

The only mystery is why anyone would stay to the end of Poolman.

The problem with The Report is that despite this ongoing relevance, its powerful subject matter, the capable cast and an impressive script, it never builds up the impetus it ought to have.

The movie is peopled by characters without boundaries and the cast responds by turning in some of the most extravagant performances this side of I, Claudius.

Every time we are afforded a glimpse of the outrageous figure, the film crackles with energy.

Hazanavicius creates scenes of conflict that have echoes of everything from Apocalypse Now to Full Metal Jacket.

Michael Mayer's reframing of the action puts more emphasis on the female characters and, in so doing, helps to bring out its more contemporary aspects.

Edward Zwick has succeeded in turning a contemporary nightmare into a good day's sleep.

As a cinematic experience it’s as dull and maddening as a bad dose of PMT.