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Further evidence of German filmmakers’ willingness to confront the darker episodes of their recent past – and spark a controversy in the process.

Although everyone knows the outcome, the film remains riveting.

It’s a real shame that the director doesn’t show enough interest in his own story or characters to make them anything more than sketches and surfaces.

Angelopoulos likes to linger. Every shot would benefit from a tighter edit.

One of the flaws of Malick’s film is that the main character goes into introspective mode, thereby depriving us of any real insight in to his thoughts.

Dillon makes a fair fist of the role of Jack.

The neat trick of Aakeson and Moland is to balance the humour with unexpected moments of poignancy and humanity as fathers from both sides of the criminal tracks share the common ground of parenthood.

Jonathan Demme directs with utter simplicity.

Adjani's performance has an ethereal, otherworldly quality about it.

Atom Egoyan's terrifically paced episodic thriller Remember is hard to forget.

This is Freud as we rarely see him, human and approachable and a bit baffled by the idea of having a young fan.

A classic example of a workmanlike piece given enough polish to make it stand out.

What emerges, despite the magic realist trappings, is a classic Coppola tale; Like Kurtz and Michael Corleone, Dominic is a man alone, haunted by his memories and driven to tragedy by the essence of his character.