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Bradley Cooper as Richie gives the finest madcap performance of his career.

What matters here is what is real and what is the figment of a sick imagination.

The movie is fun, without being furious.

David O Russell's latest - a shaggy dog mystery with a deliberate air of penny dreadfuls - could do with more straightforward narrative and fewer screwball convolutions.

Stephanie Allynne and Tig Notaro are impressively attuned to the humanity of their characters.

Who are those grown-ups weeping in the back row? Ignore them. They're historians.

Any film that has both a fight director and a dance choreographer is probably doing something right.

Allen's genius is in bringing out the humour in little incidents and in using them to provide sharp insights into character.

Shot with a loose but observant style that captures energy and thoughtfulness in all the right places.

The script is witty and the animation has moments of breathtaking imagery.

It is impossible not to be charmed.

Anything Else is a breezy comedy, full of funny scenes and classic Allen one-liners.

Sex has seldom been better served for discerning, romantic sensualists.

Undoubtedly, a masterpiece, this three-and-a-half hour version puts body on the flesh of what was already a great movie.

An undeniable technical achievement.

Richard Gere is getting better with age. The lived-in look suits him and he holds this film tight.

Memory, reality, fact and fiction blend to give you a vivid 'feel' for the interviewees' recollections while being acutely aware that this remains a remembered reconstruction of the past.

Older viewers may find it too much but it's spot on for what it's trying to achieve.

It explores its existential themes with a confidence which sometimes verges on vulgarity but which never descends into mere pretension.

For those looking for monster on monster action, this isn't the best Gamera film, but it does have a couple of good battles.

Martin delivers a finely tuned performance that retains audience sympathy without sliding into apologism.

We witness the best ensemble acting in a film with actresses in leading roles that Hollywood has produced this year.

The audience should be warned that the film boasts a cliche level that could also be hazardous to health.

Save your grey matter for coordinating the movement of your hand to your mouth, or your jaw to the sticky cinema floor.

Directors Joe and Anthony Russo use the length to explore more than one significant theme in depth and to shift tone markedly from hour to hour.

Infinity War is a clearing of the decks: opportunity for new characters and plots to emerge; opportunity too for some characters to move on.

Once they hit the road, the script goes away with the pixies.

Garcia – reminiscent of a young Jack Lemmon - puts the hang into dog perfectly and the script will bite your arm off.

'An effective and realistic examination of a world where intelligent and privileged characters have reached near-adulthood without having any real understanding of basic morality.'

An astonishingly powerful story.

Truly defies classification.

When it comes to action, the physical abilities of the cheerleaders make them genuinely scary predators.

Messy, unstructured and deeply disappointing

Anthea may be dull, but she’s nice. Michael may be passive, but he’s sweetly charming. You care enough about them to wonder whether they kiss better than camels on heat.

These are the pigments of luminous cinema.

Alone With Her merits congratulation for its brave, innovative style and unflinching seizure of a most relevant modern issue.

The script is weak, relying heavily on travelogue-style scenes of Earhart’s flights, passages from her diaries and newsreel footage and headlines.

Full of passing vistas, moments of lyricism, raw sex and emotions – all building to a portrait of youths trying to bond together to survive.

For a movie that treats penetration with military precision, it is not as radical as it appears. Traditional rites-of-passage sentiments surrounding the Prom remain intact.

The level of humour has plummeted.

A charrming and funny improvement over the second and third slices.

A beautifully observed study of a small community remaining united in the face of seismic shifts.

The drama is well balanced, with good chemistry between the various members on the ensemble cast and an effective counterpointing of pathos with dark humour.

Burgundy's ability to survive cockups on an industrial scale is impressive

This is what used to be known in the sixth form lavs as bike shed humour - infantile male gags about the female anatomy, genitalia, show-off swaggering and sexual innuendos, so broad they flatten subtlety and boil boob gags until they pop.

Simple messages, simply but warmly told.