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Mangold’s version proceeds far too quickly to a ludicrous, logic-defying shoot out.

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.

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.

Nolan has gone beyond DC Comics into a psychological no-man's land where lessons can be learned.

Christian Bale delivers his best performance for years as fund manager Michael Burry.

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.

Nicolas Cage plays against type, retaining his movie star persona, which is not the same as being convincing in the role of a man who lives for opera.

An outstanding achievement: a rich, dark and complex movie

One can't help but think that there's a great film in there struggling to get out.

Equilibrium is that rarest of cinematic entities, a film which succeeds both as intelligent science fiction and as action drama.

Throw away The Bible and let's look at this thing afresh

Christian Bale - reduced lately to whispering solemnity in the likes of Dark Knight and Terminator Salvation - gets to really cut loose with Dicky in a performance that is sure to give Geoffrey Rush a run for his money on Oscar night.

Few films get away with this kind of intensity.

Sound fades into nothing and the pace slows

Anime at its very finest - lightning paced, visually stunning, feverishly creative and overrun by a logic all its own.

A beautifully shot, brilliantly acted incoherent mess, ranking up there with David Lynch’s Inland Empire as one of the most inscrutable films of the year.

Malick and his cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, if nothing else, deliver stunningly beautiful vistas and backdrops for his narratives and characters, yet like the characters, there seems to be something empty at its core.

Writer/director Lisa Cholodenko dispenses with cliche in favour of genuine characterisation and her script is a paragon of understatement.

Bale's performance is superb, his devotion to the role scary.

The film avoids the easy route to Clicheville and stays on the dark side of the road.

There is nothing erotic about any of it and an 18 certificate seems overzealous.

This is one of those films where you wait for someone to fall off a horse.

The characters are crudely drawn in more ways than one..

Somehow, A Murder Of Quality draws you in to its clichéd story through the charm of its well developed and coyly satirical characters.

Epic, sprawling and inspirational.

If you have a particular passion for the Gothic, you may find this film appealing despite its flaws.

Some films envelope you, others baffle you. The Prestige is a mixture of the two.

Scenes are set up and played out as if rehearsing for a mud sculpture

Johnny Depp has rarely been better.

Before the movie disintegrates completely - it makes Mad Max look like a classic - you can't help wondering how these Yanks fuel their war machines.

Beneath the cover of portraying the generalised horrors of war, the film is more subtly critical of America's conduct in both the Vietnam War and the current conflict in Iraq.

This is no run-of-the-mill shoot-'em-up. It has a definite signature and a real blackness to it.

Terminator Salvation looks more towards its potential sequels than towards itself.

A merchandising rather than mythologising opportunity..

This is the closest you'll come to experiencing the allure of fame and the power of illusion.

Compelling viewing.

Whilst it’s never intrusive, the film makes room for the personal and, perhaps more importantly, for Herzog to meander, interlinking diverse ideas in his inimitable way.