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Relationships based on sex and infatuation are doomed

Abruptio...stands out because of its format but has a strong narrative and smart ideas behind it.

Extremely well done.

O’Nan the writer and director consistently pulls an unexpected development or a priceless piece of dialogue from up his sleeve, ensuring you never lose interest in the tangled lives of a flawed but basically good-hearted main trio.

The film succeeds so well in a genre, where pastiche is the norm, by accepting absurdity as real.

In all this amazing whoosh and whiz someone forgot the story.

Perhaps wisely, Grassroots never really seems especially engaged with ideology.

Anna Faris plays ditsy like a young Goldie Hawn, though not nearly so well.

The film works on almost every level, particularly its central relationship.

There is no room for quirky individualism, as writer Bill Wittliff shovels on the sentimentality. Even the dialogue is highlighted with italics.

For an erotic thriller it's pretty short on both thrills and eroticism.

What Aronofsky has done with Selby's script is remarkable. With the use of split screen, hip-hop montage and every trick in the cinematographer's bag, he has forged a work of considerable significance.

Aniston... spends much of the picture grimacing and stroking her stomach, rather as if she is about to be ill. Perhaps this is because she realised she was now contractually obligated to finish the picture.

Superhero Movie follows almost exactly in the footsteps of its forebears, the Scary Movie films; this time the parody is aimed at the bloated belly of comic book hero movies.

The fact that this film still gets people talking, and arguing, nearly 20 years on, is surely an argument for its quality and relevance.

Barry Markowitz's cinematography makes the bleak marshland look hauntingly beautiful throughout, without ever relieving the sense of natural menace that hangs over the film.