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The tension is never loosened, the action seldom rests and the dialogue sounds as sharp and convincing as the actors who speak it.

The emotions of the characters can barely find any wiggle room.

Apollo 13 is one of my favourite films, it's one of those films that stirs my sense of discovery, as well as plunder our collective dreams.

Harris the director handles both the personal moments and the action sequences well.

Russell Crowe carries the can and he does so with honour and the can becomes a trophy, richly deserved.

At turns funny, violent, bitter and over the top, it's a curious little fable about boredom, risk-taking, and the frustration experienced by trained fighters in peacetime.

Having set a scene of intriguing grotesquery the plot falls victim of its own invention

Certain Women is a film suffused in uncertainties.

An honest musical understanding is displayed throughout and it provides a refreshing undercurrent in what might otherwise be a stiflingly familiar tale.

A western for sleepwalkers and dreamers.

Tears will be shed as you watch.

The subtlety comes from Crystal's underplaying, although the rat-a-tat-tat ad-libs and improv one-liners slow the movie down.

Great cast, great dialogue, great Baldwin cameo, great movie.

In Gone Baby Gone, Affleck transposes Dennis Lehane’s searing novel about child abduction to the big screen without sacrificing either its dark mood or moral ambivalence.

An unflinching indictment of the savagery at the heart of the American dream.

It would be difficult to overestimate the quality of this film.

In A House Of Dynamite the uncertainties are propulsive, what we learn unsettling. Each tick of the clock reorients our understanding of the same events.

The twisted story spans decades, but a series of consistently strong performances give the plot the cohesion it needs.

Intelligent and sophisticated.

Knightriders represents the venerable director’s most personal and intimate work.

Spielberg, as he is very good at, goes out on a limb to walk a tightrope of his own making between melodrama and sinewy storytelling.

The film comes into its own because of Gyllenhaal's non-judgemental perspective, even sympathy, for the small suffocations of motherhood.

There's no doubt that by presenting several characters as pure id is quite a dangerous gambit for a filmmaker but Glass keeps things interesting by having them driven by different things.

The effects and the action and the creatures are fine. The script dies out.

Car chases and retro dialogue clog up the machinery

In any film franchise there's got to be one that's the least good, and this is it.

In the realm of the insane reason has no place. Anything is possible. Even the impossible

In the end, it is a question of taste. Either this is Capra refried, or Sandler on toast.

With an unchallenging plot, some interesting facts thrown in for history fans, and likable characters, this is an unpretentious, entertaining film which adults as well as kids can enjoy.

The film is gratuitous and gross, treating the audience as cretins.

Twelve is the new 11 and mediocre is the new good.

Surprisingly for a cartoon aimed at pre-teens, this is about aging

Unfortunately the malicious ghouls of the title aren’t the only spirits haunting director Gil Kenan’s prefab carnival ride.

As a directorial debut, the film is patchy, but intense.

The film is about death, whether in the arena, or out

The film is perverse and weird but the director doesn't know how to choreograph it for maximum effect

While Gooding's performance is fine, it's so bound up in artifice that it's hard to really admire.

The narrative deals profoundly with grief as well as loss which will assuredly resonate with most of us.

Full of shocks, but disappointingly light on horror.

Jakubowicz has achieved what every director depicting the Nazis strives to do but what most fail at - he has made them terrifying again.

For all that there are premonitions, dreams, even a witch, in truth this is a film without magic

There are so many distractions and superfluous plot points that the only way Bay can compensate is to turn every scene into an MTV blur.

Pain has a price

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

There are quite complex issues here for children to engage with, but they’re presented in an accessible way, and repeat viewings will prompt kids to ask different questions as they get older.

Released for the Christmas audience, this film does have a touch of the pantomime about it.

The mix of action and satire also turns it into an absorbing hell of a ride.

At first, you think Chris Columbus is going to take the subject seriously, but when Susan Sarandon receives bad news from the cancer clinic, he skids on treacle and is lost.