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Essential viewing for anyone with an interest in the craft of filmmaking.

Ideas of fascism, loss of the soul and post-apocalyptic existence, all ripe for exploration, are given a body swerve in favour of muddled new-age nonsense.

Estevez uses Bobby’s words too much, but you can’t blame him, because Kennedy’s compassion and sympathy for the underprivileged shines.

Fisher and Wood achieve a great rapport, and there’s some entertaining supporting work even though much of our time is spent in the middle of nowhere.

The sense of a society eating itself alive on a gangsta myth is very strong.

This is one film that's really going to test the mettle of Wood's mainstream fanbase.

The writing is so sharp and rapid-fire, and the performances so charmingly self-lacerating, that you will be happy to spend time in these characters' company.

The writers, Michael (The Player) Tolkin and Bruce Joel (Ghost) Rubin are award winners. Why have they churned out a run-of-the-mildew script that makes Volcano read like a tight human interest item?

Everything Is Illuminated is about storytelling: not only Alex's narration (in hilariously mangled English) of Jonathan's search for his past, but also Alex's retelling of his own life and family history.

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

Tellingly, despite all this extra material, the film does not feel slower and does not become boring. If anything, it’s better balanced, with a more fluid sense of momentum.

Although there's mercifully little football in this, there's also minimal emotional depth.

The originality of Happy Feet is a genuine surprise. Whether the script will hold the attention of the under-nines is less easy to judge.

The film has a lot of energy and plenty of appealing characters but it's poorly paced with too many subplots.

The pacing is agonisingly ponderous: in the screening I attended two ents got up and left.

James Schamus's script is sharp and witty. Lee is very good at getting affecting performances out of actors, especially the younger ones.

Has its moments of genius.

The Return Of The King is too long and slow. It has about five endings.

This is indeed the war of worlds

It’s flashy and glossy where the original was fetid and grubby, winking at the audience where Lustig wallowed in the misery to memorable effect.

One of the finest films of the year.

It is like nibbling for nearly two hours in the kitchens of the best chefs. At the end we are exhausted and hungry.

Numerous small changes work together to change the character of the battle.

Set Fire To The Stars never quite catches, but that's not to deny the chemistry between its leads or the artistry of its approach.

I know it will mostly appeal to comic book fans like myself, but people should give it a chance, if only to experience its style.

The Trust is whimsical, deliberately uneven and much more interested in character than action, yet it also has moments of searing tension and a couple of blistering action sequences.

Even in the cheapest of zombie films, human bodies have never come apart so easily, nor contained such an abundance of blood. It explodes across the screen at frequent intervals, each one more spectacular than the last.

There is more world building here than in any other part of the trilogy, and the additional material means it’s better balanced with character development.