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It looks like a commercial for the land of the free.

Despite Gugu Mbatha-Raw's fine interpretation, the film feels predictable, as if it were fiction and not based on real events.

The children, including Nico Liersch as Leisel's friend Rudy, are genuinely good, but they are strong performances in service of a film that doesn't quite work.

With tongue firmly in cheek Cold Souls thrives off the irony and contradictions that plague its protagonist.

Corpse Bride is even better than The Nightmare Before Christmas. It displays the imagination of a man, haunted in childhood by the Brothers Grimm, with a twisted sense of humour, steeped in 19th century romanticism.

The performances reflect Robbins' upbeat approach and are as enjoyable as they are inspired.

Perhaps most impressive of all is how the themes of ambition, friendship and life-affecting decisions are dealt with without resorting to mush or cheesy-sentiment.

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

The grandeur and beauty of the place is set against figures of climbers, like black ants, across a white wilderness

Has the feel of an authentic autobiography, where nothing is straightforward.

There’s a sense that everyone is struggling to breathe under pressures which nobody is willing to address directly.

Altman's great triumph is in galvanising the energies of exceptional actors into a living, breathing entity.

The adaptation feels oddly timid and selective.

A mixed bag, as while Everett the actor masterfully evokes the mournful mix of decadence and decay of the last years of Wilde, Everett the filmmaker is, like so many before him, too much in love with the brilliant old rogue for his own good.

With such material it is hard to fail. Tucker does not succeed, that's all.

Schizophrenic in its approach and vicious in its intent.

One of the best British films of the year.

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

Renée Zellweger inhabits the role of Beatrix with the warmth of a fluffy bunny and the perspicacity and determination of a woman artist struggling to be recognised in a man's world.

The plot stumbles into an abyss early. There is nothing left because there was nothing here in the first place

The attempted act of consummation has a theatrical element to it. She is too passive, he is too angry.

In taking on such a huge subject, Oranges And Sunshine acquits itself well.

Cave's screenplay is full of rich incidents, impossible moral choices and, most of all, complex characters, brought to grimy life by the excellent ensemble cast.

There are similarities to the work of David Lynch and Jocelyn Moorhouse, but this is something entirely fresh.

Lacks a sense of danger

Norton holds the film together. He is such an unselfconscious, natural actor. Fiennes gives it welly.

The film runs deeper than passion's cruel barb.

It''s in the ordinariness of it that LaBute finds the real horror.

I do not know that I could ever with a good conscience describe a film as 'perfect' but this comes close.

Mainstream audiences may hate and critics may debate, but Synecdoche is a work of unmitigated, undisciplined genius.

A delight from beginning to end.

A good yarn well paced and well made.

Quite possibly the best of its kind.