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At the beginning, wit ricochets off the walls [then] the movie loses its spark.

Flawed though it is, 500 Days Of Summer is still a fair cut above the average piece of Hollywood fare both in terms of its laugh quotient and offbeat romance.

Like several genre-splicing and convention-lampooning comedies of late, the film tries to have its cake and eat it, but this can leave both sides of the recipe feeling half-baked.

Brick is something altogether peculiar, more than the sum of its parts

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

It starts to become clear what happened here: there's a children's party game where everyone takes a turn writing a paragraph, and the next person only gets to see the last sentence.

An odd mixture of the striking and the squandered.

You know what's going to happen. The only difference is the teenagers don't strip first.

You will no doubt need to see Inception more than once to appreciate every nuance of Nolan's carefully balanced ambiguities – but, more importantly, you will also want to.

The trouble is that Lacote is in favour of telling rather than showing.

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.

Certain scenes feel too glib and stagey, as though they’ve been doused with pop video gloss – particularly the snow, which surely had its own assistant, make-up artist and trailer.

The real strengths of this picture lie in the zippy camerawork and asphalt-shredding location work, the sheer speed at which Manhattan moves tangible in every frame.

It can be a little preachy, even twee, at times, but that is a major part of its charm.

You don't venture into this steaming snake pit without balls of steel

Oliver Stone takes the story and gives it slick mainstream polish, bringing the issue home in a way that is understandable and urgent, even if his hero ends up seeming almost too good to be true.

Stop-Loss is the most pro-troops Iraq war-film I have yet witnessed.

The sentimental stuff works for a change.

This is a clean-cut, old school script that has no time for messy interludes or spare chat, but this is a feature film not a documentary and the polish adds pace.

Everything is wired for excitement.