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The Aviator is a beautiful picture with flawless performances, wonderful cinematography and extravagant mise-en-scene.

For a Saturday night popcorn comedy with a darker edge, you could do a lot worse.

What should simply be a diverting no-brainer is made considerably harder to swallow by the script's shallow handling of some unsavoury subject matter.

This is an ensemble performance in the psychopathology of feeling over-dramatically sorry for oneself.

Everything you expect from Merchant Ivory is here.

What once was fresh, now is stale.

Writer/director Lisa Cholodenko dispenses with cliche in favour of genuine characterisation and her script is a paragon of understatement.

Whitman respects and relishes in Austen's creation but is no slave to it, inventing additional characters to help the story flow.

Not so much From Here To Eternity as From Here To This Time Next Week, which is a terrible waste.

Simple ideas like this can only work if you give a damn and the trouble here is that you never know enough about the characters to make a judgement.

The pitting of Kingsley against Caine in this context is delightful.

Whereas the original was a bright, primary coloured comic book, this looks more like a mobile phone advert.

Delivers in spades what the first film only hinted at.

Absense of personality leaves Beckinsale's character in a limbo, where sex appeal is not the same as charisma.

A solid and unpretentious piece of genre cinema.

Van Helsing doesn't pretend to be anything other than a comic book adventure, but even comic book adventures need some kind of grounding in reality.

Whiteout should have been great; unfortunately it's god awful.