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What the film does well is to establish that, in the absence of larger problems, anxiety is refocused on smaller ones.

About Schmidt is about wasted lives. These people are dull, sad or whingesomely vulgar. You laugh at them, rather than with them, and feel guilty doing so.

There's plenty in Bee Movie for people of all ages.

Director John Lee Hancock doesn't seem to have the guts to go the full distance and pulls his punches every time. We get gloss instead of grit.

What is astounding, is the restraint shown by director Gary Winick - nothing takes us from the quiet rural life of America in the Forties.

The script is, at times, very funny, though the use of a very droll narration is unnecessary.

The film itself has a fluid identity, part will they/won't they romance, part mystery and part unsettling thriller.

Save the planet, buy Citizen Quartz watches and eat at McDonalds!

The entire movie is about a boring, sad man being boring and sad.

Throwing in some slapstick and cutesie animals doesn't distract from the fact that the female characters exist only in relation to men.

Fred Claus has a lot of things going for it but struggles because it can't make up its mind what it's trying to be.

The title suggests derring-do, when No Country For Grumpy Old Men would better set the mood.

The performances are stunningly good and Gordy Hoffman's script avoids sentimentality, remaining economic and observant.

For some, Midnight In Paris will be first love; for others, a delicious encounter with an old flame.

What could have been preachy is fascinating.

It will definitely appeal to women rather than men, but it will also touch anyone, male or female, who has had to or is having to face a terminal illness.

A painful watch.

The pace is well controlled and never too breathless to lose direction.

If this is the new slapstick, bring back the old

What raises Cameron's creation above costumed action spectacle is the quality of the writing and the chemistry of its juve leads.

It's not long before it all becomes delightfully self-mocking.

Showcases the hand-drawn aesthetic and an admirable focus on female characters that is part and parcel of the Ghibli brand.

Making fun of learning difficulties is not nice. Mommy says so.