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Congratulations are in order to Shattered Glass helmer Billy Ray for playing it straight and subtle, resisting the temptation to jazz up the action quota and indulge in Hollywood speechifying.

Highly polished mainstream comedy that will keep you sniggering delightedly all the way through your bible class.

The trial plays out in a courtroom that looks more like a church and the few cringe-in-your-seat scares are economically used to great effect.

Mortensen seems to draw particular focus to the aggression, fear and pejoratives associated with neurological disorders - a side only ever faintly explored in cinema.

This is a long, slow and supremely well-written film.

Hawke’s writing is hot on the money, as close as you know to the false bravado and insecure hope of a lost boy.

Are Bill Murray's fabulous presidential brogues what is worth remembering most, or are some of the statements about gender still valid commentary?

Richly atmospheric and often deeply disturbing, Jindabyne is a superb example of well-crafted drama, cinema taking on real issues without ever losing its narrative edge.

Condon lightens the academic atmosphere with an entertaining montage of interview sessions.

A must-have for crime drama junkies.

This race for life never fails to stimulate excitement, but Parker takes it easy, too easy.

It feels middle-aged, lazy and reliant on stereotype.

Uneven, but never less than entertaining.

Penn is powerful; Bacon is sharp; Robbins is troubled; Fishburne is alert. Having them here is a privilege and a pleasure

The director Mark Pellington uses infuriating camera tricks - out-of-focus slow motion, etc - and a deeply unsubtle musical score to heighten the suspense.

The trouble is that the film takes great effort to counter everything that makes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's creation stimulating.

It might be light fun, but its bland derivativeness and lack of any cohesive attempt to tackle its own core subject matter will make you want to forget it faster than a disposable diaper.

This is a study of bitter, sorry people hurting each other using ancient memories, propelled like bullets via the power of fiction.

The plot revelations are interesting and not easily guessed beforehand, making this film more than your simple romantic drama .

A disturbingly accurate portrayal of the New York intelligentsia.

A tragically funny glimpse of a family in meltdown, made all the more excruciating by the veneer of sophistication blanketing everyone involved.

Jim Carrey throws off his clownish mannerisms and gives a sympathetic performance of a naive man discovering a little knowledge.

It avoids sentimentality and explores layers of damage beneath the surface of family relations.