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Anderson has absolute command of his craft and his cast are moulded to it.

Save your grey matter for coordinating the movement of your hand to your mouth, or your jaw to the sticky cinema floor.

Directors Joe and Anthony Russo use the length to explore more than one significant theme in depth and to shift tone markedly from hour to hour.

Infinity War is a clearing of the decks: opportunity for new characters and plots to emerge; opportunity too for some characters to move on.

It is entertaining.

Everything is so hurried that the wheels begin to come off.

If you're a fan of Marvel's cinematic universe, you absolutely cannot miss this instalment.

As if it's not bad enough that Chef is marinated in sticky sentiment, Favreau's occasional attempts to sprinkle in heavy-handed drama make for a stodgy mix.

Despite the seemingly grim subject matter, Gordon-Levitt goes the upbeat route with his debut feature.

Handles the far-fetched hokum very well and with a constant sense of humour.

For all its star-power there's not much shining.

Firth gives one of his brooding, unshaven, devilishly attractive performances, borrowed from romantic fiction.

It's all very messy and in the real world would clearly end in tears, but Hunt gives a bittersweet and witty performance that has you crossing your fingers for a happy ending.

A warm, wise and witty examination of male/female relations so grounded in the real that makes Sex and the City look as insightful as a stool softener TV ad.

The Coens' obvious fun in concocting scenes of mid-century paranoia is infectious.

It is in these details, the small objects Jonze provides us with in his film of disembodied desires, that essences become distilled.

When it's not exciting, it's funny and when it' not funny, it's entertaining.

Stories as good as this are rare.

Sacha Gervasi's quick-witted Hitchcock discloses assorted desires of reinvention

Anyone who enjoyed the first Iron Man will love this, but if they expected something better then they will be disappointed.

Fast, furious and Calvin Klein-ad slick.

Go in as a fan of Anderson's work and you will not be disappointed. Go in as a fan of film and you will likely be delighted.

A simple, delicate comedy .

As Jojo, Davis delivers one of the finest performances of the year.

That so much of the product placement is different kinds of candy is what's going on here: it's more of the same, maybe with one new ingredient, but familiar, safely packaged, brightly coloured, and quick.

The film has adventure at its heart and excitement in its pocket.

The pace may be slow, but the feelings are racing.

Besson proves he can still concoct a roller coaster ride that harnesses special effects to his creativity in a way that proves stimulating, arresting – and great fun.

There is the air of a dysfunctional family agreeing to get together for Auntie Sheila’s wedding.

The film is at its best when it is portraying conflicted emotions - as old love underlies fresh acrimony.

This is comedy in the Shakespearean sense, the whole story revolving around the importance of luck.

In casting its net My Mother's Wedding has just a few too many gaps.

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.

Portraying a woman of such character is no easy task, and it's unfortunate that the task has fallen to Natalie Portman.

Irony and danger is hinted at, only to be reeled in to the safer backwaters of Hollywood banality.

The issue is that if you strip out the elevated craft and A-list performances, what is left is the sort of bread-and-butter plot arc Cagney & Lacey used to rely on back in the day.

The real challenge is to keep up with the pace as well as the information overload.

Some films envelope you, others baffle you. The Prestige is a mixture of the two.

If this sounds like a corn fed carbon copy of a Debbie Reynolds standard, it's not

The ladle of light-hearted farce is never far enough from the plot.

Daft as a brush and consistently funny.

It's fun. It's quite unabashedly so, which is something too many movies based on this sort of property are afraid of.

A film that seeks to challenge and alienate its audience from the get-go, knowing full well that it won't win all of them back.

The best movie this wonderful writer/director has made in a long time; funny, sharp, perfectly paced and rather gorgeously shot, with a quartet of cracking parts for excellent actors placed firmly at its centre.