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1915 does an impressive job of balancing different perspectives and concerns around the issue of remembrance.

Robert Kechichian manages to build a keen sense of this darkness and tension.

The complexity of Egoyan's construction enlightens, rather than confuses. How the pieces fit together is a sleight of cinema.

By focusing on the journey of how a spy becomes the Bond, James Bond we all know, the movie manages the impossible task of coping with all the baggage laid before it and reinvigorating our interest.

Perset is definitely one to watch out for.

A follow-on that more than rivals its predecessor.

Baudry excels in the well-orchestrated battle sequences and the huge protesting crowds surrounding the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

There isn't a whiff of falsehood, or evidence of a set designer's duster.

Le Peron approaches it with the originality you might expect from the avant-garde.

Seen purely in aesthetic terms, Persepolis is an object of rare beauty, with no obvious precedents or parallels in the history of anime.

The Serpent is a thriller of infinite cunning and surprise. It is unlikely that you will be more frightened in a cinema this year.

Janis Eglitis' exquisite cinematography is beguiling in the proper sense.

Visually arresting and emotionally engaging.

Amazingly for a film so teeming with ideas, it unspools in clean, lucid scenes of near Spartan simplicity.

The animated characters have a detailed, Disney-friendly feel, but there is little of the sentimentality that tends to fur the teeth of US animation.