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Even De Niro cannot breathe life into a corpse.

The film’s 12A certificate is prohibitive for younger children – though with parental guidance kids as young as 10 might well get something from it – and yet the manner... is simply too simplistic for an older audience.

Breaking And Entering feels genuinely homegrown, with an intelligent script, beautifully handled by actors and director.

Intrigue peels away to reveal darker, deeper layers of complexity and corruption. The plot explodes.

If it sometimes feels like Wan's falling back on the tricks of the trade, he's also often able to spin something unexpected out of the familiar.

The Conjuring is in its biggest state of non-belonging since its beginning.

After messy, overblown mishaps like Gangs Of New York, the maestro of Mean Streets is back. With a vengeance.

The film stands back, doesn’t take sides. As a political thriller it stays out of politics. As a human drama it rocks to a gentle rhythm.

The plot rots in its own historical juices.

The film covers all the bases and yet fails to hit a home run

Move over, Damien.

Here, ideas do not flow hierarchically: they are conceived in the space between two individuals; they emerge from conversation and are endlessly recycled, coming to seem more like the obvious truth every time.

[DuVernay is] not here to tell people what to think – rather, she’s presenting them with the tools to start thinking for themselves and making their own discoveries.

Director Jaume Collet-Serra proves a master of pace, beginning slowly and ratcheting up the tension, rendering any part of the cinema seat other than the edge irrelevant.

Tightly written (Wesley Strick and Bruce Robinson) and directed (Joseph Ruben), with strong performances all round.

Besides the schizophrenic storyline, what really brings the film down to a 3-star experience is the fact that director Wayne Kramer uses every editing technique he can think of, despite whether it is appropriate or not.

The role of Frost, enigmatic, dangerous, with added unfathomable moral compass, is something Washington excels at and can do in his sleep, but he's played that card perhaps too many times for it to seem fresh.

There are some powerful moments in Skin, but however lasting some of its impacts the film isn't as deep as it hopes.

Ben Ripley's script is far less interested in the technical aspects of its own apparatus than in the human condition itself – our desperate search for big answers and satisfying closure, and the mortality that both delimits and perhaps ennobles this very

A quick script and sharp performances all round help deliver an enjoyable, if ultimately sentimental commentary of the times.