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Despite scenes of brutal murder and demonic torture, the film is imbued with a tone of surprising innocence.

The clash of styles is painful to watch

Visually, McCracken opens the bottle and lets every colour of genie loose.

The pace accelerates through 15 stages of excitement without stopping to refuel

With Perfect Blue, Kon takes the tropes of the thriller and twists them to the point of surreality. He also subverts them.

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

Robert Zemeckis has created a unique and (dare I say it?) magical work of art.

An emotional, thrilling, disturbing and beautiful film.

Just so you know, if you've seen Babe, or Animal Farm, there isn't any reason to see this. I'm surprised there haven't been infringement lawsuits threatened.

Somewhere the plot hangs by a thread. All you have to do is find it. But you can't

Better than you might expect but not as good as you want.

An old-fashioned mindwash of a movie.

Once Rio has settled into its status as a romantic chase caper, the breakneck momentum comes ready-fitted.

As the film sinks into a morass of sugary fizz a serious question bursts to the surface: are children really interested in emotional cohesion within communities?

The animation is odd

Catch one episode of this, and you are likely to be left in awe... catch more than on and you will start noticing the grinding repetitions.

The tone may be cheeky and playful, but it is always affectionately so.

Things happen rather than develop.

This is inventive and fun. You can't ask for anything more.

The plot would confuse an intelligent bat.

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

Offered the galaxy screenwriters and animators can't help themselves. They indulge and then overindulge until nothing makes sense anymore

The pace is frantic, the characters entertaining and the CGI seagulls a squawk

The creative spark lights no fires in this crib.

You may suffer mild face ache. This is caused by persistent smiling

The film may be a dog trainer's day out but as entertainment it sucks on wood

As the dashing assassin Puss in Boots, Antonio Banderas is perfectly cast, and there is not one moment of his performance which is not worth watching.

Snow White, the first full-length animated feature, shows a class that Disney has since run out of.

Nothing short of an instant cult.

The power of invention is strong and the visual imagery matches the plot's unique vision, defining all logic of storytelling.

Daft as a brush and consistently funny.

A slow burner.

The animation which has gone into these characters is magnificent, giving them lots of subtle facial expressions and body language.

This 3D animation is a joy to behold, and is of a quality rarely seen in anything made for televison.

This scatter-shot approach to comedy has all the sophistication of sticking a 12-bore into a crowd and pulling the trigger. Sure, you're going to hit everyone, but it's not very clever.

Modest in its ambitions yet dazzling in its scope.

The plot pigs out on possibilities but the characters are great and if you can keep up with the speed of events you won't be disappointed.

The musical accompaniment is powerful and one feels the viewer is in for a treat, but soon the wooden puppets become, well, very wooden and the wonderful aesthetic loses its attraction, with each movement taking too long.

The film mixes good old-fashioned storytelling with state-of-the-art animation, and it's a winning combination.

The plot proceeds along a familiar track with the imagination of a tree slug

A great film in every way, never smug, somehow managing to juggle comedy and political purpose without one becoming more important than the other.

Rather than churn out a fourth grade cheapo product, the creative crew have sold no one short

As coincidence after coincidence piles up the plot becomes somewhat predictable.

The 3-D is subtly done... There are no obvious changes to the picture, which is to Disney's credit.

The society it depicts is one in which ordinary people – and especially women – are crushed beneath the joint burdens of a medieval moral code, and an unfeeling bureaucratic enforcement process.

This isn't the Thomas we loved when there was nothing else to watch