MESRINE:PUBLIC ENEMY NO 1AT THE CLOSE of Mesrine: Killer Instinct, Jacques Mesrine (Vincent Cassel), France’s most notorious hoodlum, seemed to have robbed…Fri Aug 28 2009 - 01:00
FUNNY PEOPLEYOU KNOW THAT a middle-aged novelist is running out of ideas – yes, I’m looking at you, Martin Amis – when his or her novels …Fri Aug 28 2009 - 01:00
Inglourious BasterdsTHE PHONEY war has given way to roaring, unfettered conflictFri Aug 21 2009 - 01:00
I Love You, Beth CooperA LITTLE MORE than 20 years ago, during the heyday of the late John Hughes, Chris Columbus directed a fine youth-oriented comedy…Fri Aug 21 2009 - 01:00
ShortsYOU WOULD BE more impressed by the oft-repeated fact that Robert Rodriguez directs, writes, edits, produces, scores and, for …Fri Aug 21 2009 - 01:00
Dance FlickWHAT WOULD happen if you were force-fed manure for a decade? Maybe you’d go crazy, or maybe you’d start to like manure.Fri Aug 21 2009 - 01:00
Marty’s Sinatra will enjoy a drinkIf you believe the New York Post (and, for the purposes of this column, we do), the surviving family of Frank Sinatra – in particular…Fri Aug 21 2009 - 01:00
Mamet to take on Anne FrankDavid Mamet, laureate of foul language and the creative repetition, is to tackle one of the most admired and sensitive stories…Fri Aug 21 2009 - 01:00
The summer's sleeper hitJust when it looked as if the US box office had been totally subjugated by awful, over-promoted thrillers and romcoms, a relatively…Fri Aug 21 2009 - 01:00
Aliens in the AtticYES, YES, I know. That title? That poster? The awful trailer? Aliens in the Attic , a family film from the director of horrors…Fri Aug 14 2009 - 01:00
Imagine ThatIT’S ONE OF those films in which an overworked dad, who never has time for his adorable kid, experiences a supernatural revelation…Fri Aug 14 2009 - 01:00
Mid-August Lunch/Pranzo di FerragostoJUST HOW slight can a film be without floating off the celluloid and dissipating about the auditorium? Gianni Di Gregorio’s charming…Fri Aug 14 2009 - 01:00
Sin NombreWE COULD, if we were feeling bitter, find space for a treatise on middle-brow film audiences’ recent decision that South and …Fri Aug 14 2009 - 01:00
HomeIT’S ALWAYS cheering to encounter a film that defies easy classification, and Ursula Meier’s debut feature is just such a beast…Fri Aug 07 2009 - 01:00
GI Joe: The Rise Of The CobraWE HAVE become accustomed to the feeling of deflation that accompanies the release of a film that has been hugely hyped on the…Fri Aug 07 2009 - 01:00
AdamTHERE’S NO denying that this largely harmless picture drips with good intentionsFri Aug 07 2009 - 01:00
The Ugly TruthHERE’S THE ugly truth. This is the sort of film that you’d punch in the face if you met it in the streetFri Aug 07 2009 - 01:00
G-ForceJERRY BRUCKHEIMER, who is to subtlety what napalm is to foliage, has rarely had much to do with kids’ films (the Pirates of the…Fri Jul 31 2009 - 01:00
Coco before Chanel / Coco avant ChanelIf you liked La Vie en Rose , then you’ll love, well, energetically acted films about French chanteuses featuring authentic Gallic…Fri Jul 31 2009 - 01:00
Mad Sad and BadWHAT WERE they thinking with that title? Few critics will, noting the variable quality of this British near-comedy, resist the…Fri Jul 31 2009 - 01:00
Soul PowerFANS OF When We Were Kings, Leon Gast’s magnificent documentary about the Rumble in the Jungle, will recall that, before George…Fri Jul 31 2009 - 01:00
Just another love story/Kaerlighed PA filmONE IS, from time to time, tempted to describe this or that film as looking a little like a Victorian melodramaFri Jul 24 2009 - 01:00
The ProposalHAS THIS romantic comedy been deliberately counter-programmed against Antichrist? I don’t suppose the folk at Disney keep much…Fri Jul 24 2009 - 01:00
Irish films to join Canadian clubNews is creeping out about the Irish features that will premiere at the looming Toronto Film FestivalFri Jul 24 2009 - 01:00
The weight of waterIT’S TAKEN A while for Courtney Hunt’s debut feature to make it across the Atlantic, but, though the picture does have its rough…Fri Jul 17 2009 - 01:00
Blunder Down Under Fingers on buzzersTV REVIEW: The Oz Factor RTÉ2, Sunday; Torchwood: Children of Earth BBC1, All week; You Have Been Watching Channel 4, Tuesday…Sat Jul 11 2009 - 01:00
35 shots of rum/35 rhumFANS OF CLAIRE Denis, the director of Beau Travail, Trouble Every Day and other beautiful oddities, will already have guessed…Fri Jul 10 2009 - 01:00
Cloud 9/Wolke neunTHERE WAS every danger that this well-acted, wryly amusing German film could have gone badly wrongFri Jul 10 2009 - 01:00
The private lives of Pippa LeeREBECCA MILLER, director of the erratic Personal Velocity and the barmy The Ballad of Jack and Rose, hits something like her …Fri Jul 10 2009 - 01:00
Fired upI WONDER IF the Communist Party still organises those summer retreats, during which teenagers were carted off to remote dormitories…Fri Jul 10 2009 - 01:00
Cotillard's vie en rolesFor Marion Cotillard, subsuming herself into the exhausting role of Edith Piaf was simpler than mastering an American accent …Sat Jul 04 2009 - 01:00
Walking on a thin wireTV REVIEW: Father and Son RTÉ1, Monday; Revelations: How to Find God Channel 4, Sunday; Imagine..Sat Jul 04 2009 - 01:00
GIGANTICAT VARIOUS points in this fantastically pointless and dizzyingly pompous quirky comedy, a bearded figure (played by Zach Galifianakis…Fri Jul 03 2009 - 01:00
Lake TahoeWHEN WATCHING extreme exercises in narrative minimalism – even from the masters, such as Jim Jarmusch or Abbas Kiarostami – the…Fri Jul 03 2009 - 01:00
Ice Age: Dawn of the DinosaursBEFORE making general facetious remarks about the third film in Fox’s glacially (get it?) boring prehistoric franchise, let us…Fri Jul 03 2009 - 01:00
The Coen clan: keeping it in the family"I guess I end up playing eccentric guys in Joel and Ethan's movies," John Turturro says.Fri Jun 19 2009 - 01:00
KatynThe 1940 Katyn massacre, in which the Russian NKVD murdered several thousand Polish soldiers, has been looming over Andrzej Wajda…Fri Jun 19 2009 - 01:00
The Last House on the LeftWHAT TO MAKE of this troubling exercise in creative depravity?Fri Jun 12 2009 - 01:00
Red Cliff/Chi BiHow fortunate for John Woo that warfare in third-century China appears to have had so much to do with hurtling fireballs.Fri Jun 12 2009 - 01:00
Anything For Her/ Pour ElleIF YOUR special one was wrongly arrested for murder, would you do anything to secure his or her release?Fri Jun 05 2009 - 01:00
Fermat’s Room/la Habitación De FermatJust last week, when reviewing the chuckle-headed puzzle movie 12 Rounds , I made facetious reference do that old conundrum in…Fri Jun 05 2009 - 01:00
