The latest releases reviewed.
THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA ****
Directed by David Frankel. Starring Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci PG cert
Feasting on barbed bitchy dialogue, Streep exudes hauteur as the domineering editor of the most influential fashion magazine on the newsstands. Hathaway plays the doe-eyed aspirant journalist who wanders into the lion's den as her junior assistant in what is both a cautionary tale about workaholism and a caustic satire on the fashion industry. Michael Dwyer
SNOW CAKE
Directed by Marc Evans. Starring Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver, Carrie-Anne Moss 15 cert
Rickman, just out of prison, embarks on a strange platonic relationship with an autistic woman whose daughter has recently been killed in a car crash. Weaver is rather too showy as the bereaved parent, but the picture, shot in Canada, does have a languid, deadened feel that nicely articulates the suppressed emotions that skirt her psyche. A partial success. Donald Clarke
THE LAST KISS **
Directed by Tony Goldwyn. Starring Zach Braff, Jacinda Barrett, Casey Affleck, Rachel Bilson, Blythe Danner, Tom Wilkinson. Harold Ramis 15 cert
Set among a mass of bickering lovers in the American mid-west, The Last Kiss is too grim to be a comedy, too trivial to be viewed as a drama, doesn't have enough songs to be a musical and features too few car crashes to qualify as an action film. In short, no fun at all. Donald Clarke
EDISON *
Directed by David J Burke. Starring Morgan Free- man, Justin Timberlake, Kevin Spacey, LL Cool J, Dylan McDermott, Cary Elwes, Piper Perabo 15 cert
Going directly to DVD release here, this naive rehash of tired movie cliches is set in a fictional US city where the crime rate has collapsed. In a blankly inexpressive acting debut, Timberlake plays a freesheet journalist intent on unravelling and exposing a stinking web of police corruption. The cast overact in a movie sunk by rafts of risible dialogue. Michael Dwyer
