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Tomboy

• Rated as: 4/5

And the award for 2011’s loveliest film might just go to… Céline Sciamma’s scintillating autumnal comedy, ‘Tomboy’. While the psychosexual water-aerobic shenanigans of her 2007 film, ‘Water Lilies’, felt coloured by the work of French provocateur,

Scary Movie 5

And so it continues… In 2000 the Wayans brothers scored big with their silly dumbed-down horror spoof ‘Scary Movie’, which followed a group of kids stalked by a serial killer. Thirteen years later, with Anna Faris and Regina Hall both signing off

Iron Man 3

• Rated as: 3/5

Calling ‘Iron Man 3’ a mixed bag doesn’t really do justice to the heady peaks and interminable troughs in this scrappy but overwhelmingly likeable superhero sequel. In the minus column, there’s the tedious, talky first act, the script’s uneasy

Promised Land

• Rated as: 2/5

‘Promised Land’ might have American director Gus Van Sant’s name next to the title, but in the execution it feels like less of a director’s project than films such as ‘Last Days’ or ‘Elephant’. It’s a good-natured but fatally underpowered drama

Warm Bodies

• Rated as: 3/5

Love used to be so simple: girl meets boy. Then it was girl meets vampire. Now, with ‘Warm Bodies’, we’re on to girl meets zombie. From director Jonathan Levine, this is ‘28 Days Later’ the zomcom, a good-natured, likeable mash-up set after a zombie

The Hunt

• Rated as: 4/5

What does it feel like to be wrongly accused of being a paedophile? ‘It gets into your bones… it gets into your soul,’ Lord McAlpine said recently. In this nerve-shredding drama from Denmark, a good man’s life is ripped apart by false allegations

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