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48

Film

A look at the torture methods used by the Portuguese government in the Fascist era.

42

Drama

• Critics' choice

From writer-director Brian Helgeland (he wrote ‘Mystic River’ and directed ‘L.A. Confidential’) comes the inspirational true story of Jackie Robinson, the first African-American baseball player to break the so-called ‘colour line’ of Major League Baseball....

7500

Horror films, Thrillers

1860

Drama

9.79*

Documentaries

10

Documentaries, World cinema

36

Drama, World cinema

A young woman scouting locations for a film uses digital photos to document the spaces she visits. When she finds that her laptop hard disk has crashed, she realises that she has lost not only a year's worth of work, but also her memory of a young man...

13

Film

8 1/2

Drama, Classic

50/50

Comedy, Drama, Comedy drama

• Rating: 3/5

Modern bromance edges towards the serious with this comedy-drama about a Seattle radio exec, Adam (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), who develops a rare form of cancer, and the goofy best friend, Kyle (Seth Rogen), who urges him to turn his frown upside down and...

1941

Comedy

Spielberg's extravagant folie de grandeur, a madcap comedy recreation of an allegedly true story, with Hollywood suffering from mass panic when it's thought that a Japanese submarine is about to lead an invasion force into California. The period sets...

81542

Film

10

Film

Shot entirely from the front of a car and using (with one exception) just two camera angles, this low-budget digital sheds light on the predicaments of six women and a child – all inhabitants of modern Tehran – as they argue, joke, cajole and comfort...

36

Drama

The French crime thriller has long had a love-hate relationship with its more (commercially) powerful American counterpart – from Hollywood’s embrace of the fatale atmospherics of ’30s French poetic realism to Melville’s complimentary refinements of the...

11:14

Comedy, Drama, Thrillers

Marcks’s clever – well, intricate – but finally disappointing indie debut feature has a fine cast and serious attitude, or at least as much attitude as the loutish young denizens of smalltown Middleton, New England can muster. Take Jack (Henry Thomas),...

300

Action and adventure, War films

Taking its cue from Frank Miller’s comic-book version of Greek history rather than the 1962 vintage swords-and-sandals epic ‘The 300 Spartans’, the latest Hollywood take on the heroics of Thermopylae brings us Gerard Butler’s hammy Scots-accented Spartan...

4:30

Drama

1:1

Drama

‘1:1’ takes the inner-city high rise as societal microcosm by following the bigotry and violence that stem from an incident in which a white youth is beaten up and put into a coma. Shadi is from a Palestinian family and is secretly dating Mie, the sister...

1408

Fantasy films, Horror films, Thrillers

• Rating: 3/5

A polished Stephen King adaptation from Swedish director Mikael Håfström (‘Derailed’), whose taut psychological chiller is tarnished only by outstaying its welcome towards the end. It’s virtually a one-man show for John Cusack, as a jaded debunker of...

4

Film

21

Drama

• Rating: 2/5

Based on the true story of a bunch of MIT geeks who hit Las Vegas for a winning run on the blackjack tables before casino security cottoned on, this is a great idea for a movie but not a great movie. In essence, it adheres to the evergreen guys-on-a-mission...

1234

• Rating: 3/5

The vague term ‘indie rock’ has shifted a lot in meaning over three decades, but some associations have stuck, namely loud guitars, black-framed glasses and skinny teens in skinny jeans. An unabashed celebration of indie-ness in its most recognisable...