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Brideshead Revisited

The big-screen adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s 1945 novel about a family of aristocratic Catholics sees Ben Whishaw as Sebastian,...

Burn After Reading

The Coens return to a lighter, glossier vein with this comedy drama about a missing CIA memoir. George Clooney, Gil Kenan’s scary animated movie ‘Monster House’ acknowledged its young audience’s ability to engage with a surprisingly...

Eagle Eye

Let’s see if your eagle eye is working: After being falsely accused of high crimes (North by Northwest), our heroes find the whole of modern technology turned against them...

Gomorra

How To Lose Friends & Alienate People

Conflicted British journo Sidney Young (Simon Pegg) used to poke fun at celebrity culture in his left-field London mag, but, now...

Igor

‘I’d rather be a good nobody than an evil somebody’ is the mantra for this undistinguished animated Frankenstein comedy spin-off. Igor is one of many identical-looking hunchbacks who aid the...

Mamma Mia!

Throughout the screening of ‘Mamma Mia!’ I kept clocking the security guard in the corner. What was he thinking, I wondered, as Pierce BrosnanAl Pacino and Robert De...

RocknRolla

Wrong-footed by the new credit-crunch zeitgeist, but with recovered fluency after the hiccups of ‘Revolver’ and ‘Swept Away’, director Guy RitchiePierre Morel (‘The Transporter’), ‘Taken’ is a...

The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas

The son of a Nazi officer befriends a concentration camp inmate in this harrowing, inspiring drama.

The Duchess

If you’ve seen the posters for ‘The Duchess’, you’ll know that they recall the marital woes of another Spencer, Princess Diana, born two centuries after Georgiana (Diane English’s abysmal remake of George Cukor’s 1939 femme classic will have fans of the original growing claws....

Tropic Thunder

Attention, fans of Pineapple Express: Here’s the real transgressive comedy of the summer—more or less Stiller’s version of The Last Movie....