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A Christmas Carol

Director Robert Zemeckis uses the motion-capture techniques developed in his previous film, 'Beowulf', to tell re-spin Charles...

A Serious Man

Always the cruel gods of their movies, the brothers now turn to religious desperation—a perfect match—and, obliquely, to their own Jewish boyhood in late-’60s suburban Minneapolis....

Avatar

James Cameron's highly-anticipated mega-budget return to filmmaking after a 12-year hiatus since 'Titanic' in 1997. Expect big...

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

The Pixar crew have been smugly ensconced as kings of their computer-animated castle for a while now, secure in the knowledge that while the other animation houses – with their sass-talking...

Glorious 39

Many of British cinema’s grandees (Nighy, Lee, Christie, Redgrave) come out to play for Poliakoff’s first cinema film for over a decade. It’s a Hitchcockian wartime drama whose journey is...

Goodbye Solo

How wondrous has it been to watch Brooklyn’s own Ramin Bahrani, 33, evolve into a new Abbas Kiarostami? (The latter,...

It's a Wonderful Life

'This story is the lousiest cheese...' Capra admitted to his star after making a rotten pitch. Stewart stuck by his favourite director. 'Frank, if you want to do a movie about me committing...

Le Donk & Scor-Zay-Zee

Read our interview with Considine here

Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

If the jangly rhyming title sets your teeth on edge, we should give you fair warning: It’s all like that. Zach Helm, who...

Paranormal Activity

Arriving on a wave of carefully orchestrated viral hype, Paranormal Activity lacks the conceptual elegance of its obvious precursor, The Blair Witch...

The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart return in this...

Where the Wild Things Are
Few could be trusted to bring Maurice Sendak’s much-loved children’s story to the screen, but Spike Jonze – who juggled...

Wings of Desire
Part romance, part comedy, part meditation on matters political and philosophical, Wenders' remarkable movie posits a world haunted by invisible angels listening in to our thoughts. Such plot as...