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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Has Provence been outsourced to Jaipur? If ‘The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’ is anything to go by, it seems that, along with computer programming and call centres, the...

Chronicle

Here we go again with another ‘found footage’ film supposedly shot by amateurs: this time it’s schoolkids in Seattle with superpowers. There has been wild...

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

In ‘Billy Elliot’, Stephen Daldry made a film about a boy who faced down reality to find...

Footloose

An updated remake of the small-town dance-off classic.

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

Co-directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor claim they...

Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

More adventures for teen Jules Verne fan Sean (Josh Hutcherson) in this sequel to 2008’s ‘Journey...

A Monster in Paris

There’s much to praise in this bubbly, 3D fairytale from French animator Bibo Bergeron. Set on the streets of Paris in 1910, ‘A Monster in Paris’ borrows some...

One For the Money

Star Katherine Heigl actually makes 2010’s superficially similar Jennifer Aniston vehicle ‘The Bounty...

Rango

Johnny Depp voices the titular cowboy chameleon in this offbeat animated adventure.

Safe House

Elevated above the norm by Swedish director Daniel Espinosa’s kinetic visuals, a smart script by David...

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 3D

Michel Hazanavicius and his star Jean Dujardin are...

The Descendants

Alexander Payne has shown in the likes of ‘Election’ (1999) and ‘About...

The Muppets

If the secret to great comedy is timing, The Muppets must be one of the greatest comic acts of all time. The original ‘Muppet Show’ first screened in 1976, when its...

The Woman in Black

Hanging on to your movie career is a trial for any child actor, but for Daniel Radcliffe, who is associated not just...

War Horse

Steven Spielberg plunges us into an overlit, twee vision of early twentieth-century Devon at the start of...