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Fast & Furious 6

Episode six in this overcooked cars ’n’ girls franchise offers no surprises, though Londoners might feel a frisson of excitement when watching their city being trashed and raced around in by V8 saloons and souped-up ‘Mad Max’-style single seaters. It...

Iron Man 3

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 attemp...

21 and Over

The plot for this new American comedy might sound like it's in the territory of 'The Hangover', which is unsurprising seeing as it's the directing debut of the writers behind that earlier hit and its sequel, Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. They've also wr...

The Great Gatsby

‘Romeo + Juliet’ and ‘Moulin Rouge!’ showed us that Australian director Baz Luhrmann can throw a hell of a party. Now, after the epic drabness of ‘Australia’ he pulls the stereo out of storage and does it again. The best scene in this fast and furiou...

Me And You

After a serious back operation, legendary Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci went missing from film for a decade. Now he’s back, directing from his wheelchair. A triumphant comeback? Not quite. ‘Me and You’ is eco-lightbulb-warm next to ‘Last Tango...

Epic

Can the tiny warrior Leafmen protect their queen and her magical rosebud, which will one day give them a future monarch? Or is the rosebud’s flowering threatened by the invasion of a dark force? Welcome to ‘Epic’, a Freudian lineage anxiety drama for...

The Hangover Part III

A surprise blockbuster hit, the original ‘Hangover’ took a brotastic scenario then mined it for gross-out comic gold. Success breeds sequels, or in the case of ‘The Hangover II’, the exact same movie reset in Bangkok. This third – and if there is a b...

First Position

Five thousand young hopefuls from all over the world enter the annual Youth America Grand Prix, a dance contest for kids from nine to 19. A mere 200 make the final – watched by talent-spotters from major ballet companies. Scholarships and contracts a...

All Stars

We’ve had ‘Streetdance’ (twice). Now meet ‘All Stars’, the UK’s latest attempt to ape America’s lucrative tween dance scene (in 3D). Ethan (Theo Stevenson) is a cheeky schoolkid who throws a talent contest to save the local youth club. His own dance...

Robosapien

Based on the popular kids’ toy, this mediocre, off-the-cuff robo-flick is a cliché-ridden ‘Short Circuit’ wannabe. But it’s got one decent feature – a cute knee-high talking android that kids will really warm to. Dismayed at the prospect of having hi...

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

This is that rare thing: a franchise that grows more winning with each instalment. The garish, noisy ‘Madagascar’ series has always been something of a circus, so it’s fitting that this ingratiatingly manic third entry finds its quartet of Yankified...

The Croods

The Croods in this animation are a prehistoric family who have escaped death by disease, mammoth, big cat and other assorted nasties via the simple ruse of staying in their cave whenever they can. It’s a strategy dear to the heart of brawny patriarch...

Wreck-it Ralph

Perhaps the best reason to go and see ‘Wreck-It Ralph’, Disney’s spangly attempt to beat daughter company Pixar at their own high-level game, isn’t in the film itself: rather, it’s ‘Paperman’, the Oscar-nominated seven-minute short that precedes it....

The Big Wedding