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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...

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...

Star Trek Into Darkness

‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ is a brisk, no-nonsense sci-fi action sequel built around a conflict between the crew of the Starship Enterprise with a slick, slippery new villain, John Harrison (although there’s more to him than meets the eye), who’s play...

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...

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...

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...

Arbitrage

The financial thriller is a tricky thing to get right: there’s only so many times a devious elderly white man in a suit can toss around phrases like ‘hostile takover’ and ‘corporate bias’ before it starts to become confusing or dull. ‘Arbitrage’ is t...

Epic

The folks behind the 'Ice Age' series deliver another animated romp, this time with a strong eco-theme, as a teenage girl, voiced by Amanda Seyfried, is exploring the Amazon with her scientist father and finds herself caught up in an age-long battle...

Evil Dead

Last year, ‘The Cabin in the Woods’ took to pieces the whole idea of the ‘video nasty’, exposing its glistening innards. Now this reboot of Sam Raimi’s landmark 1981 horror exhumes its disembowelled corpse. Yet despite much old-school splatter, it’s...

Olympus Has Fallen

Hollywood’s funny way of celebrating Barack Obama’s re-election is to put the White House through as much hell as possible just to prove its resilience. In September, Channing Tatum will hold the fort against an invasion in Roland Emmerich’s ‘White H...

The Hangover Part III

When 'The Hangover Part II' survived critical brickbats to become the smash hit comedy of 2011, another sequel was inevitable. Director Todd Phillips has insisted that this third movie will act as a finale, with no more sequels to follow. We'll belie...

The Stone Roses: Made Of Stone