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Aguirre, Wrath of God

Werner Herzog’s mad masterpiece from 1972 still has its hallucinatory charge. Its star, Klaus Kinski, terrorised his fellow cast and crew, and in its own way ‘Aguirre’ has become cinema legend (director Herzog says the only way he could keep Kinski o...

Barry Lyndon

This often breathtaking exploration of the world of Thackeray’s titular eighteenth-century Irish adventurer – showing at the centre of the BFI Southbank’s unmissable two-month Stanley Kubrick season – is the nearest the great director ever came to re...

The Blue Black Hussar

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...

A Hijacking

Danish telly has taught us much: the attraction of good knitwear (‘The Killing’); the finer points of Danish politics (‘Borgen’). Now, from this classy hostage movie, we learn how to negotiate with Somali pirates, and – perhaps more usefully – how to...

The Hunt

What does it feel like to be wrongly accused of being a paedophile? ‘It gets into your bones… it gets into your soul,’ Lord McAlpine said recently. In this nerve-shredding drama from Denmark, a good man’s life is ripped apart by false allegations tha...

Mud

The Beach Boys’ feelgood jukebox standard, ‘Help Me, Rhonda’ is played twice in ‘Take Shelter’ director Jeff Nichols’s third feature, amplifying the sense of sunkissed nostalgia present throughout this amiable but over-familiar coming-of-age story –...

Our Children

Can a story be too emotional? Too powerful? Too overwhelming? These questions come to mind when watching this Belgian drama – based on tragic real events. It’s no spoiler to say that ‘Our Children’ tells the story of a mother in a town near Brussels...

The Paperboy

Lee Daniels follows the heart-on-sleeve emotional wallop of his 2009 indie hit ‘Precious’ with an all-at-sea adaptation of a Pete Dexter novel. It’s a story of murder, sex and race in late 1960s Florida that displays little consistency of style, tone...

A Prophet (Un Prophete)

Found guilty of assault and sentenced to six years behind bars, French-Arab teenager Malik El Djebena is caught at the centre of a violent tug of war between the Muslim and Corsican inmates, the latter led with an iron fist by Cesar Luciani. Press-ga...

Rescue Dawn

Werner Herzog’s latest is another trial by ordeal, and a further chapter in his ongoing muddying of the borders between documentary and feature filmmaking. ‘Rescue Dawn’ is a pretty straight dramatic account of the real-life story of Dieter Dengler,...

William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet

Romeo and Juliet are the youngest members of their clans, the Montagues and Capulets, who have been at war with one another for many years. Bloodshed, bitterness and betrayal litters the two clans' histories, both sides too proud and too consumed wit...

Something in the Air

Olivier Assayas’s ‘Something in the Air’ is a swooning and swirling but always level-headed study of the lives of a small group of suburban Parisian teenagers in the years soon after 1968. An ensemble drama with a pleasingly light touch, it looks bac...

Thor: Legend Of The Magical Hammer (Hetjur Valhallar: Thor)

Voices (Boses)