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Five of the Best...Films
1. Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Andy "Gollum" Serkis is astonishing as the late polio-afflicted punk Ian Dury
2. Precious
Lee Daniels’s astonishing film, beautifully acted by Gabourney Sidibe
3. A Prophet
A stone-cold masterpiece from French director Jacques Audiard about an Arab convict in with the Corsican mafia
4. Avatar
James Cameron's epic is unsubtle but the technical achievement is awesome - see it in 3D if you can
5. Youth In Revolt
Well-scripted comedy of adolescent longing

Critics' Choice

Film

Andrew O'Hagan

quotePrecious is a new-style weepie but one that is much more bracing than depressingquote

Andrew O'Hagan Precious Theatre

Henry Hitchings

quoteIan McKellen is captivating throughout. He delights in the play’s gallows humour, yet is also maudlin and poignantquote

Henry Hitchings Waiting for Godot Theatre

Fiona Mountford

quoteSlight quibbles notwithstanding, this will set the West End’s stock riding highquote

Fiona Mountford Enron

Reader reviews

Film

Simon, London

quoteUtterly, utterly brilliant. You really are in for a treatquote

A Prophet Theatre

Ella, London

quoteThough 'Trilogy' has won rave reviews, I personally found myself exasperated after about an hourquote

Trilogy Restaurants

Dave A, London

quoteWe went on a quiet sunday evening and the food was excellent, but the experience let down by the service and ambiancequote

Mansons

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British cinema's rock'n'roll year celebrated in Evening Standard Film Awards

Three anarchic rockers, a misfit teen and a foul-mouthed politico were celebrated at the Evening Standard Film Awards. .. more |  Add your view 

 
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Anne-Marie Duff 'blown away' by Evening Standard Film Award

A star-studded ceremony celebrated the best in British film at the Evening Standard Film Awards... more |  Add your view 

 
Film Invictus

Nice try Clint Eastwood, but Invictus is unconvincing

Clint Eastwood’s portrayal of Nelson Mandela backing South Africa’s bid to win the Rugby World Cup is simply too epic for its own good in Invictus... more |  Add your review 

 
Film Youth In revolt

More tales of virgin woe in Youth In Revolt

Youth in Revolt presents us with a teenager desperate to do something about his virginity but unable to fathom how to accomplish the task... more |  Add your review 

 

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Film Tony

Murder is a mug's game in Tony

Tony is too funny to be compared with Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer, and it never labours the violence... more |  Add your review 

 
Film Astro Boy

Astro Boy lacks eye-catching novelty of Avatar

Astro Boy tries to fit in as flesh and blood, and possesses the goodness to win everyone in Metro City over.. more |  Add your review 

 
Film Holy Water

Holy Water is farcical

Irish film Holy Water hinges on four daft child-men who kidnap a van carrying a load of Viagra.. more |  Add your review 

 
Film The Island

The Island is strange but absorbing

The Island is a very Russian film, beautifully shot in monochrome colours in its snowy wasteland by Yury Nilokaev, and acted out with passionate realism.. more |  Add your review 

 
Film Letter From An Unknown Woman

Unrequited love in Letter From An Unknown Woman

Max Ophuls, often underrated during his lifetime, is now seen as a brilliant film-maker capable of turning even novelettish material into something unforgettable.. more |  Add your review 

 
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Malice In Wonderland is a gangster flick that's gone bananas

Anyone trying to make a modern version of Alice in Wonderland would be hard-pressed to imagine Danny Dyer as a taxi driver taking Alice on her adventures.. more |  Add your review 

 
Film Precious

Precious is the mother of all weepies

The African-American underclass is brought to the screen in a painfully emotive tale of redemption full of stunning performances in Precious... more |  Add your review 

 
Film Lucy Bailey

Lucy Bailey: My intrepid lover, two white Africans and Mugabe’s thugs who wanted them all dead

Director Lucy Bailey’s documentary about the epic struggle of two ousted farmers in Zimbabwe has been shortlisted for a Bafta... more |  Add your view 

 
Film A Single Man

Ford fashions a slick, sharp period piece out of A Single Man

As you would expect from a purveyor of slick, sharp fashions, Tom Ford’s first film A Single Man looks immaculate. .. more |  Add your review 

 
Film Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren

Leo Tolstoy - movie star

The great Russian author is the inspiration for two new films in his centenary year - including Oscar-nominated The Last Station - yet his links with the cinema stretch much further back, says David... more |  Add your view 

 
Film  Edge of Darkness

Mel Gibson fires a blank in Edge of Darkness

Edge of Darkness is faithful to Troy Kennedy Martin’s original screenplay in its dense plotting and largely sombre mood... more |  Add your review 

 
Film The Princess and The Frog

Disney finds its simple charm in The Princess and The Frog

Anyone who, as a child, cried their way through Dumbo and adored Bambi and Snow White will welcome Disney’s The Princess and The Frog... more |  Add your review 

 
Film  Breathless

Breathless has some remarkable moments

Breathless is as tough as teak and violent. But it’s certainly original, and Yang’s turn is little short of classic... more |  Add your review 

 
Film  Adoration

Adoration is a mind boggle

Adoration finds Atom Egoyan trying to shape a psychological thriller as commercially as he can and ending up at his most cryptic. .. more |  Add your review 

 
Film Horses

A year in the lives of National Hunt horses

As an ex-steeplechase jockey (13 wins), Derek Malcolm enjoyed Liz Mermin’s affectionate documentary, Horses.. more |  Add your review 

 
Film Oil City Confidential

Oil City Confidential packs a bigger punch than expected

Julian Temple’s messy, whimsical look at the rise and fall of the British pub rock band Dr Feelgood in Oil City Confidential packs a bigger punch than expected.. more |  Add your review 

 
Film Late Autumn

Superb acting in Late Autumn

Three ageing salarymen conspire to find husbands for their late friend’s widow and her daughter in Late Autumn.. more |  Add your review 

 
Film A Prophet

A Prophet is a masterpiece from the margins

French director Jacques Audiard delivers a sharp shock in A Prophet, with his bold and uncompromising study of a modern prison society.. more |  Add your review 

 
Film green wing

Green Wing star to host Evening Standard’s film awards

Stephen Mangan, star of Green Wing and I’m Alan Partridge, is to host this year’s London Evening Standard British Film Awards... more |  Add your view 

 
 
 
 
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