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Five of the Best...Films
1. An Education
Nick Hornby's sensitive adaptation of journlaist Lynn Barber's excellent memoir of her first boyfriend.
2. Tales From The Golden Age
Portmanteau film with five stories about the horrific final 15 years of the Ceausescu regime in Romania.
3. Fantastic Mr Fox
Wes Anderson’s take on Roald Dahl is full of quirky magic — with a sly George Clooney voicing Mr Fox.
4. Bright Star
Jane Campion's imaginative portrayal of the Keats/Brawne love affair.
5. Disney's A Christmas Carol
Starring Jim Carrey as Scrooge.

Critics' Choice

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Fay Maschler

quoteWith a single dessert and just two glasses of wine our bill was kept in check - but the effort of doing so was not much funquote

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Andrew O'Hagan

quoteThis is a film with beautiful performances and a visual style that urges you towards reflectionquote

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Henry Hitchings

quoteAlthough the first half of Kwei-Armah’s production is pacy, funny and intelligent, the energy level then drops offquote

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Reader reviews

Film

Squiz, Islington

quoteI loved this film from start to finish. Take the girlfriend, tell your mum - I'd see it again tomorrow and will buy the dvd.quote

An Education Theatre

Joe, London

quoteI saw this last night and can't remember the last time I was so moved in the theatre.quote

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Hiroshi Sugiyama

quoteI have been to many of London's so-called best Japanese restaurants and none have been as good as the food that I've had at Aqua Kyotoquote

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Clooney's barmy army in The Men Who Stare At Goats

The Men Who Stare At Goats, taken from Jon Ronson's non-fiction book about the US Army's attempt to use paranormal powers, doesn’t quite cut it... more |  Add your review 

 
Film Bright Star

A captivating love story in Bright Star

Jane Campion's Bright Star is full of confidence about its artistic vision and genuinely poetic, says Andrew O'Hagan.. more |  Add your review 

 
Film Jennifer's Body

High school vampire teasing in Jennifer's Body

Jennifer's Body, starring Megan Fox, is no ordinary splatter movie but one written by Diablo Cody, who penned Juno.. more |  Add your review 

 
Film 1 Day

1 Day is impressively non-moralistic

Made on the unlovely streets of Birmingham, 1 Day has been labelled the first British hip-hop musical.. more |  Add your review 

 
Film A Christmas Carol

Enjoy a thrill ride with A Christmas Carol

Robert Zemeckis's A Christmas Carol is splendidly mounted and visually imaginative animated 3D version of the classic novel.. more |  Add your review 

 
Film Paper Heart

Romance in Paper Heart

You will find cheaply made American independent docudrama Paper Heart, charming or faintly irritating.. more |  Add your review 

 
Film An Education

Sex and the sixties in An Education

An adaptation of journalist Lynn Barber's memoir of her days as a suburban schoolgirl brilliantly captures the spirit of its age in An Education... more |  Add your review 

 
Film Tales From The Golden Age

Laughter in face of tyranny in Tales From The Golden Age

Written by Cristian Mungiu, this portmanteau film has five stories, each helmed by a different but unnamed Romanian director, which comment on the surreal and comic urban myths of the time - most of... more |  Add your review 

 
Film Love Exposure

God and perversion in Love Exposure

If you can stand its length, this winner of the International Critics’ Prize at the Berlin Film Festival - Love Exposure - has some extraordinary things in it.. more |  Add your review 

 
Film Dead Man Running

Dead Man Running is entertaining enough

If you think Rio Ferdinand’s form on the football field has suffered lately, it could be that he has been fretting about his cockney crime caper Dead Man Running.. more |  Add your review 

 

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Film The Horseman

The Horseman is an undeniably well made film

Steven Kastrissios's debut has Peter Marshall as a devastated father seeking bloody revenge in The Horseman.. more |  Add your review 

 
Film Citizen Kane

Innovations aplenty in Citizen Kane

Made by Orson Welles at the tender age of 25 in 1941, Citizen Kane is certainly the most stunning debut film.. more |  Add your review 

 
Film Aaron Johnson

Artist Sam imagines stunning vision of young Lennon

What a pleasure, and what a fitting end to an excellent 53rd London Film Festival. Sam Taylor-Wood's film about John Lennon's teenage years is a moving and accomplished debut.. more |  Add your review 

 
Film This Is It

Curious clips do little to resurrect Jacko in This Is It

This Is It shows Jackson centre stage throughout, always moving, often singing and sometimes looking like he is genuinely enjoying himself... more |  Add your review 

 
Film Fantastic Mr Fox

Fantastic Mr Fox is a bright-eyed bushy tale

Director Wes Anderson chooses homemade kookiness over CGI trickery for his take on Roald Dahl’s classic Fantastic Mr Fox — the result is charming. .. more |  Add your review 

 
Film Johnny Mad Dog

Making the boy soldiers in Johnny Mad Dog

Writer-director Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire's film, Johnny Mad Dog, is not an easy watch but it drums home a lesson.. more |  Add your review 

 
Film The Cove

Dolphin friendly in The Cove

Cast in the form of a thriller, The Cove unites free-divers and other activists in the plot to uncover some fishermen's guilty secrets.. more |  Add your review 

 
Film Cirque du Freak

Cirque du Freak is a mess of it's own making

Cirque du Freak can never quite make up its mind whether it's about the circus or the vampires.. more |  Add your review 

 
Film Coffin Rock

Stalked by a psychopath in Coffin Rock

Coffin Rock is an Australian version of Fatal Attraction which is well-shot and directed, and more than decently acted.. more |  Add your review 

 
Film The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard

Bovine gags in horrendous The Goods

With a halfway decent screenplay and a director who is not Neal Brennan, gross-out comedy The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, might have worked.. more |  Add your review 

 
Film An Education

Carey Mulligan is a class act in An Education

An Education has its premiere tonight as part of the London Film Festival in the Vue West End... more |  Add your review 

 
 
 
 
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