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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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Charlotte O'Sullivan

Film critic

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