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Five of the Best...Films
1. Tulpan
Remarkable romantic comedy set among a nomadic tribe in Kazakhstan.
2. An Education
Nick Hornby's sensitive adaptation of journlaist Lynn Barber's excellent memoir of her first boyfriend.
3. The White Ribbon
Michael Hameke's Palme d'Or winner at Cannes is set in a German village just before the start of the First World War.
4. 2012
Roland Emmerich's thrilling apocalypse movie with John Cusack as the hero.
5. Fantastic Mr Fox
Wes Anderson’s take on Roald Dahl is full of quirky magic — with a sly George Clooney voicing Mr Fox.

Critics' Choice

Film

Andrew O'Hagan

quoteAn awesome and ridiculous film that leaves you thrilled beyond the point of your natural endurancequote

Andrew O'Hagan 2012 Theatre

Fiona Mountford

quoteThe show has suddenly become quite wonderful, and the galvanising factor is the terrific stage debut of Melanie Cquote

Fiona Mountford Blood Brothers Music

John Aizlewood

quoteThe British pop music industry may be eating itself but if Muse are the pick of what it can offer the world in 2010 then British music is in rude health indeedquote

John Aizlewood Muse

Reader reviews

Theatre

Rachel Dalziel

quoteI was smitten by both Gilberts enormous luxuriant moustache and the intelligence and nuance of this highly entertaining playquote

Gilbert Is Dead Restaurants

Raja, London

quoteI totally recommend Babbo to anyone who is looking for really good and traditional Italian foodquote

Babbo Music

Katy, London

quoteAlways been a fan but never seen them live. I was ecstatic to be part of this epic event. WOW!quote

Muse

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Sensitivity in The Sea Wall

20.11.09

The Sea Wall is culled from Cambodian director Rithy Panh's own experiences as a young woman in the French Indo-China of the Thirties

Manchan shows desperate plight

20.11.09

With some gusto, Manchan tells the astonishing true story of a group of illegal immigrants

A Serious Man makes comedy out of a crisis

20.11.09

Joel and Ethan Cohen's A Serious Man isn't just a comedy - the serious edge of human enquiry is there too

Family issues in First Day Of The Rest Of Your Life

20.11.09

This smash hit at the French box office, The First Day Of The Rest Of Your Life, is an extended portrait of an ordinary family, sketched out over 12...
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The imperfect spy in The Informant!

20.11.09

Steven Soderbergh's ironic, beautifully acted comedy, The Informant! is based on the story of one of the highest-ranking whistleblowers in American...
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Family friction in Glorious 39

20.11.09

British period pieces are regularly mocked as pretty pieces of cinema devoid of real bite. But you couldn't call Stephen Poliakoff's first film for...
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Lala Pipo is jaunty but not erotic

13.11.09

There's a talking penis in Miyano Masayuki’s comedy, Lala Pipo, and a bevy of sex-starved young people who wander sex clubs in search of fulfilment

Love The Beast is a modest film

13.11.09

You would have to love Eric Bana and his souped-up old racer to appreciate Love The Beast

Story of Amelia lacks passion

13.11.09

Hilary Swank plays Amelia Earhart with a great big smile and looks a treat in her flying outfits

Michael Caine cleans up in Harry Brown

13.11.09

Sir Michael Caine's central performance in Harry Brown is as impressive as anything he has recently done

Taking Woodstock is not Ang Lee's finest

13.11.09

Ang Lee's attempt to put the Swinging Sixties on the screen with love, respect and a dash of humour in Taking Woodstock is a distinct disappointment

Much warmth for Cold Souls

13.11.09

Paul Giametti plays a neurotic actor trying to get through rehearsals for Chekhov's Uncle Vanya in director Sophie Barthes's debut, Cold Souls

The White Ribbon is an unholy masterpiece

13.11.09

Michael Haneke's tale of mysterious events in a deeply religious village, The White Ribbon, digs deep into the soul

Eccentric life in We Live In Public

13.11.09

If you want to know how we arrived at Facebook and Twitter, take a look at Ondi Timoner’s extraordinary documentary, We Live In Public

Comedy and camels in Tulpan

13.11.09

Sergei Dvortsevoy has made not only one of the most charming films of the year in Tulpan, but also a skilful study of nomadic life that remains in the...
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Romance in Paper Heart

06.11.09

You will find cheaply made American independent docudrama Paper Heart, charming or faintly irritating

1 Day is impressively non-moralistic

06.11.09

Made on the unlovely streets of Birmingham, 1 Day has been labelled the first British hip-hop musical

Enjoy a thrill ride with A Christmas Carol

06.11.09

Robert Zemeckis's A Christmas Carol is splendidly mounted and visually imaginative animated 3D version of the classic novel

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

06.11.09

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.

High school vampire teasing in Jennifer's Body

06.11.09

Jennifer's Body, starring Megan Fox, is no ordinary splatter movie but one written by Diablo Cody, who penned Juno

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