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Five of the Best...Films
  1. Strawberry And Chocolate
  2. Ice Age 3
  3. Sunshine Cleaning
  4. Rudo & Cursi
  5. Looking For Eric

Critics' Choice

Film

Derek Malcolm

quoteIt’s amazing to learn they did any research at all — unless it was into farting and foreskinsquote

Derek Malcolm Year One Theatre

Henry Hitchings

quoteThis will appeal to those who grew up with the book as well as to anyone seeking family-friendly entertainmentquote

Henry Hitchings Carrie's War Music

Rick Pearson

quoteWith a smile that splits her face, the frizzy-haired singer fills her songs with playfulness and wide-eyed wonderquote

Rick Pearson Regina Spektor

Reader reviews

Film

Russell. Hertfordshire

quoteIf you are feeling totally fed up with your lot at the moment with the economic squeeze - go see this filmquote

Sunshine Cleaning Theatre

Heather, London

quoteI thought this was an excellent, powerful production. The staging and acting were superb, it is well worth going to seequote

Observe The Sons Of Ulster Marching Towards The Somme Music

Debbie & Bill Holmes

quoteAbsolutely AMAZING show that went like a train for three hours solid and didn't waiver once!quote

Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band

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Am I Black Enough for You?

03.07.09

Göran Hugo Olsson’s documentary is a fan-like yet not too oleaginous tribute, with copious numbers to prove that Billy Paul was — and still is — a...
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Strawberry and Chocolate is still an important film

03.07.09

Made in 1994, when homosexuality was frowned upon in Cuba, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s film seems tamer now than it did.

Stupid plot lost in Red Mist

03.07.09

Red Mist's plot is total rubbish, and no amount of slick film-making can make you believe it is worth all the blood and gore we have to sit through.

The Ice Age goes 3D

03.07.09

Considering this is the third of the series, the makers of Ice Age 3 clearly still have some inspiration left.

Demented laughter and screams in Embodiment of Evil

03.07.09

José Mojica Marins’s outré Brazilian horror features cannibalism, torture by rats and/or spiders and hideous spectres augmented by plenty of blood.

Stranger in a small town in The Last Thakur

26.06.09

The Last Thakur, the debut film from Sadik Ahmed, is well shot and confidently acted.

Biblical bunkum in Year One

26.06.09

Year One, Jack Black's comedy road trip set in Old Testament times, fails to deliver the laughs.

Revenge and coming-of-age drama at ICA

26.06.09

The latest films in the ICA’s promotional season of New British Cinema are The Blue Tower and Dummy

Healing power of sisterhood in My Sister's Keeper

26.06.09

Jodi Picoult's controversial bestseller, My Sister's Keeper, provides the story on which this film is based.

Rudo Y Cursi sees funny side of footie

26.06.09

Carlos Cuarón’s footballing comedy Rudo Y Cursi s shows the beautiful game as a route out of poverty but also as constant prey for Mexico’s endemic...
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Russell Crowe as down-at-heel detective in Tenderness

26.06.09

In Tenderness Russell Crowe plays a down-at-heel detective with a desperately ill wife and a career going nowhere.

Smiles amid moody minimalism in Lake Tahoe

26.06.09

Lake Tahoe is funny as well as melancholy and assisted by cinematography from Alexis Zabe that is astonishingly beautiful and precise.

Watching Iranian women in Shirin

26.06.09

Shirin shows us a bevy of Iranian women watching an epic romance, presumably in the cinema, but allows us only their reactions to the soundtrack.

Who cares who wins the Transformers war?

19.06.09

The Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen plot is confusing and the characters are sketchy, but the deafening effects are mindblowing.

Musical monster played for laughs in Telstar

19.06.09

Nick Moran’s film, based on his West End musical, lives up to its description as the stranger-than-fiction story of Joe Meek in Telstar.

Two bright sparks at the ICA

19.06.09

Beyond the Fire and The Disappeared are two excellent British films at the ICA.

Pure entertainment in North by Northwest

19.06.09

The re-release of North by Northwest reiterates what an extraordinary director Alfred Hitchcock was.

A surreal and serious tone for Gigantic

19.06.09

Gigantic looks like an American version of Buñuel without the artistic wherewithal to be convincing.

Living it up in Las Vegas in The Hangover

12.06.09

Four men wake up in a hotel suite with a tiger in the bathroom, a baby in the closet, a bubble bath full of sex toys and a smouldering sofa

Rich and poor divide in New Town Killers

12.06.09

New Town Killers, Richard Jobson’s thriller, set in Edinburgh, is more than a chase movie.

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