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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

Andrew O'Hagan

quoteJohnny Depp has become, in his young middle age, like a star of the movies’ golden periodquote

Andrew O'Hagan Public Enemies Music

André Paine

quotethis was a triumph of eye-popping production and exhausting choreographyquote

André Paine Madonna Theatre

Fiona Mountford

quoteIf his smug stage persona is tricky to warm to, his skill, and the snappiness of Andy Nyman’s direction, are spot-onquote

Fiona Mountford Derren Brown

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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Film Johnny Deep

Johnny Depp's gangster is rapped in Public Enemies

Johnny Depp plays Dillinger with his customary charm but director Michael Mann's film Public Enemies never quite nails the legendary criminal’s character... more |  Add your review 

 
Film Ice Age 3

The Ice Age goes 3D

Considering this is the third of the series, the makers of Ice Age 3 clearly still have some inspiration left... more |  Add your review 

 
Film Arielle Kebbel

Stupid plot lost in Red Mist

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... more |  Add your review 

 
Film Billy Paul

Am I Black Enough for You?

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 singer who really had something... more |  Add your review 

 
Film Strawberry and Chocolate

Strawberry and Chocolate is still an important film

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

 
Film Embodiment of Evil

Demented laughter and screams in Embodiment of Evil

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

 
Film Sunshine Cleaning

Sunshine Cleaning is the sleeper hit of the summer

Emily Blunt and Amy Adams make smalltown family drama Sunshine Cleaning a funny and refreshing antidote to the usual seasonal blockbusters... more |  Add your review 

 
Film Year One

Biblical bunkum in Year One

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

 

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Film Abigail Breslin and Cameron Diaz in My Sister's Keeper

Healing power of sisterhood in My Sister's Keeper

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

 
Film Shirin

Watching Iranian women in Shirin

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... more |  Add your review 

 
Film Rudo Y Cursi

Rudo Y Cursi sees funny side of footie

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 corruption... more |  Add your review 

 
Film The Last Thakur

Stranger in a small town in The Last Thakur

The Last Thakur, the debut film from Sadik Ahmed, is well shot and confidently acted... more |  Add your review 

 
Film The Blue Tower

Revenge and coming-of-age drama at ICA

The latest films in the ICA’s promotional season of New British Cinema are The Blue Tower and Dummy .. more |  Add your review 

 
Film Russell Crowe in Tenderness

Russell Crowe as down-at-heel detective in Tenderness

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

 
Film Lake Tahoe

Smiles amid moody minimalism in Lake Tahoe

Lake Tahoe is funny as well as melancholy and assisted by cinematography from Alexis Zabe that is astonishingly beautiful and precise... more |  Add your review 

 
Film Transformers

Who cares who wins the Transformers war?

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

 
Film Katyn

Katyn is story the world has been waiting to hear

Truth is the star of Andrzej Wajda's masterly telling of the Russian massacre of 20,000 Polish officers during the Second World War in Katyn... more |  Add your review 

 
Film Bruno premiere

First review: Bruno is gay, offensive ... and very funny

Sacha Baron Cohen's new film Bruno is funnier, more offensive, and more outrageous than Borat and the collected output of Ali G put together.. more |  Add your review 

 
Film Telstar: Heinz Burt was plucked from obscurity by Joe Meek to be a member of the Tornados

Musical monster played for laughs in Telstar

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... more |  Add your review 

 
 
 
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