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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

quoteNew Moon is nothing if not an international advertisement for the hungry virtues of virginity and young people can’t get enough of itquote

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Henry Hitchings

quoteA smart, prickly and rewarding view of sexual and emotional confusionquote

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David Sexton

quoteKitchen W8 is a bargain for this area, if such sophistication is what you crave quote

David Sexton Kitchen W8

Reader reviews

Film

Adam, Harrow

quoteToo long and drawn out but very entertaining with excellent special effectsquote

2012 Theatre

Rob, London

quoteThis is a peculiar play and does not work for me. Some of it is very funny but there are real flawsquote

The Habit Of Art Music

Bernard, London

quoteAlex has a strong powerful voice and was faultless, she is far better now than she was on the X-Factorquote

Alexandra Burke

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Cert: 12A

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Dir: Joshua Michael Stern. Cast: Kevin Costner, Madeline Carroll, Paula Patton, Kelsey Grammer, Dennis Hopper, Nathan Lane, Stanley Tucci


Description: While the rest of his countrymen and -women go to the polls, factory worker Bud Johnson seeks out his favourite bar stool. In despair, his precocious 12-year-old daughter Molly secretly votes in his place only for the electronic ballot to be spoilt by a technical glitch. His verdict, it transpires, will break the political deadlock between Republican incumbent, President Andrew Boone, and charismatic Democratic challenger Donald Greenleaf. A media circus decamps outside Bud's trailer front door in the dustbowl town of Texico, New Mexico, as the rival campaigns beg for Bud's vote.

Country: US. 2008. 120mins

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