http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/film/rss-clean/ Film reviews and news from the Evening Standard and London cinema listings with times. http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/film/film-23375292-details/The+Men+Who+Stare+At+Goats/filmReview.do 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. http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/film/film-23375211-details/Bright+Star/filmReview.do Jane Campion's Bright Star is full of confidence about its artistic vision and genuinely poetic, says Andrew O'Hagan http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/film/film-23375660-details/Jennifer%27s+Body/filmReview.do Jennifer's Body, starring Megan Fox, is no ordinary splatter movie but one written by Diablo Cody, who penned Juno http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/film/film-23375183-details/1+Day/filmReview.do Made on the unlovely streets of Birmingham, 1 Day has been labelled the first British hip-hop musical http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/film/film-23375796-details/A+Christmas+Carol/filmReview.do Robert Zemeckis's A Christmas Carol is splendidly mounted and visually imaginative animated 3D version of the classic novel http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/film/film-23375308-details/Paper+Heart/filmReview.do You will find cheaply made American independent docudrama Paper Heart, charming or faintly irritating http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/film/film-23375194-details/An+Education/filmReview.do An adaptation of journalist Lynn Barber's memoir of her days as a suburban schoolgirl brilliantly captures the spirit of its age in An Education. http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/film/film-23375335-details/Tales+From+The+Golden+Age+%28Amintiri+Din+Epoca+De+Aur%29/filmReview.do Written by Cristian Mungiu, this portmanteau film has five stories, each helmed by a different but unnamed Romanian director, which comment on the surreal and comic urban myths of the time - most of which are substantially true http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/film/film-23375053-details/Love+Exposure/filmReview.do If you can stand its length, this winner of the International Critics’ Prize at the Berlin Film Festival - Love Exposure - has some extraordinary things in it http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/film/film-23375643-details/Dead+Man+Running/filmReview.do If you think Rio Ferdinand’s form on the football field has suffered lately, it could be that he has been fretting about his cockney crime caper Dead Man Running http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/film/film-23371730-details/The+Horseman/filmReview.do Steven Kastrissios's debut has Peter Marshall as a devastated father seeking bloody revenge in The Horseman http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/film/film-570871-details/Citizen+Kane/filmReview.do Made by Orson Welles at the tender age of 25 in 1941, Citizen Kane is certainly the most stunning debut film http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/film/film-23375692-details/Nowhere+Boy/filmReview.do What a pleasure, and what a fitting end to an excellent 53rd London Film Festival. Sam Taylor-Wood's film about John Lennon's teenage years is a moving and accomplished debut http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/film/film-23375623-details/This+Is+It/filmReview.do This Is It shows Jackson centre stage throughout, always moving, often singing and sometimes looking like he is genuinely enjoying himself. http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/film/film-23375241-details/Fantastic+Mr.+Fox/filmReview.do Director Wes Anderson chooses homemade kookiness over CGI trickery for his take on Roald Dahl’s classic Fantastic Mr Fox — the result is charming. http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/film/film-23369434-details/Johnny+Mad+Dog/filmReview.do Writer-director Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire's film, Johnny Mad Dog, is not an easy watch but it drums home a lesson http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/film/film-23375553-details/The+Cove/filmReview.do Cast in the form of a thriller, The Cove unites free-divers and other activists in the plot to uncover some fishermen's guilty secrets http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/film/film-23375550-details/Cirque+Du+Freak%3A+The+Vampire%27s+Assistant/filmReview.do Cirque du Freak can never quite make up its mind whether it's about the circus or the vampires http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/film/film-23374335-details/Coffin+Rock/filmReview.do Coffin Rock is an Australian version of Fatal Attraction which is well-shot and directed, and more than decently acted http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/film/film-23375560-details/The+Goods%3A+Live+Hard%2C+Sell+Hard/filmReview.do With a halfway decent screenplay and a director who is not Neal Brennan, gross-out comedy The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, might have worked http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/film/film-23375194-details/An+Education/filmReview.do An Education has its premiere tonight as part of the London Film Festival in the Vue West End.