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Strangers claims to be true

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:31:02 GMT

A good-looking, sophisticated, if somewhat pointless addition to the slasher-horror genre, Strangers claims to be based on true events.

Babylon AD is bad copy

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:59:52 GMT

Mathieu Kassovitz's Babylon AD is a low-budget rip-off of Blade Runner, The Matrix series, The Fifth Element and even Bond.

Daylight Robbery not stealing the show

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:59:52 GMT

Fortysomething Paris Leonti, one-time driver for the stars, has had to wait a long time to make his first feature; Daylight Robbery.

Badlands is like complex Bonnie and Clyde

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:59:52 GMT

The superb performances from Sheen and Spacek are as memorable as Malick's vision of something akin to hell in Badlands.

Too much of a good thing for Triangle

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:29:03 GMT

Triangle is made confusing not only by the twisting plot but by the varied styles of the three cult directors.

Ben X has ambition

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:29:03 GMT

Belgian director Nic Balthazar's debut feature, Ben X, has the excellent Greg Timmermans as an autistic young man who is badly bullied.

Sakuran is a real feast for the eyes

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:58:02 GMT

The courtesan world of 17th-century Japan is lushly and often erotically summoned up in Mika Ninagawas Sakuran.

Burn After reading is latest Coen installment

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:58:02 GMT

Oh brother, Burn After Reading is a fun new Joel and Ethan Coen movie that's going down a storm with the critics. Brad's even got comedy hair.

Angel is purple prose at the movies

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:26:59 GMT

François Ozon's attempt to make an English-speaking period piece in Angel strains credulity, says Derek Malcolm.

Village people in Times and Winds

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:56:04 GMT

Times and Winds, Reha Erdem's film about three children growing up in a remote Anatolian village, has an impressive edge to it.

Likeable losers in The Wackness

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:56:04 GMT

Ben Kingsley and Josh Peck make a convincing duo as a frustrated slacker and his shrink in Nineties New York.

Hard but happy lives in Somers Town

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:22:50 GMT

Somers Town, the tale of friendship between a Nottingham runaway and a lonely expat Pole, comes in at a trim 72 minutes.

Step Brothers is brilliant no-brainer, dude

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:22:49 GMT

Some American critics are offended by Judd Apatows crude comedy of losers but it really is, like, totally funny.

Slice of nostalgia in Face Addict

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:43:11 GMT

Face Addict is a rather mournful but quite reverberant slice of nostalgia about photographer Edo Bertoglio

Terrible racket on the road

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:43:11 GMT

A cast featuring Martin Lawrence and Donny Osmond mug their way through in College Road Trip

Too much action, not enough wit

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:43:11 GMT

Get Smart is a slightly disorganised romp starring Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway, but there is still some laughter to be had

All hell is let loose

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:43:11 GMT

Guillermo del Toro's imagination runs wild in Hellboy II: The Golden Army, a terrific summer superhero movie full of humour and invention

Spielberg had his targets set on Bond

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:38:25 GMT

Hollywood heavyweight Steven Spielberg once had ambitions to direct a James Bond film, according to a tell-all new memoir by Roger Moore.

The mother of all sex scenes

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:48:36 GMT

Many critics found Savage Grace brittle and pretentious, but thanks to word of mouth it is still showing at the Curzon Soho after six weeks.

The mother of all sex scenes

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:33:02 GMT

Many critics found Savage Grace brittle and pretentious, but thanks to word of mouth it is still showing at the Curzon Soho after six weeks.

Hard life in Little Box of Sweets

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:44:39 GMT

If Little Box of Sweets lacks the power of real drama it doesnt stint on the difficulties a peasant girl probably still faces.

Miss Pettigrew isn't done justice

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:44:38 GMT

Bharat Nalluri's Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, taken from the book by Winifred Watson, ought to have been better than it is.

Jimmy Carter is Mr Nice Guy

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:13:35 GMT

Jimmy Carter is portrayed as a man it is impossible not to like, even if you think he was a weakish one-term commander-in-chief.

Wild Child is strictly for schoolgirls

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:13:35 GMT

It may be manna for teen girls but any kind of critical eye will find Wild Child about as convincingly made as the last St Trinians movie.

Bad hair day for smutty Sandler

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:11:28 GMT

The worst thing about You Don't Mess with the Zohan is the feeble sexual innuendos with which Adam Sandler saddles himself.