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Fast & Furious 6

What more is there to say that couldn’t have been said in the preceding five films? Well, the answer is nothing really.

Though this version of Gatsby is full of jarring elements at first appraisal, the combination of a faithful script, high production values and excellent performances creates an absorbingly eccentric artistic statement. Whether it’s a statement you’ll relish is another matter: this is ‘Gatsby’ on a cocaine binge.

Star Trek Into Darkness

The second film in the rebooted Star Trek franchise, helmed by director JJ Abrams, is even more campy, all-guns-blazing, sci-fi fun than the first.

Hitchcock

If you’re looking for thrills, you’ll have more fun with watching Psycho itself. And if you want a glimpse of the psychology that drove the man, there’s always Vertigo.

Gangster Squad

Like a fedora-flecked post-war vision of Starship Troopers, Gangster Squad is about as politically correct as a punch in the kidneys.

Midnight’s Children

Metastasizing war, schisms of family to mirror the schisms of topography, lust, hunger, upheaval, religion, nuclear bombs, forced sterilization, annihilation, and love. And hope. And second chances.

Pitch Perfect

Pitch Perfect is scabrously funny without relying on post-modern references or descending into nastiness.

Great Expectations

Is it unfair—and pointless— to discuss a film in relation to other past adaptations, to judge it by what it’s not? But, on the other hand, do we need another version of Great Expectations?

Amour

With Amour, you will remember the film, and you will remember the emotions, and there will be no humiliation in the crying.

Ernest & Celestine

Gabrielle Vincent’s children’s books have been brought alive with the same painted tones and styles that first accompanied the series. It is a sweet, quaint and charmingly unusual animation.

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It Always Rains On Sunday

Though this classic Ealing drama may be rather slow going for a modern audience, there's a humanist understanding of those struggling along in uncelebrated roles...

The Landlord

The Landlord is a real race-relations curio; a social comedy that atomizes racial tension in a post-Sixties Brooklyn neighbourhood....

Salute

On the podium at the 1968 Mexico City Games, African-American 200m medallists Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists in a controversial ‘Black Salute’...

The Woman in Black

The kids and the fans will like The Woman in Black because Daniel does well. The adults have other reasons to enjoy it, if...

The Artist

It is an homage, it is a paean, it is a celebration: a behind-the-screen romantic comedy that fully embodies the glory and goofiness of a...

The Descendants

It is hugely satisfying to note that Clooney looks as ridiculous as the rest of us running flat-footed in sandals - and for this alone,...

The Change-Up

This age-old formula of screwing up each other’s existence then ‘discovering’ the missing elements of one’s personality is a well-trodden and patronising...