Full disclosure: I am a complete sucker for films set in that broad sweep of land between Ulan Bator and the Caucasus.

Get Him to the Greek is very much a satire, taking the mickey out of the music industry in general.

This downbeat French family drama is so dated I had to check my watch to make sure I had not been transported back to the 1970s.

Seventies sitcom revisited.

Everyone's favourite ogre faces a midlife crisis in what might be the most serious Shrek movie of them all, writes Russell Baillie.

Good-hearted but occasionally clunky, this story traverses rather belatedly the same territory as mainstream films like The Visitor.

After the excesses of his epic World War I tale A Very Long Engagement, Jeunet seems to have to returned to the imaginative worlds of his earlier works.

On paper, The A-Team movie reads like an over the top, ridiculous and inane blockbuster.

This adaptation of Jay Parini's 1990 novel about the last year in the life of the great Russian novelist Count Leo Tolstoy is like a night at the theatre in London or New York.

Little beneath the clothes

In contrast to the teen-model stars of American romps, the kids look and act like real kids - and that's what makes the film so charming.

A big, ballsy, fun and instantly forgettable blockbuster.

The film becomes a worthy tribute to the stress-disordered veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but in the process it's drained of the intense dramatic life that distinguished the original.

A fictitious romance, real people sharing their experiences, and handmade cardboard puppets all come together charmingly in this unique documentary about love.

The film is inspired by the case of Alexia Gonzalez-Barros, a Spanish boy who died aged 14 in 1985 of cancer of the spine, and is still being considered for sainthood.

French writer and director Jennifer Devoldere's debut feature is a gentle transatlantic romance.

This imaginary 1972 meeting between poet W.H. Auden and composer Benjamin Britten is an absolute cracker.

With a script lacking in imagination and a predictable plotline, Letters to Juliet is quite simply overwhelmed by romantic cliches.

Much like last year's Shall We Kiss, director-actor Emmanuel Mouret's latest comedy is centred on the question of infidelity.

Bullock is the force driving this film, she's sassy and funny, interfering and determined...

The single man is George Falconer, an expatriate Englishman teaching at a Los Angeles college, and struggling to find a purpose to life after the sudden death of his long-time partner.

Avoiding the obvious, French producer Emmanuel Benbihy assembles some striking mainly young talents in the Big Apple for a sequel portmanteau film to Paris, Je T'Aime.

The new film by Japanese writer-director Kore-eda is an exquisitely slow and finely calibrated study of a family.

Deft but downbeat, this drama is a classy piece of work thanks to a wonderfully deglamorised title-role performance by the lustrous de France.

The sequel to the movie that raised Robert Downey jnr's star stocks to an all-time-high, arrives just two years after the original.

In an attempt to be this year's answer to The Hangover, Hot Tub Time Machine is another "guys gone wild" comedy.

This prickly philosophy flick is overly cute, writes Peter Calder.

Gaylene Preston's family tale is a touching Kiwi wartime classic, writes Peter Calder.

The most intriguing thing about this romantic comedy is how it managed to attract such a good cast.