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.

In its strident efforts to be historically plausible, this latest Robin Hood may do away with many past traditions, among them the whole robbing from the rich policy of past incumbents.

Timely thrills from troubled Argentina.

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

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.

Michael Winterbottom's newest movie has a promising premise but the film that results is all style in search of story.

Something you don't expect to see in yet another film about resistance heroism in Nazi-occupied Europe: a stagecoach chase.

Bloody, brainy and British - a superhero movie reinvented as gory comedy works out surprisingly well, writes Russell Baillie.

Tina Fey and Steve Carell strut their comedic abilities by taking this far-fetched story and turning it into an enjoyable laugh-out-loud comedy.

With its crude, tasteless humour set against an underlying sweet and heartfelt story, She's Out of My League is straight out of the Judd Apatow school of comedy, mixed with the buddy flick element of The Hangover.

An affair to remember.

Stock standard tear-jerker.

Be prepared for some tense scenes in Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker.

Nanny McPhee's back, wart and all.