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

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.

Killer thriller: A tasty policier starring Diane Kruger.

Get the tissues ready, Dear John is a quite deliberate tear-jerker.

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

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.

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.

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.

There are some lovely moments and funny sequences in this wacky satire about the use of psychics within the American military, but The Men Who Stare at Goats never quite reaches its potential to be a laugh out loud film or a sharp po

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The Karena family dynamics are captured on film.

The dancing sequences are sublime in Mao's Last Dancer.

Twilight star Robert Pattinson proves he's more than just every teenage girl's favourite vampire.

It's not just because of fancy 3D computer graphics that Tim Burton's Alice and Wonderland is the closest to what Lewis Carroll saw when he wrote the book.

On paper, it's hard to imagine Travolta and Rhys Meyers together, but on screen they have a nice thing going.