A Woody Allen romantic's tale where you need to throw out all expectations of realism and go along with the fantasy.

An Oscar-worthy, gripping yet harrowing film that had me tense throughout and drained at the end. Phew!

Director Roland Emmerich and writer John Orloff dip a quill in poison and stab Shakespeare in the back in this well made piece of revisionist history.

'In Time' is a science fiction thriller, that on paper works, but in its execution doesn't.

Drive is one of the most wonderful movies of this or any year, showing that not only is there endless life in a timeworn genre if you love it enough and know your stuff.

"Moneyball" may not hit a home run, but it's an interesting true story about the state of modern-day sports.

Anonymous is wonderful fun and a terrific movie, just don't mistake it for a coherent argument!

The romantic supernatural saga tips over into pure melodrama in its fourth installment, but surprisingly it's a better film than its predecessors.

...at the heart of all this is -a disastrously skewed mission that ends up with the three young agents and their prisoner trapped in an East Berlin flat, dumped by their own colleagues and the Americans...

Beware The Ides of March? Not unless you want to miss a cracking new Clooney film!

Miller spares us the heroics and gives us instead a real feeling for the way things are in the dressing rooms of pro sport the world over. And no anthems!

George Clooney returns to the directors chair, and delivers an entertaining drama about the darker side of politics.

Wildly jump cutting, flashing back and forward in time for no reason other than effect, Burning Man delivers a visceral movie experience that leaves you wondering if it had all run in normal linear order, it would have had much impact at all.

Director Garry Marshall and a host of famous faces throw out some bland and predictable confetti to usher in the new year.

Death-defying set pieces, first class production, and a great director makes this one of the best films in the action/spy series.

The Good, The Bad, The Ugly.

Could 2011's most touching love story be between a young man and his horse? Steven Spielberg delivers a cinematic tour de force that pay homage to good storytelling and classic cinema.

It's Holmes versus Moriarty in this lacklustre sequel that fails to add much to the detective-action franchise.

The Kid with a Bike is a spare film, with only two main characters and runs for only 88 minutes, but by the end we are so tense from watching the title character, Cyril (Thomas Doret), and his near disastrous progress through the film that when my mother and I have a minor drama in the car park that we become almost hysterical with laughter, so tightly wound has the story made us.

The Swedish bestseller makes its English-language film debut in a stylish and impressive work from David Fincher.

Ah, what more could the vanished, sweet child in us all want?

Martin Scorsese pays tribute to the cinema of the past with an outstanding 3D film that's both heartfelt and stunning.

Meryl Streep saves the day with an extraordinary performance in an otherwise disappointing biopic of the British PM.

The Descendants is no movie of the week weepie but a finely wrought piece of character observation, shot in a Paradise.

Clint Eastwood's biopic is easy to admire and features a great performance from Leonardo DiCaprio, but its central character still proves a tad elusive.

A sweethearted romantic Hollywood tale told with the affectation of being black and white and silent.

J. Edgar at its finest moments, is a mirror held up to America's ongoing and constant fear of The Other.

An Aussie RomCom from the Working Dog team, Any Questions For Ben? unfortunately isn't very funny and only slightly romantic.

The new film from the popular Working Dog team is lacking in genuine laugh-out-loud moments but succeeds with a sweet and charming story and performances.

Martha Marcy May Marlene is a tragedy carried out in broad daylight to the soundtrack of melancholy and haunting songs

It may be war, but there's just not enough spark in this action rom-com to make it satisfying.

Choppy dialogue is bookended with endless montages of scenic bits and pieces and, in the end, a plot as predictable as a champagne hangover.

It may be silent, but Michel Hazanavicius' creation has a wonderful voice and sings a song in celebration of cinema.

Don't forget your tissues for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - the tale of an odd and hurting 10 year old boy searching for meaning and connection after the death of his father on September 11

Buck succeeds as both a movie and a penetrating insight into a unique and inspiring man.

Morality tale or morally bunkrupt? This party film trashes everything in sight.

Michelle Williams is touching as the broken doll of a woman and Eddie Redmayne quintessentially boyish as Colin. But it all just doesn't ring true. So the myth remains intact.

Hollywood has had 100 years to make a movie about John Carter, but this big screen treatment is a mess from start to finish.

A Norwegian film based on the book by crime writer Jo Nesbo about a recruitment specialist with a chip on his shoulder and a sideline as an art thief.

Carnage is a brilliant study, superbly acted, of the thinness of our civilized strategies and the final failure of the language of good will and commonsense.

My goodness. The big screen comedy update of the popular 80s show is actually lots of fun.

Not just for Seniors - a fun film for all!

The trouble is that Coriolanus is such a one-note drama. Or melodrama. No wonder Bertholt Brecht decided back in the 1940s to write a new version.

Is The Hunger Games the new Twilight? All the kids are talking about this new teen dystopian future adventure.

The wildly popular young-adult novel makes its way to the big screen as a smart sci-fi with dark undertones.

It's a brilliantly constructed and mesmorising thriller, great filmmaking, wonderful acting and, at heart a dark moral fable that is all too dreadfully true!

It's a case of the battling therapists as Jung and Freud clash in David Cronenberg's thoughtful period piece.

A look at the birth of psychoanalysis and dark sexual desires which is unfortunately less spicy than required - hard to believe it's directed by David Cronenberg!

Everyone has a ball, for The Rum Diary is one of the truly great psychedelic movies of the modern era, a tribute to all involved.

This cold, fascinating meditation on a key moment in medical theory and its bizarre fallout is both a kind of intellectual puzzle and great filmmaking.