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  • Eagle Eye (12A) **

    (Dir: D.J. Caruso, 2008, 117 mins) From the director and star of ‘Suburbia’ comes a surveillance porn thriller that stretches the genre to the outer limits of preposterousness and beyond. Slacker Jerry (Shia LaBouf) and…
    09.08.2010 READ MORE
  • Eagle Vs Shark (15) **

    (Dir: Taika Waititi, 2007, 93 mins) A relentless barrage of self-conscious quirkiness, Napoleon Dynamite’s Kiwi cousin makes a shameless bid for the nerdy loser demographic. Mousy, unpopular burger bar employee Lily…
    09.08.2010 READ MORE
  • East Is East (15) *****

    (Dir: Damien O’Donnell, 96 mins) Cast aside any prejudices you may have about the worthiness potential of its subject matter: this is the warmest, funniest homegrown crowd-pleaser of the year. For proud chip shop owner…
    09.08.2010 READ MORE
  • East-West (12) ***

    (Dir: Regis Wargnier, 121 mins) Eurostodge veteran Regis ('Indochine', 'Une Femme Francaise') Wargnier revisits a largely forgotten, shameful episode in Russian history for this lumpy, old-fashioned and occasionally…
    09.08.2010 READ MORE
  • Eastern Promises (18) ****

    (Dir: David Cronenberg, 2007, 100 mins) With the best naked wrestling scene since ‘Borat’, imaginative use of grim East End locations, and plenty of mano-a-mano throat-slitting and eye-gouging action, ‘Eastern Promises’…
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  • Easy A (15) ****

    (Dir: Will Gluck, 2010, 93 mins) It’s been a while since a film as smart and funny as this satirical reworking of ‘The Scarlet Letter’ was targeted at teenage girls. OK, so the notion that a high school girl losing her…
    26.10.2010 READ MORE
  • Easy Virtue (PG) ****

    (Dir: Stephan Elliott, 2008, 98 mins) Stephan (‘The Adventures of Priscilla…’) Elliott takes plenty of liberties with Noel Coward’s early play, most of which pay off in this enjoyable, handsomely staged period country…
    01.07.2010 READ MORE
  • Eat Drink Man Woman (PG) ****

    Aging widower and master chef Mr Chu is unable to communicate with his trio of rebellious, unmarried adult daughters, except by culinary means at his formal Sunday meals which the long-suffering offspring have come to…
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  • Eat Pray Love (PG) **

    (Dir: Ryan Murphy, 2010, 140 mins) You’ve read the book, you’ve booked the holiday, you’ve bought the themed sarong, perfume and prayer beads; now, for devotees still hungry for spin-offs associated with Elizabeth…
    16.08.2010 READ MORE
  • Echo Park, LA (15) ***

    (Dir: Richard Glatzer/Wash Westmoreland, 90 mins) A Latino coming of age yarn is perhaps an unlikely subject for a white gay couple to tackle, but Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland live in this neighbourhood of LA…
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  • Ed Gein (15) ***

    (Dir: Chuck Parello, 90 mins) Fifties serial killer Ed Gein's antics have inspired some of the best horror films ever made, from 'Psycho' to 'The Silence of the Lambs', via 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'. So the idea of…
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  • Ed Wood (15) *****

    Tim Burton's lovingly crafted biopic of the world's worst film-maker. Untainted by the merest hint of talent, Ed (Johnny Depp) embarks on a series of quite dreadful films with a retinue of fellow misfits. But it's his…
    09.08.2010 READ MORE
  • Eddie (12) ***

    (Dir: Steve Rash, 101 mins) A Whoopi Goldberg basketball comedy may not sound too enticing, but this isn’t as bad as it seems. She plays a loud-mouthed limo driver obsessed by the New York Knicks team, who are on…
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  • Eden Lake (18) ****

    (Dir: James Watkins, 2008, 91 mins) For the finest and most controversial British horror film of the year, first time director James Watkins takes his cue from the increasingly influential French flick ‘Them’,…
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  • Edge of Darkness (15) ***

    (Dir: Martin Campbell, 2010, 116 mins) Boston cop Tommy Craven (Mel Gibson) is devastated when his daughter Emma (Bojana Novajovic), whom he doesn’t know well, is shotgunned to death on his doorstep. Investigating her…
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  • Edge of Heaven, The (15) ****

    (Dir: Fatih Akin, 2007, 121 mins, subtitles) Turkish-German writer/director Fatih (‘Head-On’) Akin takes another left turn with this bold drama on a much larger canvas that adopts the now familiar Haggis/Inarritu…
    11.08.2010 READ MORE
  • Edge of Love, The (15) ***

    (Dir: John Maybury, 2008, 110 mins) One suspects there’s disappointment in store for fans of Keira Knightley’s period ‘Atonement’ turn John Maybury’s film about Dylan Thomas and the two women who loved him, which is…
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  • Edge, The (12) ***

    (Dir: Lee Tamahori, 117 mins) Scripted by David Mamet, this curious blend of stirring action-adventure and cerebral mind games defies easy categorisation, but it’s inevitably swallowed up by the breathtaking elemental…
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  • EDtv (12) ****

    (Dir: Ron Howard, 123 mins) 'EDtv' differs from the similarly themed ‘Truman Show’ in that from the outset its eponymous subject - beer-swillin', pool-playin' Texan video store clerk Matthew McConaughey - is all too…
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  • Education, An (12A) ***

    (Dir: Lone Scherfig, 2009, 100 mins) Easier to admire than it is to like, Danish director Lone Scherfig’s Nick Hornby-scripted adaptation of journalist Lynn Barber’s memoir of her teenage relationship with a 38-year-old…
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  • Edukators, The (15) ****

    (Dir: Hans Weingartner, 125 mins) Daniel (‘Good Bye Lenin!’) Bruhl stars in this enjoyable Austrian thriller, which achieves a rare balance between political provocation and nail-biting tension before a half-time…
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  • Eel, The (18) ***

    (Dir: Shohei Imamura, 117 mins) Shohei Imamura’s Palme D'Or winner is something of a hard sell. This is, after all, a two-hour subtitled film about a bloke whose bestest mate is his pet eel. The chap in question is…
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  • Eight Below (PG) ***

    (Dir: Frank Marshall, 120 mins) Disney’s hound-obsessed live-action department brings us another tale of doggy derring-do. Director Frank Marshall sets the scene with brisk efficiency as we’re introduced to the…
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  • Eight Legged Freaks (12) ****

    (Dir: Ellory Elkayem, 99 mins) If you took the view that ‘Tremors’ might have benefited by replacing the subterranean worms with enormous mutant spiders, ‘Eight Legged Freaks’ is very much the film for you. An amiable…
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  • Eighth Day, The (15) ***

    “The Belgian ‘Rain Man’” may not sound like an especially enticing prospect. And indeed this excessively saccharine confection isn’t, especially when measured against the standard set by director Jaco van Dormael’s…
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  • El Bano Del Papa (15) ****

    (Dir: Cesar Charlone & Enrique Fernandez, 2007, 98 mins, subtitles) It’s 1988 and the Pope’s coming to the dirt-poor town of Melo on the Uruguayan border with Brazil. Scheming local smuggler Beto (Cesar Troncoso)…
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  • El Bola (15) ***

    (Dir: Achero Manas, 80 mins) With a script straight out of the Ken Loach storybook and a pile of Goya awards (Spanish Oscars) to its credit, this assured first feature from Achero Manas is every bit as grim and worthy…
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  • El Bonaerense (15) ****

    (Dir: Pablo Trapero, 2003, 102 mins) What’s a petty criminal to do when he’s run out of options and has to leave town in a hurry? Join the police force, of course. Argentina’s economy might have collapsed, but the…
    13.05.2010 READ MORE
  • Election (15) ****

    (Dir: Alexander Payne, 103 mins) Alexander Payne's caustic political satire resonates far beyond its American high school setting, breathing new, vibrant life into the tired teen movie genre. Instead of privileging its…
    11.08.2010 READ MORE
  • Election (2006) (18) **

    (Johnnie To, 100 mins) Hong Kong action director Johnnie To’s ‘Election’ was entered for competition at Cannes, which means we’re looking at something altogether more solemn than his previous fare: the first part of a…
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  • Elegy (15) **

    (Dir: Isabel Coixet, 2008, 112 mins) Adapted from the third of Philip Roth’s David Kepesh novels by Nicholas Meyer, who did the same honours for the risible ‘The Human Stain’, and directed by Spaniard Isabel Coixet,…
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  • Elektra (12A) **

    (Dir: Rob Bowman, 98 mins) Jennifer Garner - star of popular TV series ‘Alias’ – plays the lead in a spin-off from ‘Daredevil’, in which she had an eye-catching supporting role. Just two problems: one, she died in…
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  • Elephant (15) ****

    (Dir: Gus Van Sant, 81 mins)  Gus Van Sant’s minimalist account of a Columbine-style massacre simply shows us what happens, without any moralising, politicking or glib attempts at explanation. There’s a bit of temporal…
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  • Elf (PG) **

     (Dir: John Favreau, 95 mins) Directed by John (‘Swingers’) Favreau, who brings together James Caan and ‘Saturday Night Live’ alumnus Will Ferrell, this promised a mild subversion of traditional festive fare. What it…
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  • Elisa (15) **

    When mum blows her brains out after trying to smother her daughter Vanessa Paradis to death, the kid winds up in care were she grows into a troubled adolescent obsessed with getting revenge on her unknown father: a…
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  • Elite Squad (18) ***

    (Dir: Jose Padilha, 2007, 115 mins, subtitles) It’s 1997, and the Pope’s planning a visit to Rio. To ensure the old boy gets a good night’s sleep, the local police chief hatches a plan to send his elite, black-clad BOPE…
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  • Elizabeth (15) ***

    (Dir: Shekar Kapur, 120 mins) Far from being cold and aloof, Cate Blanchett’s young Elizabeth I is a warm-blooded, high-spirited lass and – if the film-makers are to be believed – far from being a virgin. But once…
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  • Elizabeth: The Golden Age (12A) **

    (Dir: Shekhar Kapur, 2007, 114 mins) Inert, disjointed and unengaging, this belated, historically inventive sequel to Shekhar Kapur’s enjoyable ‘Elizabeth’ ranks as a major disappointment despite the best efforts of…
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  • Elizabethtown (12A) **

    (Dir: Cameron Crowe, 123 mins) Cameron Crowe’s trademark warm-heartedness has often paid rich dividends. But teetering on the edge of sentimentality can be a dangerous game. Sad to say, ‘Elizabethtown’ plummets over the…
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  • Ella Enchanted (PG) ***

    (Dir: Tommy O’Haver, 96 mins) A live-action fairytale that invites comparisons with ‘Shrek’ and ‘The Princess Bride’, this offers plenty of entertainment for kids and their long-suffering chaperones despite the plot and…
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  • Elling (15) ***

    (Dir: Petter Naess, 90 mins) Oscar-nominated ‘Elling’ is one of those films that the Europeans do so well but the Americans can’t resist serving up with an overpowering garnish of schmaltz. Petter Naess’s enjoyable…
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  • Eloge de L'Amour (PG) *

    (Dir: Jean-Luc Godard, 98 mins) Jean-Luc Godard’s needlessly dense, self-indulgent and often wilfully impenetrable mess is packed with references whose only purpose is to flatter the intellects of beard-stroking…
    11.08.2010 READ MORE
  • Emma (U) ****

    (Dir: Douglas McGrath, 120 mins) Despite the unpromising-sounding Regency society setting, with its long walks, needlework afternoons, myriad tea-parties - Jane Austen’s novel first appeared in 1816 and this adaptation…
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  • Emperor and the Assassin, The (12) ****

    (Dir: Chen Kaige, 161 mins) The most expensive Asian film ever made, Chen Kaige’s Kurosawa-esque epic is a sumptuous visual feast that engages the brain as well as the eye with a drama of Shakespearian proportions, a…
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  • Emperor's New Groove, The (U) ****

    (Dir: Mark Dindal, 78 mins) A Disney animation about a cocky emperor who gets turned into a llama might not sound enticing, so it's all the more surprising that this should turn out to be one of the best movies the…
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  • Emperor’s New Clothes, The (PG) ***

    (Dir: Alan Taylor, 106 mins) This slight and whimsical little period romantic comedy boasts Ian Holm as the emperor Napoleon – a role he’s played so often that he’s in danger of being typecast. The conceit is that…
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  • Empire Records (12) ***

    A cross between ‘Fame’ and one of those old “let’s put on a show” musicals, ‘Empire Records’ celebrates the triumph of the individual over faceless corporations as the eponymous family-run store resists a takeover from…
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  • Employee of the Month (12A) **

    (Dir: Greg Coolidge, 103 mins) Take Mike Judge’s cult workplace comedy ‘Office Space’, dumb it down and extract all the humour, and you’ve got ‘Employee of the Month’. Down at the giant Super Club discount warehouse,…
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  • Enchanted (PG) ***

    (Dir: Kevin Lima, 2007, 107 mins) This Disney kidflick does the familiar fairytale subversion thing, benefiting from a tremendously game central performance by Amy Adams. Perhaps surprisingly, it also mines the studio’s…
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  • Encounters at the End of the World (U) ***

    (Dir: Werner Herzog, 2007, 101 mins) Cranky old Werner Herzog heads for the Antarctic, bent on portraying those who live and work there as dreamers and eccentrics driven to seeking an isolated existence at the end of…
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  • End of Days (18) *

    (Dir: Peter Hyams, 122 mins) Satan has possessed city banker Gabriel Byrne in a toilet so as to track down and impregnate the girl (Robin Tunney) he marked at birth 20 years earlier. This he must do in the hour before…
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  • End of the Affair, The (18) ***

    (Dir: Neil Jordan, 108 mins) At the risk of enraging Graham Greene purists, there's something faintly risible about 'The End of the Affair' which even that titan of romantic torment Ralph Fiennes cannot quite surmount.…
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  • End Of Violence, The (18) ***

    (Dir: Wim Wenders, 117 mins) Wim Wenders returns to America for a meditation on movie violence. Sounds promising, eh? Except that he’s got nothing to say beyond a lot of not-especially-novel guff about high-tech…
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  • Enduring Love (15) ****

    (Dir: Roger Michell, 100 mins) A truly satisfying literary adaptation is a rare beast indeed, but Roger Michell pulls it off here by finding a suitable visual context for the themes of obsession and breakdown in Ian…
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  • Enemy at the Gates (15) ****

    (Dir: Jean-Jacques Annaud, 132 mins) As the battle of Stalingrad grinds on, morale is understandably low. So when intelligence officer Danilov (Joespeh Fiennes) comes upon heroic marksman Vassali Zaitsev (Jude Law), the…
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  • Enemy Of The State (15) ****

    (Dir: Tony Scott, 128 mins) Jerry Bruckheimer, now the world's most financially successful film producer, has made much of the supposed risks being taken with this political thriller, but it's no challenging Oliver…
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  • Enfants Du Paradis, Les (PG) *****

    Made in 1945 and often cited as Marcel Carne's masterpiece, the credit for this French cinema classic belongs equally to the three principal actors and screenwriter Jacques Prevert. Among the stalls, entertainments and…
    11.08.2010 READ MORE
  • Enfants du Siecle, Les (15) **

    (Dir: Diane Kurys, 108 mins) A rather turgid historical biopic, which elevates George Sand's (Binoche) on-off relationship with whoring, opium-guzzling, rock'n'roll poet Alfred de Musset (Benoit Magimel) to the status…
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  • English Patient, The (15) ****

    (Dir: Anthony Minghella, 166 mins)  A sweeping Wartime epic of love and tragedy, with passionate, cultured women, stiff-upper-lipped Colonial chaps in khaki shorts, an Oscar-friendly disability/disfigurement motif, and…
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  • Enigma (15) **

    (Dir: Michael Apted, 117 mins) Who'd have thought that such a key episode in Britain's war effort could be so dull? This true-ish tale of code-breaking boffinry at Bletchley Park's top secret Station X plods along with…
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  • Enough (15) *

    (Dir: Michael Apted, 115 mins) Juliette Lewis and Jennifer Lopez, playing a character called Slim (insert your own joke here), are a pair of Tinseltown’s least likely greasy spoon waitresses. Then J-Lo is swept off her…
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  • Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (15) ****

    (Dir: Alex Gibney, 109 mins) In condensing the Enron scandal into two hours, Alex Gibney simplifies matters and reduces the dramatis personae. Although the flurry of acronyms can still be confusing, this means you don’t…
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  • Enter the Void (18) ***

    (Dir: Gaspar Noe, 2010, 143 mins) French provocateur Gaspar Noe gives full rein to his Inner Hippy with the ultra-trippy ‘Enter the Void’, getting all ‘2001’ on our asses while delivering the explicit sex, violence and…
    16.09.2010 READ MORE
  • Entrapment (12) **

    (Dir: Jon Amiel, 112 mins) An indolent slice of ‘old-fashioned entertainment’ which plays like it could have been made in 1967 and would have been just as mediocre then. Here 69 year-old Sean Connery has a thing with 29…
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  • Envy (12A) *

    (Dir: Barry Levinson, 99 mins)  “Shit doesn’t just disappear,” opines Ben Stiller’s character in ‘Envy’. “It has to go somewhere.” To which it is tempting to retort that it winds up in the nation’s multiplexes two years…
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  • Epic Movie (12A) *

    (Dir: Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, 2007, 86 mins) Until next year’s ‘Scary Movie 5’, this is the state of the art in lazy, humourless opportunism pitched at 14-year-old morons. Ostensibly, a send up of, well, epic…
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  • Equilibrium (15) **

    (Dir: Kurt Wimmer, 106 mins) Borrowing cheerfully from ‘1984’, ‘Fahrenheit 451’, and, er, ‘The Wizard of Oz’, this cheesy futureshocker is set in the neo-fascist state of Libria where Big Brother figure Sean Pertwee …
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  • Eragon (PG) **

    (Dir: Stefen Fangmeier, 105 mins) An adaptation of Christopher Paolini’s bestseller set in a land where Dragon Riders once existed to keep the peace (let’s for the sake of simplicity, call them the Jedi), but one of…
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  • Eraser (18) **

    Arnie’s latest body count bonanza combines futuristic hardware with a plot that’s as old as the hills, and just as lumpy. This time he’s a member of an elite force within the Witness Protection Programme, who becomes a…
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  • Erin Brockovich (15) *****

    (Dir: Steven Soderbergh, 133 mins) Steven Soderbergh, the maestro of indie cool, makes a movie with Julia Roberts, who pockets $20 million for a study in working class resilience. Based on a true story, this has Roberts…
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  • Escape From LA (15) **

    When ‘Escape From New York’ was released in 1981, it had a freshness that belied its ramshackle narrative and uneven pacing, but after years of computer-generated effects and apocalyptic sci-fi, John Carpenter’s belated…
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  • Eskiya (The Bandit) (15) ***

    (Dir: Yavuz Turgul, 128 mins) When Baran the Bandit gets out of the slammer after 35 years, he finds he was set up by his best pal Berfo, who copped off with Top Mountain Village Babe Keje. Suitably outraged, the…
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  • Esma’s Secret (15) ***

    (Dir: Jasmila Zbanic, 95 mins) To forestall any potential disappointment, it ain’t much of a secret. Anyone with a basic grounding in Inspector Morse studies will have guessed the vital information that shoe factory…
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  • Essential Killing (15)

    (Dir: Jerzy Skolimowski, 2010, 84 mins) With its politically charged setting, one might anticipate that this will be veteran Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski's response to the 'War on Terror'. But 'Essential Killing'…
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  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (15) *****

    (Dir: Michel Gondry, 108 mins) Even the most vociferous champions of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s imaginative brilliance have never claimed that emotional depth was part of his creative palette. Until now. This…
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  • Eternity and a Day (PG) ***

    (Dir: Theo Angelopoulos, 132 mins) Glum old lefty poet Alexander (Bruno Ganz) is about to drop dead. But while rummaging through his papers, the doleful versifier comes across a love letter from his vivacious late wife…
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  • Etre et Avoir (U) ***

    (Dir: Nicolas Philibert, 104 mins) Dedicated, caring, infinitely patient and fully attentive to his diminutive charges’ individual needs, beardy Georges Lopez is the kind of fantasy pedagogue previously thought to exist…
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  • Eureka (15) ***

    (Dir: Shinji Aoyama, 217 mins) Shinji Aoyama's overlong epic begins violently as a psycho hijacks a bus for no obvious reason. After his killing spree is over, just three survivors remain: young brother and sister Kosue…
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  • Eurotrip (15) ***

    (Dir: Jeff Schaffer, 96 mins)  From the people who gave us ‘The Cat in the Hat’ comes another of those guy-pursues-gal teen road trip comedies in the style of, er, ‘Road Trip’. The modestly amusing twist here is that it…
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  • Evan Almighty (PG) *

    (Dir: Tom Shadyac, 2007, 95 mins) Steve Carell stepps up to take the lead role as Evan Baxter in this self-styled “faith comedy” sequel to ‘Bruce Almighty’. Bruce’s newsreader rival is now rapidly elected to Congress…
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  • Evelyn (PG) **

    (Dir: Bruce Beresford, 95 mins) A sugary, cliché-laden account of a case that made legal history in Ireland. The eponymous Evelyn is one of a trio of adorable tots fathered by part-time painter and decorator, part-time…
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  • Evening (12A) **

    (Dir: Lajos Koltai, 2007, 117 mins) This could be the most expensive TV movie ever made. All the starry names  - including two mother/daughter duos - certainly add ballast to this epic tale of whinging poshos, adapted…
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  • Evening Star, The (15) ***

    (Dir: Robert Harling, 129 mins) Writer-director Harling, who wrote the similarly sentimental ‘Steel Magnolias’ and  ‘The First Wives Club’, delivers a belated sequel to ‘Terms of Endearment’ that is less a cynical…
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  • Event Horizon (18) ***

    (Dir: Paul Anderson, 91 mins) It’s 2047 and Captain Laurence Fishburne and Dr. Sam Neill are sent to investigate the mysterious reappearance of the eponymous experimental ships which vanished with all hands seven years…
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  • Ever After (PG) **

    (Dir: Andy Tennant, 121 mins) Classic fairytales might not need to look like Disney cartoons with cute characters and singing interludes – charges that can’t be levelled at this ‘Cinderella’ update  - but like every…
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  • Everlasting Piece, An (15) ***

    (Dir: Barry Levinson, 103 mins) This whimsical tale, set in ‘80s Belfast, sees two chancers trying to corner the city's toupee market. Their day job, as barbers in a mental hospital, has brought them into contact with…
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  • Everybody’s Fine (12A) ***

    (Dir: Kirk Jones, 2009, 99 mins) Bristolian director Kirk Jones’s greatest achievement with ‘Everybody’s Fine’ is in locating Bob De Niro’s mugging dial and turning it down to acceptable levels. Bob plays Frank Goode, a…
    01.07.2010 READ MORE
  • Everyone Says I Love You (12) ***

    (Dir: Woody Allen, 91 mins) Boasting a typically impressive ensemble cast and arguably the Woodster’s slightest ever storyline, his 26th film casts Alan Alda and Goldie Hawn as a pair of wealthy New York liberals, with…
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  • Everything is Illuminated (12A) **

    (Dir: Liev Schreiber, 105 mins) Like the jaunty score by Ukrainian Gypsy Punk band Gogol Bordello, this debut feature from actor Liev Schreiber will either seduce you with its quirky humour and unabashed sentimentality,…
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  • Everything Put Together ***

    (Dir: Marc Forster, 89 mins) An ultra-low-budget digital video indieflick, featuring a terrific central performance from former ‘Neighbours’ star Radha Mitchell, this is an odd and rather frustrating experience which…
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  • Eve’s Bayou (15) ***

    (Dir: Kasi Lemmons, 106 mins) Young African-American woman directs emotionally complex self-penned indie debut with shit-hot all-African-American cast. “I was ten the year I killed my father,” intones the pre-adolescent…
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  • Evil Aliens (18) **

    (Dir: Jake West, 89 mins) Brit director Jake West’s belated follow-up to his dismal debut ‘Razor Blade Smile’ finds his craft showing little improvement. He’s clearly striving for the tone of Peter Jackson’s early,…
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  • Evil Woman (15) **

    (Dir: Denis Dugan, 90 mins) Dude comedy with Jason (‘American Pie’) Biggs, Steve Zahn and Jack Black as a trio of beer-bong-guzzling buddies whose collective arrested adolescence is threatened by bitch-from-hell…
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  • Evita (PG) ****

    (Dir: Alan Parker, 135 mins) Alan Parker’s screen version of the Andrew Lord Webber musical tells the rags-to-riches story of Eva Peron efficiently, more than once shrewdly suggesting career similarities between Eva and…
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  • Evolution (PG) ***

    (Dir: Ivan Reitman, 101 mins) Yup, it’s a cynical, mechanical attempt to rework the formula of director Ivan Reitman's 1984 hit ‘Ghostbusters’, with added elements of 'Men in Black', 'Tremors' and 'The Blob'. A meteor…
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  • Exam (15) ***

    (Dir: Stuart Hazeldine, 2009, 96 mins) Eight conservatively dressed, ethnically- and gender-balanced young aspiring corporate whores compete in a windowless room for a dream job with a Fortune 500 company. But when they…
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  • Excess Baggage (12) **

    (Dir: Marco Brambilla, 101 mins) Spoiled yet neglected rich brat Alicia Silverstone fakes her own kidnapping, binding herself in duct tape and awaiting rescue from the locked boot of her BMW. But – feeble movie…
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  • Executive Decision (15) **

    When the Americans capture the World’s Scariest Terrorist, they reckon without his even more deranged second-in-command, David Suchet, who hijacks a 747 full of ordinary American folks and demands the release of his…
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  • eXistenZ (15) ****

    (Dir: David Cronenberg, 97 mins) For an innovator like David Cronenberg to finally alight upon the computer games genre is initially a bit of a shock, but he brings to it a low-budget charm that harks back pleasingly to…
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  • Exit Through the Gift Shop (15) ****

    (Dir: Banksy, 2010, 87 mins) Tagged “the world’s first street art disaster movie”, Banksy’s directorial debut is a teasing documentary that offers a furtive tour d’horizon of the street art scene. His features hidden,…
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  • Exit Wounds (18) **

    (Dir: Andrzej Bartkowiak, 103 mins) Although billed as Steven Seagal's 'comeback' movie, this is bog standard thick-ear stuff, with exploding helicopters, multiple car wrecks, noisy shoot-outs, vicious fights and the…
    11.08.2010 READ MORE
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    11.08.2010 READ MORE
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    (Dir: Tom Vaughan, 2010, 106 mins) Bristol University graduate Tom Vaughan serves up a formulaic ailing nipper weepie that’s a perfect choice for anyone who wants to see a drearier ‘Lorenzo’s Oil’ with a different…
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    11.08.2010 READ MORE
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    USA 2011 129 mins Dir: Stephen Daldry Starring: Tom Hanks, Thomas Horn, Sandra Bullock, John Goodman, Max von Sydow, Viola Davis, Jeffrey Wright, Zoe Caldwell Awards season always brings a handful of shameful dreary…
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    11.08.2010 READ MORE
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    (Dir: David Moreau & Xavier Palud, 2008, 96 mins) French duo David Moreau and Xavier Palud, hot from impressive spooker ‘Them’, remake the Pang brothers’ Asian horror classic. But the result could have been churned out…
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    11.08.2010 READ MORE
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    (Dir: Kevin Macdonald, 2011, 114 mins) Kevin ('The Last King of Scotland') Macdonald's version of the alleged disappearance of the Roman Empire's entire Ninth Legion in the mountains of Scotland back in 117AD should, on…
    23.03.2011 READ MORE
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    (Dir: Rupert Wyatt, 2008, 102 mins) Despite a weird similarity to ‘Porridge’ in its dramatis personae, Brit writer/director Rupert Wyatt’s ambitious debut plunges us into a vividly depicted dilapidated and over-crowded…
    11.08.2010 READ MORE
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    (Dir: Scott Derrickson, 119 mins) There’s no doubt about it: Jennifer Carpenter gives great demonic possession. Her body contorts into seemingly impossible positions, the veins on her forehead pulse menacingly, and she…
    11.08.2010 READ MORE
  • The Expendables (15) **

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