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An Ideal Husband (PG) ***
(Dir: Oliver Parker, 100 mins) A happily married, rising politician with a dodgy past. An opportunistic adventuress who knows where the bodies are buried. A trysting cad who weaves a tangled web of lies to protect his…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
I Am Legend (15) **
(Dir: Francis Lawrence, 2007, 100 mins) Three years after a scientist unfortunately named Dr Krippin, and played in a weirdly ill-judged comic cameo by Emma Thompson, has unleashed ‘a viral cure for cancer’, military…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
I Am Love (15) **
(Dir: Luca Guadagnino, 2009, 120 mins, subtitles) A seven-year labour of love for director Luca Guadagnino and star Tilda Swinton, who showcases her breasts and impeccable Italian and Russian accents, this resembles a…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
I Am Number Four (12A)
(Dir: D.J. Caruso, 2010, 110 mins) This first product off the conveyor belt from a new factory for best-selling multi-media franchises aspires to a Potter-Twilight scale of success, but is just a midlist genre movie in…23.02.2011 READ MORE -
I Am Sam (12) ***
(Dir: Jessie Nelson, 132 mins) "You're not like other daddies," observes seven-year-old Lucy Dawson (Dakota Fanning) of her single father Sam (Sean Penn). Indeed not; a Beatles-fixated Starbucks cleaner, he has the same…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
I Capture The Castle (PG) ***
(Dir: Tim Fywell, 112 mins) Dodie (‘101 Dalmatians’) Smith’s little-remembered semi-autobiographical novel is handsomely adapted by award-winning (‘Madame Bovary’) TV director Tim Fywell for his feature debut. When…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
I Could Read the Sky (15) **
(Dir: Nichola Bruce, 86 mins) A brave, resolutely uncommercial art movie of the pre-Lottery old school, this is an ambitious attempt to capture on film the tone of an acclaimed "photo novel" by Timothy O'Grady and Steve…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
I For India ***
(Dir: Sandhya Suri, 2005, 70 mins) Newly qualified as a doctor, Yash Suri and his wife Sheel left India for the UK in 1965. The first thing he did on arrival in the north of England was to buy two super 8 cameras, two…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
I Heart Huckabees (15) ***
(Dir: David O. Russell, 106 mins) A classic audience-divider if ever there was one, David O. Russell’s surreal and audacious “existential comedy” takes a trip into Charlie Kaufman territory but offers rather more ammo…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
I Know What You Did Last Summer (18) ***
(Dir: Jim Gillespie, 101 mins) A pair of mildly dislikable, vacuous American teen couples are driving back to town half-drunk when they accidentally mow someone down. They decide the most expedient solution to their…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
I Love A Man In Uniform (18) ****
Nerdy bank clerk Tim McCamus lands the role of tough cop Flanagan in the cheesy TV show 'Crimewave'. But McCamus has The Method real bad. Soon he's strutting through the streets of Toronto in his police uniform,…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
I Love You Phillip Morris (15) ***
(Dir: Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, 2009, 97 mins) Part con flick, part gay romance, part audience-baiting black comedy and all Jim Carrey, this reworking of a semi-true story by the guys behind that heart-warming…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
I Love You, Beth Cooper (15) *
(Dir: Chris Columbus, 2009, 102 mins) After setting up its strong premise, this feeble teencom struggles to find a consistent tone, being unsure whether it wants to pursue the ‘American Pie’ grossout route or strain for…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
I Love You, Man (15) ***
(Dir: John Hamburg, 2009, 105 mins) Fed up with endless nuptially-themed romcoms? How about a nuptially-themed bromcom? That’s as in ‘bromance’ – a painful neologism for heterosexual male friendship. Estate agent Peter…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (12A) *
(Dir: Dennis Dugan, 2007, 115 mins) If you thought Adam Sandler had reached a nadir with his spectacularly ill-judged 9/11 comedy ‘Reign Over Me’, think again. Lothario Chuck (Sandler) and conveniently widowed Larry…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed (12A) **
(Dir: Serge Le Peron, 101 mins) All the trappings of the espionage thriller are here. There are crossings, double-crossings and a global political conspiracy. What’s more, this is based loosely on a real-life political…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
I Shot Andy Warhol (18) ***
(Dir: Mary Harron, 103 mins) Rock journalist-turned director Harron’s overly sympathetic biopic of Valerie Solanas, the bonkers ‘60s radical feminist now best remembered as the woman who plugged Mr. Pop Art. An…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
I Spy (12A) **
(Dir: Betty Thomas, 96 mins) A decidedly dated entry in the much-spoofed action-comedy spy genre, which turns out to be neither especially funny nor thrilling. The increasingly cauliflower-faced Malcolm McDowell assumes…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (18) **
(Dir: Danny Cannon, 100 mins) A thin and lazy sequel, this equips surviving cast member Jennifer Love Hewitt with some new disposable chums for hook-handed deceased fisherman Ben Willis to slaughter, packing them all…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
I Want Candy (15) ***
(Dir: Stephen Surjik, 2007, 85 mins) An amiable British attempt to muscle in on the ‘American Pie’ market, this recycles the old ‘amateurs getting into the porn game’ plot that we haven’t seen since last year’s ‘The…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
I Want You (18) ***
(Dir: Michael Winterbottom, 87 mins) Alessandro Nivola gets out of jail after nine years and returns to the desolate seaside town of Haven, where his girlfriend Rachel Weisz is now hanging out with DJ Bob, while down by…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
I Went Down (15) ****
(Dir: Paddy Breathnach, 108 mins) No sooner is young Peter McDonald out of prison than he gets embroiled in a fight with the henchmen of established crim Tony Doyle and finds himself obliged to make amends by driving to…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
I'm Still Here (15)
(Dir: Casey Affleck, 2010, 107 mins) After much speculation, Casey Affleck confessed that this artless sub-'Borat' verite documentary about his brother-in-law Joaquin Phoenix was a fake. In this light, 'I'm Still Here'…24.11.2010 READ MORE -
I, Robot (PG) ***
(Dir: Alex Proyas, 115 mins) Having devised the supposedly watertight three laws of robotics to govern robot behaviour and keep humans safe from harm, Isaac Asimov devoted himself to dreaming up special circumstances in…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
I.O.U.S.A. (U) ***
(Dir: Patrick Creadon, 2008, 84 mins) ‘I.O.U.S.A.’ has been described as 2008’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’. It certainly steals a striking trick from the Al Gore film in its use of graphs that show manageable variation…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Ice Age (U) ***
(Dir: Chris Wedge, 80 mins) As ice grips the landscape and the prehistoric beats start their great trudge south, lazy, annoying, big-mouthed Sid the sloth (John Leguizamo) is left behind. After a couple of scrapes, he…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (U) ***
(Dir: Carlos Saldanha & Mike Thurmeier, 2009, 94 mins) We’re back in the age of mammals, picking up on the fairly annoying characters and their running jokes from the first two Ice Age movies, then plunging from the…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Ice Age: The Meltdown (U) **
(Dir: Carlos Saldanha, 90 mins) Apart from the welcome absence of humans, the sequel turns out to be a pale retread of the first movie, with the old beasts and a handful of new ones embarking on another epic, episodic…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Ice Storm, The (18) *****
(Dir: Ang Lee, 112 mins) The astonishing thing about this adaptation of Rick Moody’s acerbic novel is how expertly Taiwanese director Ang Lee captures its many culturally specific textures and nuances. It’s 1973 and the…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Identity (15) ****
(Dir: James Mangold, 90 mins) A bunch of mismatched folks – limo driver John Cusack, tart-with-a-heart Amanda Peet, tough cop Ray Liotta and his psycho prisoner Kane Busey, etc – are trapped by a storm in a remote…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Idiots, The (18) *****
(Dir: Lars Von Trier, 117 mins) Under the ascetic auspices of Dogma 95, 'Breaking the Waves' director Lars Von Trier delivers a complex and involving piece of film-making with ambitions that go beyond cosy reinforcement…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Idlewild (15) ***
(Dir: Bryan Barber, 121 mins) A period gangster musical drama seems an unlikely vehicle for hip hop’s finest – OutKast’s Andre Benjamin and Antwan Patton. The latter pretty much steals it as Rooster, married but…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
If Only (15) ***
(Dir: Maria Ripoli, 93 mins) After 'Sliding Doors' and 'Martha . . .’ comes yet another film with a “what if?” theme. Boorish actor Douglas Henshall regrets dumping his psychologist girlfriend Lena Headey when she’s…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Igby Goes Down (15) *****
(Dir: Burr Steers, 97 mins) If you need a soundbite for this year’s smart, mordantly witty, leftfield US indie treat, try “‘Catcher in the Rye’ directed by Wes Anderson”. Writer/director Burr Steers’ caustic, quotable…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Ignorant Fairies (15) ***
Dir: Ferzan Ozpetek, 110 mins) Following the sudden death of her husband, unworldly, middle-class Margherita Buy discovers that he’d been having a passionate affair for the previous seven years. Determined to find out…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Igor (PG) **
(Dir: Tony Leondis, 2008, 87 mins) What on earth were they thinking? This CGI animation squanders a promising premise so comprehensively that you can’t help wondering what Tim Burton might have done with it. Instead, we…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Il Divo (15) ***
(Dir: Paolo Sorrentino, 2008, 118 mins, subtitles) Italian speakers and those with a keen grasp of the country’s 20th century politics are likely to get most out of this biopic of Giulio Andreotti (Toni Servillo), the…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Il Postino (U) ****
(Dir: Michael Radford, 100 mins) Based loosely on a real-life incident in the life of exiled, Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (Philippe Noiret), who was offered sanctuary by the Italian government on an…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Illusionist, The (PG) ****
(Dir: Neil Burger, 2006, 109 mins) The ‘Usual Suspects’-style closing flourish is unlikely to come as a complete surprise, but this is no cheap one-trick-pony of a popcorn movie; it’s a meticulously staged,…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Imagine Me and You (12A) **
(Dir: Ol Parker, 94 mins) It’s the old story: boy meets girl, boy marries girl, girl runs off with lesbian lover. If you’re prepared to endure Richard Curtis-lite – an impression underlined by Matthew Goode’s seemingly…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Imagine That (PG) *
(Dir: Karey Kirkpatrick, 2009, 107 mins) In this year’s crappy Eddie Murphy ‘family comedy’, he plays that most evil of Hollywood villains, the Bad Dad. Naturally, Eddie is about to be taught a family values lesson of…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Import/Export (18) ****
(Dir: Ulrich Seidl, 2008, 141 mins, subtitles) Ulrich Seidl’s bleak follow-up to his excellent ‘Dog Days’ is an undeniably brilliant piece of film-making, the Austrian director’s eye for an artful composition in the…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Importance of Being Earnest, The (U) **
(Dir: Oliver Parker, 97 mins) Where Oliver Parker’s ‘An Ideal Husband’ had spark, this Oscar Wilde revamp splutters. It’s one of Wilde’s wittiest plays and all of his bon mots are present and correct. So where did this…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Impostor (15) **
(Dir: Gary Fleder, 95 mins) Adapted from a story by the late, great Philip K. Dick, 'Impostor' was originally conceived as a taut short film for an aborted sci-fi portmanteau, but has now been padded out with a lot of…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
In a Better World (15)
Denmark 2010 118 mins Subtitles Dir: Susanne Bier Starring: Mikael Persbrandt, Markus Rygaard, William Johnk Nielson The Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film is always a bit of a lottery. Sometimes those notoriously…19.08.2011 READ MORE -
In and Out (12) ***
(Dir: Frank Oz, 91 mins) An amiable, inoffensive comedy, based on Tom Hanks’s Oscar acceptance gush for ‘Philadelphia’, during which he inadvertently outed his former drama teacher. Down in Greenleaf, Indiana, English…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
In Bruges (18) ****
(Dir: Martin McDonagh, 2008, 107 mins) Superficially, the year’s least enticingly titled film appears to be an entry in the overpopulated gorblimey gangster cycle. Fortunately, playwright-turned-debuting director Martin…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
In Crowd, The (12) **
(Dir: Mary Lambert, 104 mins) Barking teen sexpot Lori Heuring is unleashed from the nuthouse to work at a posh South Carolina beachside country club, also populated by toned models wearing virtually nothing and tanned…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
In Darkness (15)
Poland/Germany/France/Canada 2011 144 mins Subtitles Dir: Agnieszka Holland Starring: Robert Wieckiewicz, Benno Furmann, Agnieszka Grochowska Rarely has a film been more aptly titled than this necessarily murky,…16.03.2012 READ MORE -
In Dreams (18) ***
(Dir: Neil Jordan, 99 mins) Neil Jordan's articulate thriller takes us - once more - into the mind of a killer. From familiar territory he fashions some memorable images, influenced as so often before by fairy tales and…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
In Good Company (PG) ***
(Dir: Paul Weitz, 109 mins) This office-based comedy looks promising enough, but writer/director Paul (‘About a Boy’) Weitz’s script - especially the problematically soft-hearted third act – deals in broad strokes when…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
In Her Shoes (12A) ***
(Dir: Curtis Hanson, 130 mins) Siblings Rose (Toni Collette) and Maggie (Cameron Diaz) couldn’t be more different. Overweight, Princeton-educated, workaholic attorney Rose is the ugly duckling. Maggie is an unemployed,…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
In Love and War (15) *
(Dir: Richard Attenborough, 115 mins) If ever a film was killed by its casting, this is it. Dickie Attenborough asks us to believe Chris O’Donnell, the fresh-faced Boy Wonder himself, as the young Ernest Hemingway in a…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
In Memory of Me (U) **
(Dir: Saverio Costanzo, 2007, 118 mins, subtitles) A long, slow, contemplative art movie with religious overtones, Saverio Costanzo’s drama teases its audience with an intriguing set-up but cops out of supplying any…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
In My Father’s Den (15) ***
(Dir: Brad McGann, 128 mins) This latest contribution to the Antipodean cinema of smalltown misery and thwarted ambition never seems quite sure whether it wants to be a low-key character study or a plot-driven…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
In Search of a Midnight Kiss (15) **
Dir: Alex Holdridge, 2007, 100 mins) Writer/director Alex Holdridge’s no-budget talky twentysomething indie romcom steals its premise from Richard Linklater’s ‘Before Sunrise’ and the execution apes Woody Allen’s…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
In the Bedroom (15) ****
(Dir: Todd Field, 138 mins) Todd Field’s accomplished debut recalls the tone of the recent low key US triumph 'You Can Count On Me', although its storyline is a little more problematic. On the scenic coast of Maine,…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
In The Bleak Midwinter (15) *
You might think that a film written and directed by Kenneth Branagh about the trials of actors rehearsing for a production of Hamlet would be a self-indulgent, cringeworthy luvviefest. And that's a reasonably accurate…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
In the City of Sylvia (PG) **
(Dir: Jose Luis Geurin, 2008, 85 mins, subtitles) An awful lot of grand claims have been made on behalf of this decidedly old-school, self-styled “homage to cinema, painting, love and women”. But for every viewer who…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
In The Company of Men (18) **
(Dir: Neil LaBute, 93 mins) America’s most controversial ishoo movie of 1998 has two white collar execs passed over for promotion and dumped by their girlfriends making a pact to seduce and dump the first…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
In the Cut (18) *
(Dir: Jane Campion, 119 mins) Having painted herself into a romcom corner, Meg Ryan takes the popular gritty realism route to reinvention, peeling off both slap and clothes as dowdy, dark-haired New York English…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
In The Hands of the Gods (15) **
(Dir: Gabe & Benjamin Turner, 2007, 100 mins) How far would you go to meet your hero? Last year, five urban British teenage freestyle footballers went to Argentina to seek out mutual inspiration and role model, Diego…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
In the Loop (15) ****
(Dir: Armando Iannucci, 2009, 106 mins) Yes, this is simply an expansion of Armando Iannucci’s lauded political satire, ‘The Thick of It’, which makes no concessions whatsoever to the big screen format. But it’s also…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
In the Mood for Love (PG) ****
(Dir: Wong Kar-Wai, 98 mins) This is the story of an affair. But there's no furious shagging, big emotional showdowns or boiled pets here. That's partly because the film focuses entirely on the delicate, sensual…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
In the Shadow of the Moon (U) ****
(Dir: David Sington, 2007, 100 mins) Brit David Sington’s stirring celebration of the achievements of NASA’s astronauts who landed on the moon has been embraced enthusiastically by patriotic Yanks who like to recall an…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
In The Soup (15) ****
Spurned by his beautiful neighbour Jennifer Beals (yes, she of 'Flashdance' fame!) and hassled for rent by his malevolent landlords, destitute aspiring auteur Steve Buscemi puts his hugely pretentious script up for…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
In the Valley of Elah (15) ****
(Dir: Paul Haggis, 2007, 121 mins) Paul Haggis’s flawed drama could have done with a little less cheesy Stars’n’Stripes symbolism and the portentous Biblical allegory implied by the title, and a rather more explicit…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
In This World (15) ****
(Dir: Michael Winterbottom, 89 mins) Michael Winterbottom’s gripping refugee docu-drama succeeds in putting faces to those depressing statistics recited over the opening scenes without ever succumbing to cheap and…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
In Too Deep (18) **
(Dir: Michael Rymer, 93 mins) One of those "why bother?" movies that you feel you've seen a hundred times before, 'In Too Deep' is slickly directed and reasonably well acted but adds precisely nothing to a well-worn…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
In Your Hands (15) ***
(Dir: Annette K. Olesen, 101 mins) This latest film to bear the Dogme 95 seal of cinematic purity expands on the grief theme common to so many Dogme flicks to explore the limits of religious faith. Sullen blonde Kate…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
In-Laws, The (12A) ***
(Dir: Andrew Fleming, 98 mins) A remake of the 1979 Peter Falk/Alan Arkin movie, upping the ante and budget for a new generation, this utterly mainstream piece of studio tosh passes the time reasonably well. Albert…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Incendiary (15) *
(Dir: Sharon Maguire, 2008, 100 mins) Poorly cast, absurdly plotted and dismally executed, this atrocious, ill-advisedly genre-hopping Britflick sets out to push all those Topical Relevance buttons with a massive…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Incendies (15)
Canada/France 2010 131 mins Subtitles Dir: Denis Villeneuve Starring: Lubna Azabal, Melissa Desormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette, Remy Girard, Abdelghafour Elaaziz In present day Montreal, twins Jeanne (Desormeaux-Poulin)…24.06.2011 READ MORE -
Inception (12A) *****
(Dir: Christopher Nolan, 2010, 148 mins) Christopher Nolan brains-up the blockbuster with this wholly original, intelligent science fiction heist movie that works through the ramifications of its internal logic…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Incognito (15) *
(Dir: John Badham) Jason Patric’s a master art forger who has decided to jack it in and go legit. But then – and stop me if you’ve heard this one before – he’s persuaded to do One Last Job: bashing out a Rembrandt for…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Inconvenient Truth, An (U) ***
(Dir: Davis Guggenheim, 98 mins) There’s no doubting the commitment with which former US presidential candidate Al Gore now pursues his anti-Global Warning agenda. ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ is based upon the PowerPoint…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Incredible Hulk, The (12A) **
(Dir: Louis Leterrier, 2008, 112 mins) Pare away all the pompous guff that’s been spouted by Edward Norton and others about this, ahem, ‘reboot’ and you’ll find it’s the same old crap: much hardware is trashed, feeble…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Incredibles, The (U) *****
(Dir: Brad Bird, 121 mins) Previous Pixar offerings were kids’ films that grown-ups would like. ‘The Incredibles’ is almost the opposite; witty action-entertainment from which you must not feel excluded if you don’t…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Incredibly True Adventure of 2 Girls In Love, The (15) ***
After a chance meeting, seventeen-year-old New Jersey high school outcast Randy Dean falls for Evie. The two girls couldn’t be more dissimilar: Evie’s black, rather naïve, has a wealthy professional mom and enjoys…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Independence Day (12) ****
After years of big-budget, mainstream SF movies with no real feel for the genre, ‘Stargate’ director Roland Emmerich and his scriptwriting partner Dean Devlin deliver an entertaining, star-free $70 million Alien…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Indian in the Cupboard, The (PG) ***
The Hollywood version of Lynne Reid Banks's popular children's story is best suited to the kind of pre-teen audience whose demands extend no further than a film being in colour, in focus and over quite quickly - but…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (12A) ****
(Dir: Steven Spielberg, 2008, 124 mins) The success of the latest Indiana Jones extravaganza is not down to director Steven Spielberg, and certainly not David Koepp's wayward script. All the plaudits should go to its…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Infamous (15) ****
(Dir: Douglas McGrath, 118 mins) In the great Truman Capote biopic race, ‘Infmaous’ had the misfortune to come in second to ‘Capote’. But there’s a quick-witted crackle about this one. Above all, Toby Jones’s Capote is…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Infernal Affairs (15) ****
(Dir: Andrew Lau/Alan Mak, 97 mins) Soon to be remade in the US by Martin Scorsese with Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead roles, this is a film that already has one foot in the American cop thriller tradition.…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Infidel, The (15) **
(Dir: Josh Appignanesi, 2010, 105 mins) It’s not hard to see the appeal of the story. Mahmud, a modern British Muslim, discovers that – before his adoption – he had been born a Jew. With Omid Djalili in the lead, and…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Initial D: Driftracer (12A) **
(Dir: Andrew Lau/Alan Mak, 109 mins) This adaptation of a popular Manga comic took more money in Hong Kong than ‘War of the Worlds’ and ‘Batman Begins’ combined. Over here, it’s difficult to imagine the film appealing…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Inkheart (PG) ***
(Dir: Iain Softley, 2008, 106 mins) This adaptation of German author Cornelia Funke’s children’s book drafts in a raft of top English character actors to support likeable Brendan Fraser, although the result feels a bit…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Inland Empire (15) *****
(Dir: David Lynch, 2006, 180 mins) Even attempting to describe the ‘story’ of David Lynch’s new film is an exercise in frustration since it shuffles through differing levels of reality and features people transforming…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Innocence (15) ****
(Dir: Lucile Hadzihalilovic, 115 mins) You might expect the directorial debut of a regular collaborator with arch-provocateur Gaspar (‘Irreversible’) Noe to gleefully transgress all boundaries of taste and decency,…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Innocent Sleep, The (15) ***
It's not often you see a British film as handsomely staged as this. Sweeping dolly shots and lustrous widescreen cinematography signal an admirable determination to put every penny of the meagre #1.5 million budget up…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Innocent Voices (12A) ***
(Dir: Luis Mandoki, 120 mins) Hollywood syrupmeister Luis Mandoki returns to his native Mexico for the first time in nearly 20 years to direct a civil war drama based on the childhood experiences of screenwriter Oscar…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Inside Deep Throat (18) ****
(Dir: Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato, 90 mins) Anyone who’s familiar with the extraordinary ‘Deep Throat’ story will be pleased to find that Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato cover just about all the bases in this…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Inside I’m Dancing (15) ***
(Dir: Damien O’Donnell, 104 mins) Yet another of those ‘inspirational’ films in which able-bodied actors pretend to be disabled, usually in pursuit of awards. Michael (Steven Robertson) has cerebral palsy and a…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Inside Job (12A)
(Dir: Charles Ferguson, 2011, 109 mins) There's none of the laziness of modern documentary film-making here; no presenter-led 'personal journey' that patronising producers imagine Twitter-crazed, channel-zapping modern…16.02.2011 READ MORE -
Inside Man (15) ***
(Dir: Spike Lee, 129 mins) Four masked figures walk into a New York bank and take the staff and customers hostage, forcing them to dress in outfits identical to themselves. Despite being investigated over missing drugs…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Insider, The (15) ****
(Dir: Michael Mann, 155 mins) Michael Mann's controversial film takes the odd liberty with the facts, but there’s is no doubting the essential truth of his account. Broadly, the story goes like this: tenacious…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Insidious (15)
USA 2011 102 mins Dir: James Wan Starring: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Lin Shaye, Ty Simpkins Having more or less invented the torture porn genre with 'Saw' (though they're not to blame for any of the sequels),…29.04.2011 READ MORE -
Insomnia (15) ****
(Dir: Erik Skjoldbjaerg, 97 mins) A film noir that takes place in relentless daylight, Erik Skjoldbjaerg's debut feature is a bold and riveting thriller. Top Swedish homicide detective Jonas Engstrom and his partner…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Insomnia (US) (15) ****
(Dir: Christopher Nolan, 118 mins) Christopher Nolan follows the brilliant ‘Memento’ with a remake of a little-seen 1998 Norwegian psychological thriller. There’s no room for narrative innovation here, but working from…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Inspector Gadget (U) *
(Dir: David Kellogg, 80 mins) Based on an American cartoon series, this Disney live-action film has Matthew Broderick as a peachy-keen security guard who’s badly injured during a break-in on the inventor's lab he's been…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Instinct (18) *
(Dir: Jon Turteltaub, 123 mins) A pompous, indigestible blend of 'The Silence of the Lambs', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' and 'Gorillas in the Mist'. Anthony Hopkins is a dishevelled primatologist who’s charged…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Intacto (15) *****
(Dir: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, 109 mins) Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s strikingly original and extraordinarily accomplished directorial debut delivers two of what are certain to become the year’s biggest cinematic talking…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Intermission (18) ****
(Dir: John Crowley, 106 mins) A big hit in Ireland, theatre director John Crowley’s striking DV feature debut is an interconnected multiple narrative ensemble comedy-drama which, despite including a bus crash,…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
International, The (15) ***
(Dir: Tom Tykwer, 2009, 118 mins) Inspired by revelations about the Bank of Credit & Commerce International, this topical thriller arrives after that scandal has been eclipsed by more bad news and audiences know more…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Interpreter, The (15) ****
(Dir: Sydney Pollock, 119 mins) Sydney Pollock’s strongest suit has been the political thriller. His third go at the genre is in many ways evocative of ‘The Manchurian Candidate’, but keeps you so tightly wound in to…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Intimacy (18) **
(Dir: Patrice Chereau, 119 mins) Famed for offering the first genuine blow-job ever legally seen on British cinema screens, Patrice Chereau’s adaptation of two stories by Hanif Kureishi also delivers lots of glum,…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Intimate Relations (15) ***
(Dir: Philip Goodhew, 99 mins) Based on a true story, Philip Goodhew’s directorial debut takes a peek behind the chintz curtains of ‘50s England to find solidly middle class Julie Walters doing good works in the…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Intimate Strangers (15) ***
(Dir: Patrice Leconte, 104 mins) Patrice Leconte describes ‘Intimate Strangers’ as a “sentimental thriller”, which is odd because it is neither thrilling nor particularly sentimental. For the most part, it’s a chamber…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Into Eternity
(Dir: Michael Madsen, 2010, 85 mins, subtitles) Here's a haunting must-see for those self-styled Greens who claim to have undergone a Damascene conversion to the joys of nuclear power as a 'clean' energy source. As…05.01.2011 READ MORE -
Into Great Silence (U) ***
(Dir: Philip Groning, 162 mins) After nearly 20 years of negotiations, German film-maker Philip Groning became the first person permitted to film the Carthusian Order who reside in the Grande Chartreuse, high in the…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Into the Abyss (12A)
Germany/Canada 2011 107 mins Dir: Werner Herzog Fun-loving German director Werner Herzog has spent most of his career peering into one abyss after another. This time he ventures into 'In Cold Blood' territory in…30.03.2012 READ MORE -
Into the Blue (15) **
(Dir: John Stockwell, 110 mins) This is a handsomely photographed, competently constructed thriller with morally conflicted heroes, scenery-chewing bad guys and hints of both ‘Jaws’ (rubbery sharks) and ‘Blue Planet’…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Into the Wild (15) ****
(Dir: Sean Penn, 2007, 148 mins) Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch) was a bright and privileged 22-year-old who cut off all ties to his upper-middle-class family, gave away his savings and took off on a two-year…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Intolerable Cruelty (12A) *****
(Dir: Joel Coen, 100 mins) A deliciously dark, laugh-out-loud screwball comedy, packed with typically Coen-esque oddball characters, droll wordplay, and plentiful film-nerd references that aren’t permitted to interrupt…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Intruder, The (15) **
(Dir: Claire Denis, 126 mins) Those who were charmed by lauded French director Claire Denis’s most acclaimed film, ‘Beau Travail’, should be warned that ‘The Intruder’ achieves new levels of wilful opacity, or, if you…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Invasion, The (15) **
(Dir: Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2007, 99 mins) Oliver (‘Downfall’) Hirschbiegel’s troubled reworking of ‘Invasion of the Bodysnatchers’ was called in for rewrites and reshooting before being released without any press…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Inventing the Abbotts (15) ****
(Dir: Pat O’Connor, 106 mins) An intelligent and moving drama based on a short story by Sue Miller, this tale of love across the barriers of social class and self-conscious teenage angst avoids easy answers and glib…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Invention of Lying, The (12A) **
(Dir: Ricky Gervais and Matthew Robinson, 2009, 99 mins) In an alternate universe, the human race has not evolved the ability to tell an untruth – which means there’s no such thing as religion. Then some synapse sparks…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Invictus (12A) **
(Dir: Clint Eastwood, 2009, 133 mins) Clint Eastwood delivers a rare duffer in the form of this painfully respectful, solemn and formulaic Nelson Mandela biopic. Morgan Freeman gets to radiate nobility in a variety of…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Invincible (12) **
(Dir: Werner Herzog, 128 mins) Werner Herzog’s dispiritingly inept return to narrative filmmaking after a decade of documentaries sees poor old Tim Roth languishing in a cast of amateurs which includes an accomplished…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Involuntary (15)
(Dir: Ruben Ostlund, 2008, 97 mins, subtitles) The theme of this bleak Swedish black comedy of social embarrassment and peer pressure is established when a young primary school teacher conducts psychologist Solomon…01.12.2010 READ MORE -
Iraq in Fragments (12A) ****
(Dir: James Longley, 2006, 94 mins, subtitles) It takes a while to become accustomed to these vivid images of day-to-day life in Iraq, beautifully photographed by American film-maker James Longley, which make a stark…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Iris (15) **
(Dir: Richard Eyre, 91 mins) Juxtaposing the beginning of a youthful Iris Murdoch's writing career and her romance with academic, bumbling, soulmate John Bayley with the final years of mental decline, this deeply…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Irma Vep (15) ***
(Dir: Olivier Assayas, 96 mins) Washed-up auteur on the verge of a nervous breakdown Jean-Pierre Leaud decides to remake Louis Feuillade’s 1915 silent serial ‘Les Vampires’, with Chinese martial arts actress Maggie…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Iron Giant, The (U) ****
(Dir: Brad Bird, 86 mins) Witty, sophisticated and determinedly retro, unsullied by comedy animals or crap songs, and even boasting a good old-fashioned, mildly subversive pacifist message, Warners’ animated adaptation…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Iron Ladies (15) ****
(Dir: Youngyooth Thongkonthun, 104 mins) The first Thai film ever to get a UK release boasts a story so unlikely that it can only be true. Back in 1996, a motley crew of gays, transvestites and transsexuals from Lampung…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Iron Maiden: Flight 666 (15) ****
(Dir: Sam Dunn & Scot McFadyen, 2009, 112 mins) Iron Maiden frontman and airline pilot Bruce Dickinson’s self-described “mad idea” was to attempt something that had never been done before: fly his entire band and all…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Iron Man (12A) ***
(Dir: Jon Favreau, 2008, 126 mins) For ferrous newbies, a smartly humorous flashback introduces Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr), a cynical, glib, hard drinking, womanising billionaire industrialist genius whose company…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Iron Man 2 (12A) ***
(Dir: Jon Favreau, 2010, 125 mins) This is a slick, expensive follow-up to an unexpected hit, so all that original anti-arms industry stuff is barged aside as the First Law of Sequels kicks in: same as before, only…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Ironclad (15)
(Dir: Jonathan English, 2010, 121 mins) There's no denying the admirable ambition of this independently-funded British movie, which aims audaciously for the panoramic sweep of ‘El Cid’ or ‘The Vikings’, but falls a long…02.03.2011 READ MORE -
Irreversible (18) ****
(Dir: Gasper Noe, 99 mins) 2003’s most controversial sex’n’violence shocker is a brilliant piece of film-making. There are three assaults in ‘Irreversible’. In the first, a man is beaten repeatedly about the head with a…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Is Anybody There? (12A) ***
(Dir: John Crowley, 2009, 94 mins) Young Bill (‘Son of Rambow’) Milner goes back to the ‘80s and easily holds his own opposite Michael Caine in a rather predictable if pleasingly morbid drama. Resentful ten-year-old…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Island, The (12A) ***
(Dir: Michael Bay, 136 mins) A pair of residents of a highly regimented future society smell a rat and decide to flee the safety of their cocoon to find out what the supposedly contaminated outside world is really like.…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Isn't She Great (15) **
(Dir: Andrew Bergman, 93 mins) Bette Midler stars in a fictionalised version of the life of Jacqueline Susann, writer of the Sixties sleazo megaseller 'Valley Of The Dolls', which lifted the lid on pill-popping…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
It All Starts Today (12) **
(Dir: Bertrand Tavernier, 118 mins) Life is grim in the small town of Hernaing in Northern France, where the pits of Zola's 'Germinal' have long since closed, leaving misery, mass unemployment and grinding poverty.…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
It Might Get Loud (PG) ***
(Dir: Davis Guggenheim, 2009, 98 mins) An unlikely choice of follow-up to ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, Davis Guggenheim’s latest documentary is a portrait of three guitarists. Unfortunately, his film is hamstrung by its…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
It Takes Two (PG) *
(Dir: Andy Tennant, 100 mins) A romantic comedy showcase for American network TV faves the nine-year-old near-identical Olsen twins. Mary-Kate plays a Manhattan orphan living in a children’s centre under the care of…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
It's A Boy/Girl Thing (12A) ***
(Dir: Nick Hurran, 94 mins) As anyone familiar with the body swap comedy genre will know, these involve changing places with someone who annoys you and conclude with soul-searching messages about discovering things in…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
It's All About Love (18) **
(Dir: Thomas Vinterberg, 105 mins) Dogme co-founder Vinterberg returns five years after ‘Festen’ with hisfirst English-language offering, which is as what-the-fuck baffling as it is intellectually artful. It begins…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Italian For Beginners (15) ****
(Dir: Lone Scherfig, 108 mins) The first Dogme movie made by a female director has also been hailed as the collective's first romantic comedy. Initially the plot seems completely straightforward: a group of disparate…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Italian Job, The (12A) ***
(Dir: F. Gary Gray, 110 mins) If you’re going to derive any pleasure from this sacrilegious remake of the revered sixties Brit caper flick it’s probably best to forget all about the original. Its American producers seem…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
It’s A Wonderful Afterlife (12A) **
(Dir: Gurinder Chadha, 2010, 100 mins) The police are baffled by a spate if Indian food-related slayings, but we know the perpetrator is cardie-wearing Southall widow Mrs Sethi (Indian cinema legend Shabana Azmi), who…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
It’s All Gone Pete Tong (15) *
(Dir: Michael Dowse, 90 mins) Coming on like a dance music ‘Spinal Tap’, this turns out to be a bizarre, uncomfortable mix of sledgehammer mockumentary and, er, inspirational disability drama. At 38, Frankie Wilde (Paul…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
It’s Complicated (15) ***
(Dir: Nancy Meyers, 2009, 118 mins) It’s not complicated, really. It’s demographics – a rom-com skewed towards the late middle-aged in the way other films are aimed straight at fourteen-year-olds. The premise is that…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
It’s Winter (12A) ***
(Dir: Rafi Pitts, 85 mins, subtitles) A suitably gloomy seasonal offering from British-educated director Rafi Pitts, ‘It’s Winter’ presents a more hard-hitting and realistic depiction of everyday life among the poor and…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
ivans xtc (18) ****
(Dir: Bernard Rose, 92 mins) Bernard Rose takes his revenge on Hollywood with this loose adaptation of ‘The Death of Ivan Ilych’, which is also based transparently on the life of top Hollywood agent Jay Moloney, a…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Ivul (15) **
(Dir: Andrew Kotting, 2009, 101 mins, subtitles) • Maverick Brit director Andrew Kotting’s semi-autobiographical yarn is set in the French Pyrenees. At the country home of the Russian expat Ivul clan and their vaguely…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
I’m a Cyborg (15) **
(Dir: Chan-wook Park, 2006, 107 mins, subtitles) ‘Oldboy’ director Chan-wook Park comes over all self-consciously quirky with a slight, offbeat romcom that wears out its welcome very quickly indeed. In a transistor…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
I’m Going Home (PG) **
(Dir: Manoel De Oliveira, 89 mins) At the grand old age of 93, Portuguese director Manoel De Oliveira earned some of the most rapturous reviews of his career for this portrait of a young whippersnapper of a thesp…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
I’m Gonna Explode (15) ***
(Dir: Gerardo Naranjo, 2008, 103 mins, subtitles) A Mexican lovers-on-the-lam flick that steals liberally from Godard’s ‘Pierrot Le Fou’, this is directed with not a little verve, which initially helps it over its…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
I’m Not There (15) ***
(Dir: Todd Haynes, 2007, 136 mins) In this ambitious, tricksy attempt to come to terms with the many faces of Bob Dylan, Todd Haynes casts various performers, from young black kid Marcus Carl Franklin to Cate Blanchett,…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
I’ve Loved You So Long (12A) ***
(Dir: Philippe Claudel, 2008, 117 mins, subtitles) Effectively an extended Oscar pitch for Kristin Scott Thomas - who scrapes off the slap to play a haunted character with deeply internalised emotions, and all in…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
The Ides of March (15)
USA 2011 101 mins Dir: George Clooney Starring: George Clooney, Ryan Gosling, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Evan Rachel Wood, Marisa Tomei Politicians and their campaign teams are duplicitous, scheming,…31.10.2011 READ MORE -
The Inbetweeners Movie (15)
Crude, lewd and unbelievably excruciating. Essentially one long, plot-less episode of pratfalls, scatological one-liners, relentless barrages of expletives and hapless attempts at achieving sexual identity, the same…19.08.2011 READ MORE -
The Interrupters
USA 2011 164 mins Dir: Steve James A sprawling, artlessly constructed documentary from the director of 1994's Oscar-nominated 'Hoop Dreams', 'The Interrupters' approaches its fascinating subject matter in a style that…26.08.2011 READ MORE -
The Iron Lady (12A)
UK 2011 105 mins Dir: Phyllida Lloyd Starring: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Richard E. Grant, Olivia Colman, Roger Allom, Iain Glen Thatcherites are already up in arms over a prosthetically augmented Meryl Streep's…06.01.2012 READ MORE
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USA 2011 107 mins Dir: Steven Spielberg Starring: Jamie Bell, Daniel Craig, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost,…
Released 25.10.11
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Monte Carlo (PG)
USA 2011 109 mins Dir: Thomas Bezucha Starring: Selena Gomez, Leighton Meester, Katie Cassidy,…
Released 21.10.11
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We Need to Talk About Kevin (15)
UK/USA 2011 112 mins Dir: Lynne Ramsay Starring: Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller, Jasper…
Released 21.10.11
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Contagion (12A)
USA 2011 106 mins Dir: Steven Soderbergh Starring: Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Marion…
Released 21.10.11
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The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (12A)
Sweden 2011 96 mins Dir: Goran Hugo Olsson A necessarily rather scrappy documentary whose natural…
Released 21.10.11
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Pom Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (12A)
USA 2011 87 mins Dir: Morgan Spurlock If there's one thing more depressing in modern documentary…
Released 14.10.11
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Midnight in Paris (12A)
USA 2011 94 mins Dir: Woody Allen Starring: Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Michael Sheen, Carla…
Released 07.10.11
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Tyrannosaur (18)
UK 2011 92 mins Dir: Paddy Considine Starring: Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman, Eddie Marsan How do you…
Released 07.10.11
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The Debt (15)
USA 2011 113 mins Dir: John Madden Starring: Helen Mirren, Jessica Chastain, Ciaran Hinds, Sam…
Released 30.09.11
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Guilty of Romance (18)
Japan 2011 113 mins Subtitles Dir: Sion Sono Starring: Megumi Kagurazaka, Miki Mizuno, Makato…
Released 30.09.11
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Melancholia (15)
Denmark/Sweden/France/Germany 2011 135 mins Dir: Lars Von Trier Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte…
Released 30.09.11
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Red State (18)
USA 2011 88 mins Dir: Kevin Smith Starring: Michael Parks, Melissa Leo, John Goodman Apparently…
Released 30.09.11
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Shark Night 3D (15)
USA 2011 91 mins Dir: David R. Ellis Starring: Sara Paxton, Dustin Milligan, Chris Carmack, Sinqua…
Released 30.09.11
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