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Gown and out: Larry David plays a faded professor in Woody Allen's tired Whatever Works

Whatever Works (12A) (Rated 1/ 5 )

Woody curbs any enthusiasm

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Villa Amalia (PG) (Rated 3/ 5 )

Friday, 25 June 2010

Isabelle Huppert supplies another square yard of enigmatic twitchiness as a Frenchwoman in flight from her own life.

DVD: Breaking Away (12) (Rated 5/ 5 )

Friday, 25 June 2010

Legions of films promise the "feel-good factor", few provide it. Peter Yates's sun-drenched coming-of-age 1979 movie is a lovely exception.

The Collector (18) (Rated 1/ 5 )

Friday, 25 June 2010

More foul than Fowles, this begins quite tensely before plunging headlong into an atrocious slice of torture porn.

DVD: The Princess and the Frog (U) (Rated 4/ 5 )

Friday, 25 June 2010

"You can do anything you set your heart to," Tiana's papa tells her when she's a little girl. So, years later, Tiana sets about fulfilling her late father's dream of running a restaurant in New Orleans.

Good Hair (12A) (Rated 2/ 5 )

Friday, 25 June 2010

When did the afro become a no-go?

Breathless (PG) (Rated 5/ 5 )

Friday, 25 June 2010

Proof that you can still be cool at 50.

Get Him To The Greek (15) (Rated 2/ 5 )

Friday, 25 June 2010

Russell Brand, hirsute imp of the perverse, gets to play at extended length (ahem) a rock star "legend" he first incarnated in the romantic comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

When In Rome (PG) (Rated 1/ 5 )

Friday, 25 June 2010

Oh my. Disney push the limits of abject banality with this exercise in feel-good that will make anyone of even moderate intelligence feel very bad.

DVD: The Beekeeper (18) (Rated 3/ 5 )

Friday, 25 June 2010

A ponderously paced but poignant story about an ageing beekeeper, who follows the pollen trail around a drearily grey Greece that is far from the picture-postcard vision usually seen on screen.

DVD: Everybody's Fine (12) (Rated 3/ 5 )

Friday, 25 June 2010

Whoosh! What was that? That, mate, was your life! There's a shocking awakening that comes to many men when they stop working – everything else.

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FIVE BEST FILMS

Bad Lieutenant (18, Werner Herzog, 122mins)
Werner Herzog’s version of Abel Ferrara’s 1992 movie stands at an angle, neither sequel nor remake. Set in post-Katrina New Orleans, it’s a film of dank, lowering skies and sickly blue dawns, with Nicolas Cage giving it the Full Kinski as a rogue cop descending a spiral of perdition. Nationwide

Shed Your Tears and Walk Away (NC, Jez Lewis, 90mins)
Intimate, heart-rending, searingly honest but non-judgemental first-person documentary, offering a close-up portrait of the director’s alcoholic and drug-addicted contemporaries and acquaintances, and investigating the damage wreaked upon two generations by addiction, joblessness and despair in the West Yorkshire market town of Hebden Bridge, where he grew up. Limited release

Vincere (15, Marco Bellocchio, 124mins)
Is it possible that Benito Mussolini was even worse than the official history makes him? Marco Bellocchio’s drama believes so, portraying Il Duce not only as the man who led Italy into the abyss but disowned his first wife and separated her from their son. Filippo Timi gives a chilling performance. Limited release

Please Give (15, Nicole Holofcener, 90 mins)
In Nicole Holofcener’s latest and best film, Catherine Keener plays Kate, a well-to-do New Yorker who worries herself to distraction about society’s unfortunates and expresses it in compulsive handouts to to street people. Holofcener depends on the lure of character and feeling to keep her audience involved, and her writing is so incisive that it’s no hardship to submit. Nationwide

Ajami (15, Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani, 125 mins)
Set in the titular neighbourhood of Jaffa, in Israel, this riveting drama examines the violence and tension crackling through the city’s uneasy mix of Arabs, Jews and Christians. It’s harrowing at times, yet compassionate and clear-sighted, a double vision that feels even more plausible once you know that its directors are an Israeli Jew and a Palestinian. Limited release

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