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A Single Man, Tom Ford, 100 mins (12A)
Tom Ford's cinematic love letter to the Sixties, starring Colin Firth as a bereaved, gay Englishman in LA, hits the spot as a highbrow weepie
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The Wolfman, Joe Johnston, 96 mins (15)
Ponyo, Hayao Miyazaki, 93 mins (U)
Valentine's Day, Garry Marshall, 125 mins (12A)
Sunday, 14 February 2010
Benicio Del Toro's howling at the Moon. Me? I'm just howling
Sport on Film: Clint doesn't make our day as another movie fails to move
Sunday, 14 February 2010
Just as the Six Nations comes kicking and screaming into our cinemas in glorious 3-D, Matt Damon and Invictus have managed to make rugby look very two-dimensional again.
First Night: Metropolis (uncut), Berlin Film Festival (Rated 5/ 5 )
Saturday, 13 February 2010
After 83 years, a vision of Lang's masterpiece as he intended it
Letter From An Unknown Woman (U) (Rated 5/ 5 )
Friday, 12 February 2010
A weepie like they don't make them like anymore.
Percy Jackson And The Lightning Thief (PG) (Rated 1/ 5 )
Friday, 12 February 2010
So here is how the dread Chris Columbus intends to fill the franchise-vacuum once Harry Potter finally departs the screen.
Ponyo (U) (Rated 3/ 5 )
Friday, 12 February 2010
Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese legend of handmade animation, recasts the story of The Little Mermaid, as a five-year-old boy discovers a goldfish named Ponyo that metamorphoses into a girl.
Winter in Wartime (12a) (Rated 2/ 5 )
Friday, 12 February 2010
Stories of resistance in Nazi-occupied Europe are gaining the status of a genre.
Anonyma: A Woman in Berlin (NC) (Rated 4/ 5 )
Friday, 12 February 2010
Based upon the diary of an anonymous Berlin woman, this dramatises the inglorious and harrowing story of what happened when the Red Army liberated Berlin in the last days of the Second World War.
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FIVE BEST FILMS
The Princess and the Frog, U
A jolly take on the Brothers Grimm fairytale, hand-drawn in glorious 2D, about a hard-working waitress who dreams of opening a restaurant in olden-days New Orleans.
Nationwide
A Single Man, 12a
Colin Firth gives a moving central performance in Tom Ford’s directorial debut, as an English professor domiciled in Los Angeles in 1962 who is mourning the recent death of his lover in a car accident.
Nationwide
A Prophet, 18
A thrilling, visceral and intense prison-gangster drama, charting the rise to criminal prominence of a French-Arab man while he serves a six-year sentence.
Nationwide
Anonyma: a Woman in Berlin, NC
The harrowing story of the rape of German women by Red Army officers after the Battle for Berlin. It’s a horrifying chapter of history, made bearable by the director’s visual restraint.
Limited release
Letter from an Unknown Woman, U
A BFI re-release of the classic 1948 melodrama. It’s a lush, elegantly told but very sad tale of a one-sided romantic obsession in 1900s Vienna.
Limited release