1. Margaret | Rating: * * * * *
Kenneth Lonergan’s Margaret is a breathtakingly ambitious drama of clashing ethics and responsibilities, set in post-9/11 New York.
2. Wuthering Heights | Rating: * * * * *
Andrea Arnold’s adaptation is strange, profane and flecked with rime and spittle. It feels, in the best way possible, totally alien.
3. A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas | Rating: * * * *
A highly offensive and baroquely revolting paean to the festive season.
4. The Deep Blue Sea | Rating: * * * *
A gorgeous and stifling adaptation of Terence Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea.
5. Arthur Christmas | Rating: * * * *
The film may not be as technologically lavish as those produced by Pixar or DreamWorks, but the characters are utterly charming.
6.The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo | Rating: * * *
Rooney Mara glistens like an icicle in the new American adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s pulp thriller The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
7.Wreckers | Rating: * * *
Secrets are wisely hidden from view in this smart and engrosing debut drama from British director DR Hood.
8. Another Earth | Rating: * * *
Another Earth is an admirable debut feature by Mike Cahill.
9. Mysteries of Lisbon | Rating: * * *
Mysteries of Lisob is the last great burst of creativity from filmmaker Raúl Ruiz before he died.
10. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)| Rating: * * *
Starring Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law, 'Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows' is the closest action cinema has ever come to pantomime.
