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Enchanted

EVERY Christmas, there are certain films which perfectly embody the festive spirit. Whether it’s a small boy flying through the air with an animated snowman, Alastair Sim’s Scrooge realising the error of his ways, Bing Crosby dreaming of a White Christmas or Jimmy Stewart learning to value family life.Read

We Own The Night

JAMES Gray, writer-director of The Yards, reunites with charismatic lead stars Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Wahlberg for this gritty account of betrayal and retribution, set against a backdrop of 80s New York street crime.Read

The Golden Compass

AFTER months of rumour and counter-rumour about a spiralling budget ($150m to $200m) and drastic changes to the screenplay, not to mention calls for a boycott of the film by the Catholic League, The Golden Compass is finally here. Read

Hitman

FANS of the top-selling videogame series, from which Xavier Gens’s stylish shooter takes its inspiration, will be thrilled by how faithfully the iconography has been translated to the big screen.Read

The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford

IF BRAD Pitt lassos his first ever Oscar nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his portrayal of the eponymous outlaw in Andrew Dominik’s handsome drama, it will be at the expense of an even better performance.Read

Fred Claus

DAVID Dobkin’s new comedy, reuniting the director with his Wedding Crashers leading man Vince Vaughn, will bring out the Scrooge in even the most ardent fan this Christmas.Read

August Rush

FORGET iPods, mp3 players, Walkmans, radios and other portable music devices. Read

The Darjeeling Limited

IN THE space of four films – Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums and The Life Aquatic – writer-director Wes Anderson has become one of the most exciting, distinctive and original voices in modern American filmmaking. Read

Sleuth

RELEASED in 1972, Joseph Mankiewicz’s tense thriller Sleuth, adapted by Anthony Shaffer from his own stage play, pitted Sir Laurence Olivier against Michael Caine in a titanic battle of nerve and deception. Read

Shrooms

ABANDONING the quirky black comedies which have become his trademark, Irish director Paddy Breathnach tries his hand at a modern-day horror with a strong anti-drugs message.Read

Beowulf

USING sophisticated motion-capture technology, Robert Zemeckis’s computer-animated re-imagining of the oldest surviving poem in the English language boasts dazzling fight sequences, lusty serving wenches and mythic creatures.Read

American Gangster

DURING decades of social, economic and racial turmoil, the world’s greatest superpower has consistently lost one battle: To purge its streets of drugs.Read

Brick Lane

SINCE its publication in 2003, Brick Lane by Monica Ali has inspired adulation and condemnation with equal fervour. Read

Death at a funeral

FRANK Oz’s very British black comedy of secrets from beyond the grave harks back to glorious farces of the 1940s and 50s, with a distinctly modern sensibility: narcotic-fuelled hallucinations, gratuitous nudity and illicit sexual dalliances. Read

Saw IV

FROM the moment a digital clock ominously begins to tick down the seconds, it’s clear that Saw IV, the latest viscera-drenched puzzle in the series, is a film concerned with time.Read

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

WHEN Gwyneth Paltrow sobbed her little heart out as she accepted the 1999 Academy Award for Best Actress In A Leading Role, a more deserving winner sat serenely in the audience, smiling politely for the cameras.Read

Disturbia

THANKS to our hectic lives, many of us never get to know the neighbours.Read

3:10 To Yuma

Fifty years after Glenn Ford and Van Heflin cocked their pistols in the original 3:10 To Yuma, based on a story by Elmore Leonard, director James Mangold saddles up for a fast-paced remake that reinvigorates the western genre.Read