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Film Review: The Lady

rated 12A ***

JOHN Boorman made a 1995 film called Beyond Rangoon, in which Patricia Arquette played a doctor called Laura Bowman.Read

Film Review: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

rated 18 ****

PERHAPS he was inspired by the fact he’d cast Daniel Craig in the lead role, but David Fincher seems to be setting out his stall as a future Bond director in the opening credits.Read

Film Review: Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

rated 12A *****

IT’S NOT James Bond, it’s not Jason Bourne and, 15 years after the original Mission: Impossible, I’m not even sure that it’s still Ethan Hunt.Read

Film Review: The Silence (Das Letzte Schweigen)

rated 15 ****

MURDERS are abhorrent – but there will always be a silver screen fascination for why, when, where and how.Read

Film Review: The Well Digger's Daughter

rated PG *****

MANON Des Sources star Daniel Auteuil has long been one of the best actors working in modern French cinema.Read

Bollywood: Priyanka Chopra talks about her new movie, Don 2

Priyanka Chopra on Don 2.Read

Film reviews: Ladies vs Ricky Bahl (PG) **

LADIES VS RICKY BAHL (PG)Read

Films Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (12A) ***

I’M ALL for film-makers pushing the boundaries, but only when the certificate is an appropriate one.Read

Films: Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (U) ***

IF YOU are feeling gloomy about everything from the economy to the weather, don’t worry.Read

Films: Zac Efron: Christmas is a time for family

IT IS a charming thought: Zac Efron, the stuff of a million tween fantasies, sitting round a Christmas tree in his night shirt, opening presents with his little brother Dylan and their parents.Read

Film Review: The Big Year

rated PG **

AT THEIR best, Steve Martin (The Man With Two Brains), Jack Black (School of Rock) and Owen Wilson (Marley & Me) have done some solid, silver screen comedy work.Read

Film Review: Puss in Boots

rated U ****

CATS might have nine lives, but they don’t always survive at the movies.Read

Film Review: New Year's Eve

rated 12A ****

IT’S the countdown to the biggest party of the year.Read

Film Review: The Deep Blue Sea

rated 15 ****

WHEN you have a filmmaker as individual as the 66-year-old Liverpudlian Terence Davies, you might wonder why he would choose a familiar film title.Read

Film Review: Another Earth

rated 12A ***

EARLIER this year, Lars von Trier’s overlong Melancholia almost bored me to tears as a mysterious new planet threatened to crash into our world.Read

Bollywood: The Dirty Picture

rated 15 ***

Village girl Reshma (Vidya) comes to Mumbai with dreams of becoming a famous actress.Read

Film review: Hugo (U) *****

DELIVERED straight from the heart of the uniquely film-literate director Martin Scorsese, Hugo is an encyclopaedic love letter to the founding fathers of the moving image a century ago.Read

Film review: Happy Feet 2 3D (U) ***

IT’S hard to believe that it’s already five years since we first entered the world of Mumble, a penguin born without the ability to sing.Read

Film: Martin Scorsese's secret confession.

I’VE been lucky enough to meet most of the great filmmakers of the past 25 years, but none of them has had the unquenchable fire of Martin Scorsese.Read

Film Review: Moneyball - (12A) * * *

rated 12A ***

I HAVE a natural aversion to sports movies and to those featuring incomprehensible American football and baseball in particular.Read