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3:10 To Yuma

RARELY will you ever see film-making problems appear quite so obviously as in this cowboy remake. Read

Superbad

ALMOST exactly eight years after American Pie stormed Britain, along comes the 21st century's nearest equivalent yet. Read

In The Hands Of God

DON'T ask me how, but this uneven documentary about five ball jugglers keen to meet Diego Maradona is somehow getting a wider release than recent movies like Waitress, Two Days in Paris and the excellent Hallam Foe. Read

Disturbia

THIS thriller sounds as if it's blended suburbia with 'Insania', the annoyingly-stupid word associated with Petre Andre. Read

Shoot 'Em Up

IN THIS outlandishly violent fantasy, Coventry-born actor Clive Owen plays a carrot-chewing hitman who's trying to improve his eyesight. Read

The Serpent

AFTER District 13, Tell No One and 36 I've been developing an increasingly spot for French thrillers. Read

Atonement

AFTER winning four Oscar nominations for remaking Pride & Prejudice in 2005, young British director Joe Wright is back in period harness with Keira Knightley. Read

Rise of the Footsoldier

WHEN I first heard the title of this film, I expected it to be a period horror set in the days of the Roman Army. Read

Run Fatboy Run

FRIENDS star David Schwimmer hasn't set Hollywood on fire with movies like Six Days Seven Nights and Big Nothing. Read

No Reservations

GERMAN/Italian coproduction Mostly Martha (2001) is one of my favourite foreign films of recent years. Now it's been remade by Hollywood with Catherine Zeta-Jones as a headstrong chef who suddenly has to raise her young niece. Read

Breach

IT BEGAN with Spider-Man 3 on May 4, but, after 17 weeks, the blockbuster 'silly' season is finally over. Read

1408

STEPHEN King adaptations can be hit and miss. Read

2 Days In Paris

AN OSCAR-NOMINEE for co-writing Richard Linklater's Before Sunset, Julie Delpy returns to her home city as the writer, director, editor, scorer and star of this amusing 101-minute relationships' comedy. Read

Hallam Foe

THE WAY innocent children turn into self-centred adults is a dilemma for every parent. Read

Knocked Up

IF AMERICAN Pie is the father of the modern, 'gross-out' Hollywood comedy, then Knocked Up is its child born out of wedlock. Read

Seraphim Falls

SINCE we hardly see any horsing around these days, it would be more than fair to say this is one of the best westerns for years. Read

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Bratz

IF the Bourne Ultimatum is everything that is good about modern cinema, Bratz is the opposite. Read

The Bourne Ultimatum

FOLLOW this one if you can, Meester Bond. Read

Waitress

EVER since Spider-Man III didn't quite live up to expectations on May 4, we've had a summer-long deluge of blockbusters, children's movies, lame-brained sequels and animations. Read

Surf's Up

AFTER the success of penguins in Madagascar and Happy Feet, here's a third animation - which also takes a lead from the global hit documentary March of the Penguins and TV series Creature Comforts. Read