13 (TZAMETI)
(Géla Babluani, 15, 86min)
A Georgian immigrant to France becomes embroiled in a Russian roulette tournament in Babluani’s taut arthouse thriller. (Kevin Maher)
BEE SEASON
(Scott McGehee, David Siegel, 12A, 105min)
See review.
A BITTERSWEET LIFE
(Kim Ji Woon, 18, 120min)
Korean gangster flick whose eye-popping violence is mitigated by its ultra-stylish comic-book design and a mercurial central performance from Lee Byung Hun as a gang member who falls from grace. (Wendy Ide)
BREAKFAST ON PLUTO
(Neil Jordan, 15, 135min)
Jordan uses a picaresque tale of a transvestite from Cork searching for his long-lost mother in London as an allegorical commentary on the Troubles — and fails on both counts. (James Christopher)
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BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
(Ang Lee, 15, 134min)
Golden Globe-winning portrait of a love affair between two ranch hands, superbly played by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal. (JC)
THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE
(Andrew Adamson, PG, 140min)
Big-screen adaptation that is about as believable, and as moving, as a pantomime horse. (Dominic Wells)
A COCK AND BULL STORY
(Michael Winterbottom, 15, 95min)
Clever, hugely enjoyable, anarchic romp about a shambolic crew trying to film the unfilmable 18th-century novel Tristram Shandy, with Steve Coogan on sublime form as a wildly egomaniac actor. (JC)
THE CONSTANT GARDENER
(Fernando Meirelles, 15, 128min)
Thrilling adaptation of John le Carré’s novel, which digs the dirt on drugs companies. (JC)
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CRY WOLF
(Jeff Wadlow, 12A, 90min)
Wadlow revives the teen slasher movie, but removes the gore to anodyne effect. (Nigel Kendall)
FUN WITH DICK AND JANE
(Dean Parisot, 12A, 90min)
Husband and wife (Jim Carrey and Téa Leoni) turn to crime to pay the bills after his employers go bust. A flaccid remake of the original 1977 hit film. (WI)
GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN’
(Jim Sheridan, 15, 117min)
Laudably unsentimental account of the rise of Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson from crack-seller to successful rapper. (Angus Batey)
FROZEN
(Juliet McKoen, 15, 90min)
See review.
HIDDEN (CACHÉ)
(Michael Haneke, 15, 118min)
See review.
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JARHEAD
(Sam Mendes, 15, 123min)
Artfully composed portrait of mind-numbing boredom on the battlefield, with Jake Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard as US soldiers in the first Gulf War. (WI)
JUST FRIENDS
(Roger Kumble, 12A, 96min)
Misfiring satire on Hollywood’s obsession with physical perfection, starring Ryan Reynolds and Amy Smart. (KM)
JUST LIKE HEAVEN
(Mark Waters, PG, 95min)
A drab remix of the Ghost formula. (Ian Nathan)
LIVE AND BECOME
(Radu Mihaileanu, 12A, 140min)
A bold parable of religious and racial identity. (KM)
MATCH POINT
(Woody Allen, 12A, 124min)
A social-climbing tennis coach (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) schemes to marry into the English upper classes, but is derailed by a luminous Scarlett Johannson in Allen’s comedy of manners. (JC)
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MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA
(Rob Marshall, 12A, 145min)
Glossy adaptation of Arthur Golden’s bestseller about the rise of a beautiful geisha that sugarcoats the moral darkness at the heart of this Japanese tradition. (WI)
MUNICH
(Steven Spielberg, 15, 165min)
See review.
THE NEW WORLD
(Terrence Malick, 12A, 150min)
See review.
THE NIGHT WE CALLED IT A DAY
(Paul Goldman, 15, 97min)
Dennis Hopper makes a convincingly arrogant and abusive Frank Sinatra in this reconstruction of Ol’ Blue Eyes’ infamous 1974 tour of Australia. (Brian Case)
THE PRODUCERS
(Susan Stroman, 12A, 134min)
The funny lines are still funny, the songs are pleasant, but this remake can’t replace the original. (Kim Newman)
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RIZE
(David LaChapelle, PG, 86min)
A marginal but compelling study of the dance craze krumping. (Ian Nathan)
RUMOR HAS IT . . .
(Rob Reiner, 12A, 96min)
See review.
RUNNING SCARED
(Wayne Kramer, 18, 121min)
Embedded within is the kernel of an interesting child-in-peril fantasy, but it is subsumed into an ultra-violent but pedestrian mobster flick. (WI)
SHOPGIRL
(Anand Tucker, 15, 95min)
Low-key character study (but lacking real incisiveness) of a demure salesgirl (Claire Danes), the rich, older Steve Martin, and the young, aimless Jason Schwartzman, who both court her. (WI)