
Movies about big dreams play well to the intellectuals and the cheap seats.»

Time Out Sydney editor-in-chief Angus Fontaine passes judgement on the year's most hyped extravaganza.»

There's action aplenty, but a quantum of charm would not have gone astray in Craig's sophomore outing.»

If repetitive mentions of homosexual rape make you uncomfortable, it's probably best that you avoid Big Stan altogether. »

Survivor guilt gets a subtle treatment in this lyrical post-Holocaust film.»

This movie has a rare generosity, that sets it apart from the current crop of glamorised gossip girls»

The guv'nor of geezer cinema is back on cracking form.»

It makes sense that the scenes are pitched between icky and titillating, but the lack of delicacy reduces everything to stock sordidness.»

Limey journalist Simon Pegg heads to NYC, and it's not as funny as it should have been
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In the Coen brothers' latest, a dimwit (Brad Pitt) finds a disc containing CIA secrets and attempts to blackmail the agent (John Malkovich) it belongs to.»

Superficially, at least, it's hard to fault this risky adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel for its fidelity to the book.»

Nicholas Sparks's novels are to Harlequin romances as Douwe Egberts is to Nescafé: marketed as having a little dash of class, they're still ersatz java.»