Arts & Culture: Film

Public Enemies (15)

Dazzling visuals can’t disguise a lack of character in this 1930s crime flick

Movies, minus the popcorn

A series of close-ups of women at the cinema is intriguing, but hardly great art

Jobs for the boys

Ryan Gilbey salutes a new wave of British film-makers, but wonders: where are all the women?

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Looking for Eric (15)

Loach’s most upbeat film yet delivers moments of magic without convincing

Sugar (15)

A rookie baseball player is chewed up by the American sports industry

Wild boy falls far from glory

McG’s extension of the Terminator franchise is woefully misconceived

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The bubble economy

A film about an 18th-century criminal has an eery resonance with the events of today

Anatomy of a murderous milieu

The veteran French director’s X-ray lens is as sharply focused as it ever was

Through the looking glass

Charlie Kaufman's mind-bending directorial debut is both big and clever

Darling, you were wonderful

The world of an ageing courtesan is made too seductive for its own good