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Ryan Gilbey gives his verdict on the key new movie releases

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Diminishing returns

  • 08 January 2009

A poignant story of life in Mumbai gets undermined by corporate money Slumdog Millionaire (15) dir: Danny Boyle

Brave new worlds

  • 18 December 2008

Abba singalongs aside, plenty of films broke exciting, fresh ground this year

A life less ordinary

  • 11 December 2008

Peter O'Toole soldiers on, with a sublime and understated tale Dean Spanley (U) dir: Toa Fraser Lemon Tree (PG) dir: Eran Riklis

Motherhood, madness and melodrama

  • 27 November 2008
  • 2 comments

Heavy-handed direction turns one woman's ordeal into a sensationalist affair Changeling (15) dir: Clint Eastwood

Thanks for the memories

  • 20 November 2008

An unsettling and inspired exploration of how the trauma of war affects the mind Waltz With Bashir (18) dir: Ari Folman

Killing to be cool

  • 13 November 2008

Black-leather glam over-romanticises the real story of this 1970s guerrilla gang The Baader Meinhof Complex (18) dir: Uli Edel

Misunderestimating George

  • 06 November 2008
  • 1 comment

Is the horror of the Bush years beyond satire? Stone's bland effort suggests so W (15) dir: Oliver Stone

Celebrating masochism

  • 30 October 2008
  • 2 comments

The latest James Bond blockbuster is little more than the usual exercise in designer violence, while an astounding portrait of the 1980s IRA hunger strikers takes film into visceral territory

Stepford school friends

  • 23 October 2008

Disney's cheerful cash cow is honest in ways grittier youth films can't match High School Musical 3: Senior Year (U) dir: Kenny Ortega

That superior feeling

  • 16 October 2008

The Coen brothers' espionage comedy is an exercise in smugness Burn After Reading (15) dir: Joel and Ethan Coen

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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