Culture: Reviews

An Education (12A)/Taking Woodstock (15)

It’s hard to avoid cliché in such a well-visited era

Fantastic Mr Fox (PG)

The puppets are gorgeous but the script's a bit familiar, writes Ryan Gilbey

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (12A)

A strangely underpowered effort from Terry Gilliam

Born in '68 (15)

French hippie ideals sour in less than convincing style

Away We Go (15)

Sam Mendes and a hip literary couple deliver a shockingly smug movie

Seduction line

“What a tremendous eye he has,” said David Bowie of the film-maker Nagisa Oshima after working with him on Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence. Ryan Gilbey celebrates the Japanese director’s eroticism and wicked sense of humour

Fish Tank (15)

A quirky drama finds unexpected poetry in the Essex badlands

Broken Embraces (15)

The once searingly original Spanish auteur stoops to self-parody

Inglourious Basterds (18)

Nazi hunters mix with cinema buffs in a return to form for Tarantino

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Sin nombre (15)

This immigrant tale is a flimsy but entertaining gangland thriller