Evening Standard - Film

Sensitivity in The Sea Wall

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:07:52 GMT

The Sea Wall is culled from Cambodian director Rithy Panh's own experiences as a young woman in the French Indo-China of the Thirties

Sensitivity in The Sea Wall

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:31:47 GMT

The Sea Wall is culled from Cambodian director Rithy Panh's own experiences as a young woman in the French Indo-China of the Thirties

Manchan shows desperate plight

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:31:47 GMT

With some gusto, Manchan tells the astonishing true story of a group of illegal immigrants

Family issues in First Day Of The Rest Of Your Life

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:31:47 GMT

This smash hit at the French box office, The First Day Of The Rest Of Your Life, is an extended portrait of an ordinary family, sketched out over 12 years

Family friction in Glorious 39

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:00:22 GMT

British period pieces are regularly mocked as pretty pieces of cinema devoid of real bite. But you couldn't call Stephen Poliakoff's first film for more than a decade, Glorious 39, namby-pamby

A Serious Man makes comedy out of a crisis

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:00:22 GMT

Joel and Ethan Cohen's A Serious Man isn't just a comedy - the serious edge of human enquiry is there too

The imperfect spy in The Informant!

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:28:34 GMT

Steven Soderbergh's ironic, beautifully acted comedy, The Informant! is based on the story of one of the highest-ranking whistleblowers in American corporate history

No sex in New Moon please, we're vampires

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:47:53 GMT

The creepiest thing about the second adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight books - New Moon - is its obsession with teenage celibacy.

Eccentric life in We Live In Public

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:32:12 GMT

If you want to know how we arrived at Facebook and Twitter, take a look at Ondi Timoners extraordinary documentary, We Live In Public

Love The Beast is a modest film

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:32:12 GMT

You would have to love Eric Bana and his souped-up old racer to appreciate Love The Beast

Story of Amelia lacks passion

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:32:12 GMT

Hilary Swank plays Amelia Earhart with a great big smile and looks a treat in her flying outfits

Much warmth for Cold Souls

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:32:12 GMT

Paul Giametti plays a neurotic actor trying to get through rehearsals for Chekhov's Uncle Vanya in director Sophie Barthes's debut, Cold Souls

The White Ribbon is an unholy masterpiece

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:32:12 GMT

Michael Haneke's tale of mysterious events in a deeply religious village, The White Ribbon, digs deep into the soul

Lala Pipo is jaunty but not erotic

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:52:27 GMT

There's a talking penis in Miyano Masayukis comedy, Lala Pipo, and a bevy of sex-starved young people who wander sex clubs in search of fulfilment

Taking Woodstock is not Ang Lee's finest

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:52:27 GMT

Ang Lee's attempt to put the Swinging Sixties on the screen with love, respect and a dash of humour in Taking Woodstock is a distinct disappointment

Will 3D epic Avatar save film as we know it?

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:52:27 GMT

Of all the blockbusters due in December, James Cameron's 3D sci-fi epic Avatar will be subject to the beadiest scrutiny

Michael Caine cleans up in Harry Brown

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:19:33 GMT

Sir Michael Caine's central performance in Harry Brown is as impressive as anything he has recently done

Could 2012 be the greatest disaster movie ever?

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:15:15 GMT

Roland Emmerich's latest epic of impending doom, 2012, is perhaps the most intelligent and exciting example of the genre

Sex and the sixties in An Education

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:15:15 GMT

An adaptation of journalist Lynn Barber's memoir of her days as a suburban schoolgirl brilliantly captures the spirit of its age in An Education.

A captivating love story in Bright Star

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:47:44 GMT

Jane Campion's Bright Star is full of confidence about its artistic vision and genuinely poetic, says Andrew O'Hagan

Enjoy a thrill ride with A Christmas Carol

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:43:17 GMT

Robert Zemeckis's A Christmas Carol is splendidly mounted and visually imaginative animated 3D version of the classic novel

Romance in Paper Heart

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:20:55 GMT

You will find cheaply made American independent docudrama Paper Heart, charming or faintly irritating

1 Day is impressively non-moralistic

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:20:55 GMT

Made on the unlovely streets of Birmingham, 1 Day has been labelled the first British hip-hop musical

High school vampire teasing in Jennifer's Body

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:20:55 GMT

Jennifer's Body, starring Megan Fox, is no ordinary splatter movie but one written by Diablo Cody, who penned Juno

Clooney's barmy army in The Men Who Stare At Goats

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:37:06 GMT

The Men Who Stare At Goats, taken from Jon Ronson's non-fiction book about the US Army's attempt to use paranormal powers, doesnt quite cut it.