Captures some of the spirit of the real Che.

Timoner offers a resonant, often painfully funny, drama about two good friends who become enemies against the backdrop of the pop-music business.

Comes alive with the more relaxed performances from its senior set.

Even when the plots of sexual confusions, transgression and tragedy became absurdly complicated and arbitrary, there was always the mise-en-scène to die for.

A thinly plotted, amateurishly acted, cartoonishly violent and hugely entertaining array of jaw-dropping stunts and corny slapstick.

Actors Zhang Ziyi and Takeshi Kaneshiro are the kind of startlingly good-looking, glamorous stars that evoke classic Hollywood adventure films.

Running at about three hours, The Aviator is long, and the momentum occasionally flags. The depiction of Hughes's first mental breakdown feels a little obsessive-compulsive itself.

With his trademark spare, unfussy direction and jumping into the story approach, Eastwood subtly establishes the themes of faith, loss and love and then he raises the drama to a different level.

Rather than another oppressive film about poverty, it's a revealing experiment in perspective.

More entertaining than Mission: Impossible or the last Bond film, Goldeneye, it brings back the humour and sang-froid that makes the genre work.

Throughout the film, Cheadle's eyes are constantly scanning his environment for opportunities or anything that may be amiss.

An entertaining takeoff and a high-altitude ride eventually runs into some bumpy weather and a clumsy landing in Mike Newell's new comedy.

Rohmer doesn't attempt to create any skepticism about Grace's perspective on her experiences; we are shown them as she saw them, and seeing is the real pleasure of The Lady and the Duke.

The film is a vertiginous experience of hanging 350 kilometres above the Earth.

At the end of Courage Under Fire, you feel torn between admiration and annoyance with the filmmakers.

A cornball charmer of a film with some beautiful birds and homespun wisdom.

Like the blues, you feel it first, and think of the meaning later.

Sure, it's a bit mechanical, but what did you expect? The important thing is that the characters and jokes don't prevent you from grooving on the pleasures of the moving parts.

The narrative here may be strictly nuts and bolts, but as an achievement in graphic design, Steamboy is first class.

This is a movie about draining, tenderizing and chopping up the audience emotionally.

A celebration of Hong Kong action cinema that mocks gravity, both emotional and physical.

For such a mush-ball teen movie, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants carries a welcome amount of grown-up emotional truth.

With its bold screen-filling imagery, this is definitely a movie to be relished on the big screen.

The Clowns and the Krumpers have a rivalry that parallels the Bloods and the Crips battle for the neighbourhood, but fought out in moves, not bullets.

This is B-movie material all the way, yet it's not only watchable, it's engrossing. That's because the material is in the hands of an A-talent director, who knows, as few of his contemporaries do, how to manipulate the plastic qualities of a film: the lighting, editing, composition, camera movement and production values.

Reportedly, after seeing the film, rapper Eminen is anxious to play a wheelchair athlete in a coming movie.

Burton's movie is not only more faithful, complex and better cast, it has an essential ingredient: squirrels.

But it is bright, smart, sometimes wickedly funny, and crisply performed to the point where the acting seems richer than the script.