Sacha Baron Cohen, Ben Kingsley, John C Reilly, Anna Faris
Aladeen may rule Wadiya, but Sacha Baron Cohen won't be ruling the box-office with his latest comedy.
Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Eva Green, Helena Bonham-Carter
Johnny Depp makes a good vampire, but there really is no life in this lavish laugh-fest from Tim Burton.
Wish You Were Here is slowly unwrapped like a Chinese puzzle, all jump cuts, and flashbacks, the colour palette rich, the camera angles skewed, the performances naturalistic and all too believable.
This uneven rom-com charts a rocky path and ends up being more Funny People than Bridesmaids.
So many Aussies run amok in South East Asia - this movie is a wake-up call for young Aussie travellers.
One of the most anticipated movies of the year turns out to be one of the most satisfying, thanks to a smart script and great direction from Joss Whedon.
A magical ride across Middle and Southern America, where giant deserted malls and collapsed motels are a backdrop to this beautifully shot paean to an America lost forever.
What perfect timing! A biopic about Aung San Suu Kyi's personal struggle for Burma's political freedom.
Emily Blunt and Ewan McGregor are charming in a romantic/comedy/drama that involves lots of fish.
It's a beautifully fashioned and, yes, Ealingesque tale of dreamers, madmen, terrorists and foolish but wonderful dreams.
A big, bombastic, alien invasion film at sea by toy manufacturers Hasbro, Battleship is based on the board game Battleship.
The story and the characters are bad enough to sink a ship, but this cinematic vessel powers on thanks to impressive effects and decent action sequences.
This cold, fascinating meditation on a key moment in medical theory and its bizarre fallout is both a kind of intellectual puzzle and great filmmaking.
Everyone has a ball, for The Rum Diary is one of the truly great psychedelic movies of the modern era, a tribute to all involved.
A look at the birth of psychoanalysis and dark sexual desires which is unfortunately less spicy than required - hard to believe it's directed by David Cronenberg!
It's a case of the battling therapists as Jung and Freud clash in David Cronenberg's thoughtful period piece.
It's a brilliantly constructed and mesmorising thriller, great filmmaking, wonderful acting and, at heart a dark moral fable that is all too dreadfully true!
The wildly popular young-adult novel makes its way to the big screen as a smart sci-fi with dark undertones.
Is The Hunger Games the new Twilight? All the kids are talking about this new teen dystopian future adventure.
The trouble is that Coriolanus is such a one-note drama. Or melodrama. No wonder Bertholt Brecht decided back in the 1940s to write a new version.
Not just for Seniors - a fun film for all!
My goodness. The big screen comedy update of the popular 80s show is actually lots of fun.
Carnage is a brilliant study, superbly acted, of the thinness of our civilized strategies and the final failure of the language of good will and commonsense.
A Norwegian film based on the book by crime writer Jo Nesbo about a recruitment specialist with a chip on his shoulder and a sideline as an art thief.
Hollywood has had 100 years to make a movie about John Carter, but this big screen treatment is a mess from start to finish.
Michelle Williams is touching as the broken doll of a woman and Eddie Redmayne quintessentially boyish as Colin. But it all just doesn't ring true. So the myth remains intact.
Morality tale or morally bunkrupt? This party film trashes everything in sight.
Buck succeeds as both a movie and a penetrating insight into a unique and inspiring man.
Don't forget your tissues for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - the tale of an odd and hurting 10 year old boy searching for meaning and connection after the death of his father on September 11
It may be silent, but Michel Hazanavicius' creation has a wonderful voice and sings a song in celebration of cinema.
Choppy dialogue is bookended with endless montages of scenic bits and pieces and, in the end, a plot as predictable as a champagne hangover.
It may be war, but there's just not enough spark in this action rom-com to make it satisfying.
Martha Marcy May Marlene is a tragedy carried out in broad daylight to the soundtrack of melancholy and haunting songs
The new film from the popular Working Dog team is lacking in genuine laugh-out-loud moments but succeeds with a sweet and charming story and performances.
An Aussie RomCom from the Working Dog team, Any Questions For Ben? unfortunately isn't very funny and only slightly romantic.
J. Edgar at its finest moments, is a mirror held up to America's ongoing and constant fear of The Other.
A sweethearted romantic Hollywood tale told with the affectation of being black and white and silent.
Clint Eastwood's biopic is easy to admire and features a great performance from Leonardo DiCaprio, but its central character still proves a tad elusive.
The Descendants is no movie of the week weepie but a finely wrought piece of character observation, shot in a Paradise.
Meryl Streep saves the day with an extraordinary performance in an otherwise disappointing biopic of the British PM.
Martin Scorsese pays tribute to the cinema of the past with an outstanding 3D film that's both heartfelt and stunning.
Ah, what more could the vanished, sweet child in us all want?
The Swedish bestseller makes its English-language film debut in a stylish and impressive work from David Fincher.
The Kid with a Bike is a spare film, with only two main characters and runs for only 88 minutes, but by the end we are so tense from watching the title character, Cyril (Thomas Doret), and his near disastrous progress through the film that when my mother and I have a minor drama in the car park that we become almost hysterical with laughter, so tightly wound has the story made us.
It's Holmes versus Moriarty in this lacklustre sequel that fails to add much to the detective-action franchise.
Could 2011's most touching love story be between a young man and his horse? Steven Spielberg delivers a cinematic tour de force that pay homage to good storytelling and classic cinema.