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Considering Oliver Stone's filmography (JFK, Nixon), it's probably not too much of a surprise that the first b... more

Oliver Stone opted for a change of direction following the Oscar-winning success of his Vietnam War drama Plat... more

As Japanese forces retreat in the Philippines in the last days of the Second World War, they take 10,000 hosta... more

During the first Lebanon War in 1982, film-maker Ari Folman served with the Israel Defense Force in Beirut. Mo... more

A youngster struggles to lead an ordinary life in Germany during the Second World War. Drama, starring Jason H... more

One of the most enduring actor-director partnerships over the past 30 years has been that of Robert Redford an... more

Premiere. Four small-town friends unwittingly become zombies after consuming discarded Army experimental formu... more

Premiere. A psychology student with a troubled past takes a job working alone in a watch tower so she can stud... more

This long-awaited adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's seminal comic-book mini-series is less faithful ... more

This is best remembered today as the wartime movie with a terrific fist-fighting climax as tiny John Mills bea... more

In this glossy romantic drama, Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford play the ideal odd couple - she's poor, jit... more

Graduating to movies from television, British director Tom Shankland displays a promising neo-noir style in th... more

A compulsive gambler ends up in prison after stealing from his father's jazz bar. On his release, he is forced... more

This formulaic, gung-ho war drama is based on the bestselling memoir by war correspondent Joseph Galloway and ... more

The difficulty with this black comedy drama about a TV weatherman and his midlife crisis is that the audience ... more

Two brothers desperate to escape the drudgery of their father's carpet business get a job working for a compan... more

A Californian teenager learns she is the reincarnation of a legendary female warrior destined to protect the w... more

Ten well-deserved Oscars - plus a special award for Jerome Robbins's dynamic choreography - adorned this elect... more

After appearing in duds like 15 Minutes and Godsend, it's a shame that Robert De Niro saved one of his best pe... more

A slightly misguided attempt to remake Raoul Walsh's 1926 silent hit that made international stars of Victor M... more

Mel Gibson seems to be winning the battle of the sexes in this inventive romantic comedy from director Nancy M... more

This is possibly the worst experience that could happen inside a cinema. Trite, unfunny and shockingly mediocr... more

In this sobering drama, Meg Ryan proves no more adept portraying a drunk than she was playing an action heroin... more

Keri Russell is hardly a household name in the UK, but she's a pin-up in the States thanks to her sprightly tu... more

Why has disgraced alien troubleshooter Richard Grieco been sent back in time to feed a parking meter in a smal... more

One of those heart-tuggers so beloved of American TV movie-makers and, yes, it's based on a true story. Marg H... more

With credits including Being John Malkovich and a raft of off-the-wall music videos, director Spike Jonze is s... more

Histrionics badly hamper the plot of this highly charged drama set in a small American town. Cybill Shepherd, ... more

This warmly engaging and winning romantic comedy has plenty of novel twists and witty turns. Sandra Bullock is... more

Drew Barrymore's directorial debut is an exuberant and heartwarming coming-of-age tale. Juno's Ellen Page is s... more

Neither the Juliette Greco Rank movie, nor the 1934 Jack Holt vehicle of the same name, this is the genuine ar... more

Following their amiable 2001 debut, 25 Watts, co-writers (with Gonzalo Delgado Galiana) and directors Juan Pab... more

In a low-key but very satisfying thriller, Michael Caine investigates the mysterious death of his son, Nigel H... more

Campers come to realise that an ancient legend of sacrificial killings is becoming frighteningly real. Horror,... more

This is family fare for the kind of family that thinks The Waltons is high drama. Jack London's ferocious stor... more

Ethan Hawke puts in an uncredited appearance at the start of this handsome Disney adventure, which, unlike its... more

A shy pupil's feelings of isolation lead her to become ensnared by the web of a white supremacist group after ... more

One of the best of Burt Reynolds's good ol' boy movies, in which he's a moonshiner whose manufacture of illici... more

Director Michael Haneke won the Palme d'Or for this immaculate monochrome mystery set in the bucolic north Ger... more

This sequel to 2000's The Whole Nine Yards reunites Matthew Perry and Bruce Willis in their roles of nervy den... more

The smouldering flame of passion is reignited when a nightclub murder forces former lovers back together, with... more

Erotic thriller, with Monique Parent, Keri Windsor and Frank Harper.... more

This is arguably one of the greatest westerns ever made. And argument is what Sam Peckinpah's masterpiece has ... more

For all its shimmering images of the beautiful French countryside and its painstaking attention to period deta... more

A girl plays a visit to her friend, who lives on a ranch, and takes photographs of a herd of wild horses in th... more

It may be superficial and predictable, with special effects bloated out of all proportion, but this western fa... more

There's a nice irony in the fact that first-time director Vincent Monton cites Risky Business as one of the ma... more

This booming and bloody Second World War drama could have illuminated a little-known aspect of the conflict, i... more

It could be argued that 20th Century Fox released this dull space opera in the months before Star Wars Episode... more

A boy frustrated at his failure as a baseball player finds himself transported back in time and transformed in... more