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Movie review: <i>Tulpan</i>
Full disclosure: I am a complete sucker for films set in that broad sweep of land between Ulan Bator and the Caucasus.

Movie review: <i>Get Him to the Greek</i>
Get Him to the Greek is very much a satire, taking the mickey out of the music industry in general.

Movie review: <i>Dans Paris</i>
This downbeat French family drama is so dated I had to check my watch to make sure I had not been transported back to the 1970s.

Movie review: <i>Shrek Forever After</i>
Everyone's favourite ogre faces a midlife crisis in what might be the most serious Shrek movie of them all, writes Russell Baillie.

Movie review: <i>Amreeka</i>
Good-hearted but occasionally clunky, this story traverses rather belatedly the same territory as mainstream films like The Visitor.

Movie review: <i>Sex and the City 2</i>
While the sequel is neither as hilarious or emotional as its predecessor, it at least ups the ante for endless wardrobe changes.

Movie review: <i>Street Dance 3D</i>
The first British film shot in 3D uses the technology to bring dance and cinema together in an exuberant way.

Movie review: <i>The Last Station</i>
This adaptation of Jay Parini's 1990 novel about the last year in the life of the great Russian novelist Count Leo Tolstoy is like a night at the theatre in London or New York.

Movie review: <i>The French Kissers</i>
In contrast to the teen-model stars of American romps, the kids look and act like real kids - and that's what makes the film so charming.

Movie review: <i>Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time</i>
A big, ballsy, fun and instantly forgettable blockbuster.

Movie review: <i>Paper Heart</i>
A fictitious romance, real people sharing their experiences, and handmade cardboard puppets all come together charmingly in this unique documentary about love.

Movie review: <i>Brothers</i>
The film becomes a worthy tribute to the stress-disordered veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but in the process it's drained of the intense dramatic life that distinguished the original.

Movie review: <i>Camino</i>
The film is inspired by the case of Alexia Gonzalez-Barros, a Spanish boy who died aged 14 in 1985 of cancer of the spine, and is still being considered for sainthood.

Movie review: <i>Robin Hood</i>
In its strident efforts to be historically plausible, this latest Robin Hood may do away with many past traditions, among them the whole robbing from the rich policy of past incumbents.

Movie review: <i>Letters to Juliet</i>
With a script lacking in imagination and a predictable plotline, Letters to Juliet is quite simply overwhelmed by romantic cliches.

Movie review: <i>Please Please Me</i>
Much like last year's Shall We Kiss, director-actor Emmanuel Mouret's latest comedy is centred on the question of infidelity.

Movie review: <i>The Blind Side</i>
Bullock is the force driving this film, she's sassy and funny, interfering and determined...

Movie review: <i>A Single Man</i>
The single man is George Falconer, an expatriate Englishman teaching at a Los Angeles college, and struggling to find a purpose to life after the sudden death of his long-time partner.

Movie review: <i>New York, I Love You</i>
Avoiding the obvious, French producer Emmanuel Benbihy assembles some striking mainly young talents in the Big Apple for a sequel portmanteau film to Paris, Je T'Aime.

Movie review: <i>Still Walking</i>
The new film by Japanese writer-director Kore-eda is an exquisitely slow and finely calibrated study of a family.

Movie review: <i>Sister Smile</i>
Deft but downbeat, this drama is a classy piece of work thanks to a wonderfully deglamorised title-role performance by the lustrous de France.

Movie review: <i>Iron Man 2</i>
The sequel to the movie that raised Robert Downey jnr's star stocks to an all-time-high, arrives just two years after the original.

Movie review: <i>Hot Tub Time Machine</i>
In an attempt to be this year's answer to The Hangover, Hot Tub Time Machine is another "guys gone wild" comedy.

Movie review: <i>The Hedgehog</i>
This prickly philosophy flick is overly cute, writes Peter Calder.