Gaylene Preston's family tale is a touching Kiwi wartime classic, writes Peter Calder.

The most intriguing thing about this romantic comedy is how it managed to attract such a good cast.

Get the tissues ready, Dear John is a quite deliberate tear-jerker.

Killer thriller: A tasty policier starring Diane Kruger.

Michael Winterbottom's newest movie has a promising premise but the film that results is all style in search of story.

Something you don't expect to see in yet another film about resistance heroism in Nazi-occupied Europe: a stagecoach chase.

Bloody, brainy and British - a superhero movie reinvented as gory comedy works out surprisingly well, writes Russell Baillie.

With its crude, tasteless humour set against an underlying sweet and heartfelt story, She's Out of My League is straight out of the Judd Apatow school of comedy, mixed with the buddy flick element of The Hangover.

An affair to remember.

Stock standard tear-jerker.

Be prepared for some tense scenes in Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker.

Nanny McPhee's back, wart and all.

There are some lovely moments and funny sequences in this wacky satire about the use of psychics within the American military, but The Men Who Stare at Goats never quite reaches its potential to be a laugh out loud film or a sharp po

Based on the best-selling kid's book by Cressida Cowell, How To Train Your Dragon comes wonderfully to life on the big screen thanks to fabulous 3D computer animation, great voices, a story full of adventure, and plucky young her

Taika Waititi calls this his first feature, even though it arrives after the lovably deadpan Eagle vs Shark.

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The Karena family dynamics are captured on film.

The dancing sequences are sublime in Mao's Last Dancer.

Twilight star Robert Pattinson proves he's more than just every teenage girl's favourite vampire.

It's not just because of fancy 3D computer graphics that Tim Burton's Alice and Wonderland is the closest to what Lewis Carroll saw when he wrote the book.

On paper, it's hard to imagine Travolta and Rhys Meyers together, but on screen they have a nice thing going.

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Mist twists through vast woods inhabited by gaunt gypsies and fangs shred human flesh, but in the end, the evening news is scarier than this remake of the 1941 werewolf thriller, Wolfman.