Fine, Totally Fine - the Sunday Times review

A very Japanese kind of tweeness is the order of the day in Yosuke Fujita’s comedy

Choking Man - the Sunday Times review

Slice-of-life account of the daily grind at a diner in Queens, New York, which also has a streak of artiness

Zack and Miri Make a Porno - the Sunday Times review

Platonic friends try to solve their financial problems by making a porn film

A Streetcar Named Desire - the Sunday Times review

Brando's snarling performance — surprisingly funny in places — is by far and away the main reason to see the movie

Max Payne - the Sunday Times review

Mark Wahlberg trudges through this dull cod-noir fantasy with his standard bemused grimace

The Baader Meinhof Complex - the Sunday Times review

The Baader Meinhof Complex is an earnest history of violence, but fails to show what motivated it

Choking Man

This low-key indie drama from director Steve Barron is somehow more sweetly ingratiating for not being over-dramatised

Hänsel und Gretel

Overcooked emotions in agonising close-up provide incontrovertible proof that cinema and opera are not comfortable bedfellows

The Baader Meinhof Complex

Uli Edel's film walks through a minefield of controversial topics and is well researched but uninvolving, says Wendy Ide

Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Like most of Kevin Smith’s films this is dragged down by his clumsy direction and relentlessly puerile sense of humour

I.O.U.S.A.

This neat and quick-witted documentary about US fiscal policy is as essential a piece of viewing as Al Gore’s climate change film

Max Payne

This adaptation is not clever, but it is highly crafted. It doesn’t need to exist, but it does what it does quite well

A Streetcar Named Desire

Elia Kazan’s terrific 1951 masterpiece is a matchless pleasure. Marlon Brando rips the scenery apart as Stanley Kowalski

Two stars for The Baader Meinhof Complex

The man who laid bare Hitler in his bunker has his sights on the far from glamorous German terrorists, says Wendy Ide

Fine, Totally Fine

Picturesque in an exaggerated, highly coloured comic-book style, the film is undercooked in terms of character and narrative

Choking Man

Steve Barron’s small and gritty drama is both creepy and original, with some compelling performances from its stars

Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Seth Rogen is an unconvincing romantic hero in the most soppy and unsexy skin-flick ever made, finds James Christopher

The Warlords - the Sunday Times review

Two big stars of Hong Kong cinema, Jet Li and Andy Lau, team up in the director Peter Chan’s historical epic

Easy Virtue - the Sunday Times review

More frothy than sparkling, Easy Virtue has a surprisingly good performance from Jessica Biel, but, alas, no bite

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies - the Sunday Times review

OSS 117 is the code name of a Bond-like French secret agent