What Just Happened? - the Sunday Times review

In Barry Levinson’s gentle satire on Hollywood, Robert De Niro displays great subtlety as a stressed mogul

Año Uña - the Sunday Times review

Telling of the friendship between a 21-year-old woman and a 14-year-old boy who has a crush on her, it gets precious in places

To Get to Heaven First You Have to Die - the Sunday Times review

All of this is crisply presented, but it’s indistinguishable from the stuff of countless other severe art-house movies

Three stars for Angelina Jolie in Changeling

This true story is stranger than fiction — trouble is, Angelina Jolie never makes it seem real, says Cosmo Landesman

Flawless - the Sunday TImes review

Laura Quinn (Moore) is a smart analyst for a diamond corporation, who discovers that she’s about to be sacked

Four Christmases - the Sunday Times review

Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn play lovers who are each the offspring of now divorced parent

The Silence of Lorna - the Sunday Times review

The character is a desperate Albanian immigrant who has married a wretched junkie purely to obtain Belgian citizenship

Changeling

Changeling is a thoughtful, outstanding real-life child abuse thriller from director Clint Eastwood, says Kevin Maher

Flawless

A pinched, unsympathetic Demi Moore blows her chances of a return to leading-lady status in this wobbly 1960s-set caper

What Just Happened

This Hollywood insider whinge from Levinson is funny in places, but it’s impossible to care about the self-absorbed protagonist

Año uña

This promising debut from the son of the director Alfonso Cuarón lays out a truly insightful near-romance

The Silence of Lorna

The Dardenne Brothers return with their most commercial film to date - it gets dark, but there’s a softly ambiguous conclusion

Four Christmases

This crass comedy extinguishes any seasonal goodwill within minutes – it may be the least festive Christmas film yet made

Año uña

The way thoughts and images slip and slide over each other is inspired, shame the characters are so emotionally monosyllabic

To Get to Heaven First You Have to Die

This is a piece of phallocentric arthouse pabulum masquerading as serious cinema, God knows it couldn’t be any worse

Four Christmases

Seth Gordon’s romantic nonsense film takes a great deal of hard swallowing. The mawkish ending is thoroughly predictable

The Silence of Lorna

The Dardenne brothers’ latest slice of grim Belgian life is a spare and exquisite thriller; the tension grows scene by scene

Flawless

This period movie starring Demi Moore is made to look fatuous and soulless as it coincides with the release of Changeling

The French Connection

William Friedkin's film brought an abrasive documentary-style realism to a genre that had been dominated by slick film noir coppers

Quarantine - the Sunday Times review

Blair Witchcraft is not carried off with great realism but it still adds verve to the film’s set pieces