“You’re an activist not a supplicant,†maintains Alessandro Nivola’s sleazy intellectual, Roland, to his idealistic teen daughter, Ginger (Elle Fanning, convincing), in Sally Potter’s disjointed but good-looking portrait of teenage hormones and family dysfunction in early 1960s London.
It’s bad enough that the lifts don’t work, but now an unknown sniper is picking off the occupants of a bleak tower block.
While the Ice Age series drifts on with ever-diminishing returns, the Madagascar films get better.
Inspired by La Ronde , but more like an enervated remake of Love Actually starring Anthony Hopkins and Rachel Weisz, 360 is a series of interlinked short stories about relationships on different continents.
I’d tell you to forget Sylvester Stallone’s overblown Judge Dredd movie, but you probably already have.
Everything feels off in this eco-friendly fable in which a 12-year-old boy (Zac Efron) searches for a “real” tree to impress earnest Audrey (Taylor Swift). The trees were wiped out by the foolish Once-ler and a wicked capitalist has exploited the town’s lack of clean air for profit. The animation is bright and garish, the humour humourless and the romance lacks charm
JC Chandor’s snappy drama, which bites like Glengarry Glen Ross , centres on Zachary Quinto’s entry-level analyst unearthing a potentially ruinous high-risk project for his wealthy Manhattan firm.
In Jennifer Westfeldt’s shockingly disagreeable romantic comedy, she manages to reduce Jon Hamm (Don Draper), and Kristen Wiig (Bridesmaids), to mere ciphers, with not one decent funny line.
“I was an agent for three years before I realised all models are aliens.” Apart from the odd droll line – and a very amusing Andy Warhol “happening” – a lot of this third instalment feels undercooked, slightly tired, even the perennially perky Will Smith.
You can’t accuse Ben Drew, aka Plan B, of lacking ambition. In his debut film as a writer-director, he flits between numerous overlapping stories, and jumps back and forth in time, as he chronicles the lives of the crack addicts, drug dealers, pimps and prostitutes who haunt a London council estate.