Black Hawk Down (2001)

Every cliché of the post-1960s prison movie is taken out and put through its paces, but don’t worry: it’s all in fun

A brilliant and heart-breaking Iranian film that is also a superbly plotted detective story

Denys Arcand’s Decline of the American Empire, a sort of French-Canadian Big Chill, has been given a sequel that far out-classes the original

Kama Sutra by Mira Nair (co-written by Ms Nair and Helena Kriel) stars Indira Varma as Maya and Sarita Choudhury as Tara, two childhood friends in 16th century India who become deadly rivals in love in adulthood. It is an Indian version of the English bodice ripper style of historical romance and altogether tedious in…

Yet another example of gore, black humor and special effects that only has contempt for the non-special but desirable effect of explaining what is going on

This is the best version of J.M. Barrie’s classic that there has ever been on film, and maybe in any medium