La Bohème Dornhelm's production, shot in a Viennese studio, is fairly straightforward, and beautifully sung all round
Bicycle Thieves review – unbearably brilliant tale of poverty and a father’s humiliation Vittorio de Sica’s study of study of a poor man in postwar Rome gives it an authentic sting – banal and a horrible loss of dignity
Lemon Tree This is a highly effective depiction of the daily insults, injuries and injustices visited by Israel upon the Palestinians
The Man From London Though beautiful to look at for a while, Béla Tarr's film is almost entirely lacking in conviction
The Man from London Béla Tarr's film is no conventional cop thriller. It's an arresting nightmare all the same, finds Peter Bradshaw
Love and Honour If Douglas Sirk made films about samurai warriors, this might be the sort he'd make, says Peter Bradshaw
Slow-gestation films Ryan Gilbey on the films that time - or, to be more accurate, the distributors - forgot
Año Uña A moderately enjoyable attempt to make a narrative from actual stills in this story of an edgy friendship
To Get to Heaven First You Have to Die An unconvincing example of a genre that might be dubbed Art House Machismo
The Silence of Lorna There is something admirably pure in the Dardennes brothers' artistic resolve, but also something puritanical
To Get to Heaven First You Have to Die The look and feel of the movie is involving, but the ending is unconvincing in human terms, writes Peter Bradshaw
Mark Kermode’s DVD round-up Wall-E | The X-Files: I Want to Believe | Fred Claus | Cinema 16: World Short Films
Belle Toujours Sequel to Belle de Jour which nails down the mysteries of fantasy and dream life that Buñuel so audaciously left hanging
The Baader Meinhof Complex The story of what drove the Baader Meinhof gang to violence, and the way Germany reacted, makes for a powerful movie
The Baader Meinhof Complex A sprawling, episodic and interminable 70s period drama, ploddingly comparable to Steven Spielberg's Munich