Sakuran

With its flashy style, sugar-candy colour schemes and outrageous inventions, Ninagawa's movie has punk bravura

Ben X

A fitfully gripping Flemish drama about a teenager diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome which badly lets itself down

Times and Winds

Clever, haunting and poetic, this stark coming-of-age tale is a hymn to the pain of growing up, says Peter Bradshaw

The Banishment

This confused Russian thriller hints at greatness, but never achieves it

Paris

Philip French: A disappointing attempt to make a movie that captures the whole of the city's life through some dozen or more local characters

Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame

Though it fails to hit the mark dramatically, this film's clear-cut sense of injustice make it ideal for older kids

Paris

The latest film about the capital is a little too in love with itself

Summer Hours

Philip French: A quiet, carefully observed movie by writer-director Olivier Assayas, a former Cahiers du cinéma critic