The Family Friend
Retail: Stylish on the surface, yet grotesque and disturbing in subject matter, this Italian movie is shot with great imagination and sophistication.
Transylvania
Peter Bradshaw: Beautifully shot.
Fanny and Alexander
Peter Bradshaw: A gripping, richly conceived family drama.
Gandhi My Father
Philip French: Tells the extraordinary story of the relationship between Mahatma Gandhi and his eldest son.
I for India
Philip French: A very different view of family life and the 20th-century Indian experience.
Tales from Earthsea
Philip French: The meaning of it all eluded me.
Mother and Son
Retail: A virtual dissertation on the human condition from Russian director Alexander Sokurov.
Tales from Earthsea
Peter Bradshaw: An engaging piece of work by Goro Miyazaki, based on Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea novels.
Daratt
Philip French: A not unfamiliar tale, but sensitively done.
Bamako
Retail: An examination of Africa's problems, which, for once, is filmed by an African, Abderrahmane Sissako, in his own backyard.
Private Fears in Private Places
Philip French: ... tends to affect the heart rather than the funny bone
The Seventh Seal
Philip French: ... an austerely beautiful movie that demands to be seen in the cinema
Private Fears in Public Places
Peter Bradshaw: A carefully arranged, painstakingly furnished movie.
The Seventh Seal
Peter Bradshaw: Ingmar Bergman's dark masterpiece.
Ghosts of Cité Soleil
Peter Bradshaw: Deeply questionable movie.