The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros

Philip French: A bittersweet comedy about the friendship between a 12-year-old gay from a family of thieves and an idealistic young cop in the slums of Manila.

Water

Philip French: This is a powerful, deeply moving, well-acted film that falls off somewhat towards the end.

Lunacy

Philip French: There are brilliant moments here and recurrent images of animals’ tongues and slices of meat running amok, writhing, copulating and being turned into mincemeat.

Lunacy (Šílení)

Andrew Pulver: The indefatigable Czech surrealist Jan Švankmajer returns with another weird little tale.

Ten Canoes

Peter Bradshaw: A richly layered folk-myth drama.

Water

Andrew Pulver: A civilised, empathetic and humane treatment of its subject.

Bollywood glitter adds glamour to Yorkshire grit

The white-rose county is rolling out the red carpet for a galaxy of stars after seeing off New York, Sydney and Barcelona to host the Oscars of India's filmland next week, reports Anushka Asthana.

Longing

Philip French: This strange, elliptical work is an extraordinary movie about ordinary people

Dark Horse

Retail: The kind of oddball, plot-free slacker comedy that some will regard as impossibly whimsical, others as winningly silly.

Battle of Algiers

Philip French: A brilliant, openly partisan yet fair-minded account of the early stages of the Algerian war of liberation.

Goodbye Bafana

Philip French: Comes over like an apologia offered in evidence to South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Like Minds

Philip French: Police psychologist Toni Collette is called in to investigate when an upper-middle-class sixth-former at a Yorkshire public school is accused of murdering one of his fellow pupils.

The Battle of Algiers

Peter Bradshaw: It is of its time in many ways, yet somehow more extreme, and more contemporary, than anything else around.