Requiem

Peter Bradshaw: Metaphorically addresses a very modern fear, the fear of the old in the face of the young.

Loulou

Peter Bradshaw: Effortlessly watchable.

Gabrielle

Peter Bradshaw: The unfathomable mystery of marriage is the subject of Patrice Chéreau's handsomely furnished movie.

The Host review

Beautifully and even subtly made. Maybe even a bit too beautifully and subtly

Pistol Opera

Retail: Pistol Opera is as gorgeous as it is mostly incomprehensible, mixing English nursery rhymes and dialogue and kabuki-style stage performances with lots of bloodless killing

Container

Philip French: Lukas Moodysson made a fine directorial debut but this film is painful to watch and listen to.

Be With Me

Philip French: The film's saving grace is the moving performance by 61-year-old Theresa Chan playing herself.

Be With Me

Peter Bradshaw: A quiet, graceful little film.

Container

Peter Bradshaw: Fantastically dull collection of grainy monochrome images.

Warrior King

Retail: Pinkaew throws in a murderous ladyboy and a gang of thugs and it turns into a police procedural, but after a while it settles for being a series of set-pieces loosely strung around an optional plot. It zips by pleasantly enough, though.

Now you see him …

Philip French: I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed is a clever political thriller that re-examines the 'disappearing' of a Moroccan radical in 1965

Danièle Huillet

Obituary: Experimental film-maker who challenged cinematic language.

Frozen Land

Philip French: Not only Finns will head for the nearest bar after this handsome, well acted story of cold hearts, paralysed emotions and numb spirits in a wintry Helsinki.

Man Push Cart

Peter Bradshaw: Ultimately elusive and underpowered.