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Film picks

7 Jan 2009:

Paul Howlett on Working Girl (Sky Movies Comedy), Ocean's Thirteen (Sky Movies), and If... (Film4)

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

4 Jan 2009:

A down and dirty movie, full of gutter poetry and nods to Ford's The Searchers and Treasure of the Sierra Madre

The Spirit

4 Jan 2009:

The film often looks good, but with an incoherent narative, the public is unlikely to clamour for a sequel

Che: Part One

4 Jan 2009:

The first part of Steven Soderbergh's two-movie life of Che Guevara is enthralling, writes Philip French

Joe

3 Jan 2009:

Joe was Peter Boyle's break-out performance, and one so good he makes the rest of the cast look like amateurs

The Spirit

2 Jan 2009:

Frank Miller's adaptation of the antique comic strip by Will Eisner is brash, noisy and so alarmingly ill-paced that it should with a software package that allows viewers to recut it as they see fit

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

2 Jan 2009:

A film renowned for its violence, Garcia unfolds at a leisured, almost lugubrious, pace says Peter Bradshaw

Sweet and easy to digest

2 Jan 2009:

Creators of Wallace and Gromit, Aardman animations, latest film is a government commission to fight obesity

The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants 2

2 Jan 2009:

Think of this as a sort of mild indoctrination for teenage girls into the sappy romances says Cath Clarke

The Reader

2 Jan 2009:

Kate Winslet is good as a former Auschwitz guard, but she can't save Stephen Daldry's shallow adaptation of Bernhard Schlink's novel. By Peter Bradshaw