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Jumper Retail and rental: This is a deeply silly but entertaining sci-fi romp starring Hayden Christensen, says Andrew Pulver |
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No Country for Old Men Rental and retail: The Coen brothers provide an absorbing and tense two hours where everyone is absolutely on top of their job |
Bill Douglas Trilogy
Retail: In the early 1970s Douglas came out of nowhere to make three sequential short films that established a coherent idea of British alternative cinema
The Devil Came on Horseback
Retail: Former US marine Brian Steidle is the central figure of this hard-hitting account of the crisis in Darfur
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Rental and retail: A mighty tragedy about family and corrosive relationships as well as a fatal game of consequences to match that of Fargo.
The Savages
Rental and retail: An unassuming little film that is full of humour, irritation, the unpredictable awkwardness of life and the difficulty of getting along
I'm a Cyborg
Rental and retail:Park Chan-Wook comes up with something entirely different with this bizarre film that's as close as the Oldboy director will ever get to romantic comedy
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Retail: After a long run of disappointments since his 90s triumphs, it's pleasing to report that Tim Burton's gruesome musical adaptation is a thoroughly satisfying view
In the Valley of Elah
Rental and retail: A sombre, grim story about what happens to those we send to war, what they do and what is done to them.
Bee Movie
Rental and retail: A sweet and charming film which provides few belly laughs but plenty of smiles
Law and Order
Retail: This set of GF Newman's four full-length films should take its place in TV's social realism hall of fame
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Retail: It might not challenge Spinal Tap's position as the best spoof rockumentary, but this is an enjoyable slice of silliness
Sharkwater
Rental and retail: Not just another film about sharks looking beautiful and deadly, Sharkwater is a kind of Inconvenient Truth about a species in danger of reaching its own tipping point
The Golden Compass
Rental and retail: The anti-religious position has disappeared, but its central conceit is a delightful idea brought thrillingly to fruition.
Eyes Without a Face
Retail: Georges Franju's film delights in taking you further into the queasy end of horror than anyone in 1960 would have expected
Waitress
Rental and retail: An over-sweet concoction built around a thin rom-com between pie-shop employee Keri Russell and doctor Nathan Fillion
Lust, Caution
Rental and retail: An intriguing combination of spy movie and perverse romance, but it's the subtlety of director Ang Lee's approach that makes it stand out as one of the year's best
We Own the Night
Rental and retail: This latest from James Gray is a rather less dour take on family, corruption and life on both sides of the law in New York's outer regions than his The Yards
Charlie Wilson's War
Rental and retail: A lively and cynical tale about a sybarite senator finding complex ways to vastly increase the budget for Afghanistan's battle against the Soviet Union.
30 Days of Night
Rental and Retail: This vampire movie has a real sense of style, though its set pieces can get repetitive
Out of the Blue
Rental and retail: A striking re-enactment of New Zealand's worst mass killing that makes you feel what it must have been like to be there, and making you very glad you weren't
The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford
Rental and retail: Rather as Italy and Spain once kicked the western back into shape in the 1960s, Australia and New Zealand are raising the genre's bar now
Lions for Lambs
Rental and Retail: This self-important film fails to really come to grips with the Iraq war, although Tom Cruise impresses as a villain
You Kill Me
Rental and Retail: This film is not John Dahl's worst, but fails to scale the heights of his noir classics
El Violin
Retail: This feature debut by Mexican Francisco Vargas centres on the eternal struggle of an indigenous population against military thugs
A Very British Gangster
Rental and retail: Nominated for the grand jury prize at Sundance, Donal MacIntyre's cinematic debut is a direct offspring of his MacIntyre's Underworld TV series.
Why We Fight
Rental and retail: A persuasive polemic, Eugene Jarecki's documentary won the Sundance grand jury prize
The Counterfeiters
Rental and retail: An Oscar-winning Austrian drama that captures the moral dilemma of Jewish forgers forced to work for the Nazi war machine
The Witnesses
Rental and retail: An artful, sometimes beguiling film about the onset of Aids and the radical changes it made in sex lives and friendships
Into the Wild
Rental and retail: A lyrical, tragicomic reconstruction of the journey of a young man who spurned society to set off on a trek into the wilderness
Beowulf
Rental and retail: Robert Zemeckis' third foray into motion-capture technique is probably the year's best movie adapted from an 11th-century epic poem
Planet Terror
Rental and retail: The second half of the Rodriguez-Tarantino Grindhouse double bill has girls and gore aplenty, but feels lost without its partner in crime
Once
Rental and retail: A subtle, very offhand look at how music is made, how friendship can start and how the two may be intimately connected
Brick Lane
Rental and retail: A subtle, sombre and emotional counterpart to the rollicking East Is East
American Gangster
Rental and retail: Ridley Scott's New York hoods tale is solid, thorough and oddly unflamboyant. Sometimes it feels a lot like watching a movie you think you've seen before
Eastern Promises
Rental and retail: David Cronenberg's blistering tale of Russian gangsters in the London underworld
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Rental and retail: No surprise it won the style-over-substance Oscar (aka best costume designer)
Interview
Rental and retail: It might make a decent play but Interview feels more like an actors' workshop than a feature film
Michael Clayton
Rental and retail: The tale of a worm that turned, with the unusual aspect that the burrowing invertebrate in question is George Clooney
The Wayward Cloud
Retail: Tsai Ming-Liang's very strange piece of surreal minimalism won awards but also saw festival audience walkouts
Stardust
Rental and retail: A colourful and lively kids' film that's pitched almost exactly halfway between a Narnia-style fantasy and Shrek-type pisstake of fairy tales
Control
Rental and retail: Anton Corbijn's fine telling of the last years of Joy Division's Ian Curtis
Run, Fatboy, Run
Rental and retail: From the guy who has proved we can make proper comedy movies, this is an awfully big letdown with just a tiny ration of laughs
Cocaine Cowboys
Retail: It's been used liberally for Hollywood plots from Scarface to Miami Vice and Blow, but this documentary version of the vast influx of drugs from South America to Miami is scarcely less startling than the fiction it inspired
Atonement
Rental and retail: A largely accurate transposition of Ian McEwan's novel. The first half works splendidly as a spiky, tragicomical look at the lives and class wars of 1935 in a world soon to change forever
Ratatouille
Rental and retail: Another deft and delightful cartoon from Brad Bird, the plot of which is so supremely silly, you might think Pixar took it on for a bet
A Mighty Heart
Rental and retail: I'd forgotten how good Angelina Jolie could be: nothing since her Oscar-winning role in Girl, Interrupted has called on her to inhabit a troubled character like this and carry a film
The War on Democracy
Rental and retail: John Pilger takes a break from his ITV pulpit for an outing on the big screen, increasingly the natural home of the leftie doc
And When Did You Last See Your Father?
Rental and retail: Jim Broadbent goes from strength to strength with this portrayal of Blake Morrison's dad
Hallam Foe
Rental and retail: Hot on the heels of Hollywood's Rear Window-lite, Disturbia comes this very perverse little Scottish film in which Jamie Bell proves again that not all child stars have to turn into a Culkin or Lohan
Superbad
Rental and retail: Seth and his teenage mates have heard that when girls get drunk, they sometimes sleep with the wrong guy. It is the summit of their ambition to be that mistake
Disturbia
Rental and retail: This different take on Hitchcock's Rear Window, crossed in this instance with a hint of rom-com and a smattering of rites of passage drama, is enjoyable
The Hoax
Rental and retail: A surprisingly enjoyable romp through the second most famous publishing hoax of our times
The Walker
Rental and retail: An absorbing, languidly enjoyable murder mystery starring Woody Harrelson as a gay senator's son who squires political wives to social events
Shoot 'em Up
Retail: This Clive Owen starrer is pure Hard Boiled, but John Woo hasn't been this much fun since Face/Off
Ghosts of Cité Soleil
Retail: This sometimes confusing and often shocking documentary about gangland rivalry in a Port-au-Prince slum is like a real-life version of City of God
Eagle vs Shark
Rental and retail: Made by a Samoan writer-director with Sundance assistance, Eagle vs Shark is a very oddball romcom
Sicko
Rental and retail: After guns, Michael Moore takes on America's other biggest ongoing home scandal: the health system
Knocked Up
Rental and retail: The 40-Year-Old Virgin raised expectations which Knocked Up skillfully meets: the winning run looks set to continue
Death Proof
Rental and retail: Shorn of its other half, Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, and the trailers that made up its original double-feature Grindhouse package, Quentin Tarantino's latest is an intermittently entertaining but strangely pointless piece of work
Shutter
Retail:This creeky, unpredictable debut by youthful Thai co-directors Banjong Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Mongpoom is part mystery, part horror
Sherrybaby
Retail: Another knockout performance by Maggie Gyllenhaal, as a tough but vulnerable junkie out on parole and trying to re-establish a relationship with her daughter
Surf's Up
Rental and retail: A hip, lively and different-looking animation that's more like Creature Comforts than the usual Hollywood fare
1408
Rental and retail: A classy horror film that benefits immeasurably from casting the smart and sardonic John Cusack as the lead
The Simpsons Movie
Rental and retail: This long-promised and long-awaited big screen debut produces everything that has given Springfield's huge cast a grip on our funny bone that won't let up
La Vie en Rose
Rental and retail: Marion Cotillard gets right under the skin of the French singer in a remarkable performance
The Bourne Ultimatum
Rental and retail: A crisply efficient conclusion to the Bourne trilogy, in which our anti-hero discovers, along with the rest of us, who he really is and how he came to be what he is
Transformers
Rental and retail: This is ludicrous stuff, but it knows it and with Steven Spielberg on board as an executive producer and occasional classy actors it knows it's at least part comedy
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Rental and retail: This largely enjoyable piece of piffle about 'nine pieces of eight' and Davy Jones's locker pulls off some surprisingly original and surreal scenes
Night Mail
Retail: Night Mail is one of those odd one-offs that everyone remembers for WH Auden's line: 'This is the night mail crossing the border, bringing the cheque and the postal order'
Hairspray
Rental and retail: A spirited and enjoyable example of the growing film-to-musical-to-musical-film genre, Hairspray remains faithful to John Waters' 1988 original
Shrek the Third
Rental and retail: This awfully tired re-tread really does feel like a contractual obligation
Not Here to Be Loved
Retail: A slight but effective piece by the little-known Stéphane Brizé, this is a French film that seems all too British
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Rental and retail: A rather more straightforward Potter than we've been used to, this fifth film in the series also seems a little less fraught and shadowy
The Good German
Rental and retail: Steven Soderbergh's film suggests strongly that, like many of us, he has muttered to his companion: 'They don't make 'em like this any more' while watching Casablanca or The Third Man
This Filthy World
Retail: An entertaining, freewheeling career summary cum stand-up comedy gig by the director, trial fetishist and bad-taste guru
Les Diaboliques
Retail: This witty, adult thriller from France's mighty pessimist, Henri-George Clouzot, keeps you both gripped and disorientated
Edvard Munch
Retail: Peter Watkins brings his distinctive, documentary-oriented talents to bear on Norway's most famous painter in this 1973 film
Molière
Rental and retail: A smart and lively romcom which takes the sensible idea of imagining that the French playwright used his own life in his work
Die Hard 4.0
Rental and retail: Nobody really needs a part four of anything, but all things considered, this belated return to the explosions-and-more-explosions series works pretty well
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Retail: Werner Herzog comes up with a fascinating and sympathetic character in Dieter Dengler, a German who joins the US airforce only to be captured by the Vietcong
Water
Retail: Deepa Mehta's well-played tale is full of simmering anger and completes a memorable and impassioned cinematic triptych.
Tell No One
Retail: Guillaume Canet's exploration of the aftermath of a murder contains thrilling chase scenes and an impressive central performance by François Cluzet.
Lonely Hearts
Rental and retail: Jared Leto and Selma Hayek are the deadly duo criss-crossing the US, robbing romantically-inclined women on the way.
Black Gold
Retail: A straightforward documentary about the world coffee trade.
I Am Cuba
Retail: Martin Scorsese believes celebrated Soviet director Mikhail Kalotozov's film would have changed the course of cinema if it had been seen in 1964.
Remember Me
Retail: An entertaining exploration of a tempestuous Italian family whose members are forced for the first time to pay attention to one another.
Blue Blood
Retail: This documentary following five hopefuls for the Oxford v Cambridge boxing tournament is full of both cliches and surprises.
The City of Violence
Rental and Retail: This Korean crime drama nods to cowboy and gangster classics, but adds joyful flourishes all of its own.
Spider-Man 3
Rental and retail: A big, baggy tale that takes a whole 140 minutes but is nevertheless an enjoyable enough thrill-ride with some lovely moments.
Vacancy
Rental and retail: What makes Nimrod Antal's film genuinely scary and gripping is that the script and acting are far better than for your routine slasher/shocker knock-off.
Half Nelson
Retail: The excellent tale of an idealistic but crack-addicted white teacher and the latchkey black pupil who befriends him, featuring an Oscar-nominated performance from Ryan Gosling.
300
Rental and retail: 300 is a strange mixture of old and new, but mostly it's muscular Spartans in their pants.
Baraka/Chronos
Rental and retail: Ron Fricke's wordless collage of sequences from around the world still amazes, 25 years after it was first made.
The Lives of Others
Retail: The winner of the best foreign-language Oscar presents the cold, bleak reality of what lay on the other side of Checkpoint Charlie.
Paprika
Rental and retail: An outstanding Japanese animation, different and distinct from both Hollywood and the more familiar style of Studio Ghibli.
Ten Canoes
Rental and retail: Rolf de Heer, director of the extraordinary Bad Boy Bubby, comes up with another memorable tale, in collaboration with an Aboriginal tribe.
Away From Her
Retail: A quietly powerful film from first-time director Sarah Polley that treats Alzheimer's with dignity, subtlety and honesty.
Zodiac
Rental and retail: David Fincher's long, engrossing movie about the San Francisco serial killer contains no weak links but may leave you with a lot more questions than answers.
Magicians
Rental and retail: If you're a fan of Mitchell and Webb's TV series, you should get a fair number of laughs.
The Upside of Anger
Rental and retail: Joan Allen is brilliant as a hard-drinking abandoned wife, but she gets too little support.
Jindabyne
Retail: An edgy, awkward drama from Ray Lawrence, with Gabriel Byrne as the leader of a fishing party which finds the dead body of a young aboriginal woman.
Black Snake Moan
Rental and retail: A deep south melodrama starring Samuel Jackson and Christina Ricci, who spends a fair part of the film chained to a radiator in her scanties and really should have known better.
This is England
Rental and retail: Shane Meadows' tale of 80s skinheads gets its details just right for a convincing recreation of a horrible decade.
Meet the Robinsons
Rental and Retail: This digital cartoon is bland and witless, although technically competent.
