This bizarre and brutal horror film featuring a Josef Fritzl-style storyline adds a misjudged extra-horror factor to its final minutes

• Peter Bradshaw
• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 29 September 2011

There is something puppyishly likable in this romantic comedy starring Anna Faris desperate to snag a marriageable man

• Peter Bradshaw

guardian.co.uk, Thursday 29 September 2011

Reimagining the Smurfs as 'mythical' not fictional is one of many horrors. But it's just a piece of summer silliness, right?

• Peter Bradshaw
• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 11 August 2011

Hyperventilating update of Jane Austen's Emma sees Audrey Tatou scampering about trying to spice up her mum's lovelife

• Xan Brooks
• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 11 August 2011

Yes, yes, cowboys punching aliens in the face can be funny. But it doesn't make this silly endeavour worthwhile, says Peter Bradshaw

• Peter Bradshaw
• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 18 August 2011

Susanne Bier's Oscar-winning drama means well, and ought to feel relevant, but there's just something lacking

• Peter Bradshaw
• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 18 August 2011

Julie Bertuccelli's film is an outrageously twee, spiritual and supercilious drama, set in Australia, about family and grief

• Peter Bradshaw
• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 4 August 2011

The 90s TV series let us into the dark, surreal and downright odd world of Lars von Trier

• Xan Brooks
• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 7 July 2011

A big CGI planet is threatening to wipe out the world – if only it would hurry up and end Lars von Trier's clunky, tiresome film

• Peter Bradshaw
• guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 18 May 2011

A tough, sturdy thriller set in Kinshasa suggests an impressive future for director Djo Munga

• Andrew Pulver
• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 23 June 2011

Natalie Press stars in an overwrought drama full of doomy, portentous and borderline-ridiculous dialogue, says Peter Bradshaw

• Peter Bradshaw
• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 21 April 2011

A bright and snuggly new version of the childhood perennial stays faithful to AA Milne and to EH Shepard's drawings

• Cath Clarke
• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 14 April 2011

• Sherlock has been smart, exciting, and just the right level of confusing. I want more
  
  
• Sam Wollaston
• The Guardian, Monday 9 August 2010

A Canadian-Indian comedy that has gentle but obvious things to say about the clash of cultures

• Andrew Pulver
• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 14 April 2011

Russell Brand, voicing an Easter Bunny who wants to be a rocker is the main attraction of this cruddy kids' film that mixes live action and animation, says Peter Bradshaw

• Peter Bradshaw
• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 31 March 2011

guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 7 September 2010

An extended inter-generational soap with more than a hint of King Lear set in the British-Asian community. It clanks and wobbles, says Xan Brooks

Disney is in uninspired mode for a version of the Grimm fairytale about the hairy heroine. By Peter Bradshaw

Hanging on to the plot of this romcom is less of an issue than hanging on to your lunch. How could you, Nat and Ash?

Clint Eastwood's latest is an unholy embarrassment that everyone involved will do best to forget, writes Peter Bradshaw

• Peter Bradshaw
• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 27 January 2011

It requires a strong constitution, but this grisly satire on social and psychological dysfunction is worth getting your teeth into, says Peter Bradshaw

• Peter Bradshaw
• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 11 November 2010

Affecting documentary about lives lived around the Bosphorus in Istanbul, a bridge between east and west. By Andrew Pulver

Andrew Pulver

guardian.co.uk, Thursday 27 January 2011

Travellers go head to head with City boys in this cruddy British thriller, which might shift units on DVD, says Peter Bradshaw

• Peter Bradshaw
• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 13 January 2011  

As star, co-writer and executive producer, Seth Rogen is to blame for this uncertain superhero action comedy remake that also stars Cameron Diaz. By Peter Bradshaw

• Peter Bradshaw
• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 13 January 2011

The labyrinthine gumshoe movie, with Bogart and Bacall on top form, looks for all the world like something David Lynch might have dreamed up, writes Peter Bradshaw

• Peter Bradshaw
• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 23 December 2010  

Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Barbra Steisand and Dustin Hoffman return in a tired and tiring comedy from a series that has run out of steam. By Peter Bradshaw

• Peter Bradshaw
• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 23 December 2010

Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson return and chastity still reigns in the increasingly turgid vampire and werewolf teen saga. Time for the wooden stake, says Peter Bradshaw

• Peter Bradshaw
• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 8 July 2010

Catherine Zeta-Jones's new rom-com – about an older-woman-younger-man combo - is as soulless and dead-eyed as it gets, writes Peter Bradshaw

• Peter Bradshaw
• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 22 July 2010

Kristen Stewart stars in a lively 1970s biopic about the all-girl American band. By Peter Bradshaw

This cheapo British horror is nasty and pretty much scare-free, despite the gallons of gore, writes Cath Clarke

A sharp teen comedy about a girl who pretends she isn't a virgin boasts a top-notch performance from Emma Stone

A British thriller about a school under siege by vengeful hoodies doesn't quite hang together, writes Peter Bradshaw

• Peter Bradshaw
• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 16 September 2010

Queen Latifah stars in an easygoing romcom with a surfeit of sentiment.

• Peter Bradshaw
• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 16 September 2010

Natascha McElhone is a surprising inclusion in a misery-lit/hardman hybrid. By Peter Bradshaw

• Peter Bradshaw
• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 16 September 2010

A cops v criminals v zombies bloodfest. Sample dialogue: 'Urrgh!', 'Arrgh!'. By Xan Brooks

• Xan Brooks
• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 16 September 2010  

The serial killer is now a dad, too – a perfect example of Dexter's gruesome-but-very-funny modus operandi

• Sam Wollaston
• guardian.co.uk, Friday 20 August 2010

Combining live action and 3D animation, this moggies and doggies caper is a school holidays dog's dinner. By Cath Clarke

• Cath Clarke
• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 5 August 2010

An extended anecdote by 101-year-old Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira. It's creaky but charming, says Steve Rose

• Steve Rose
• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 5 August 2010

Your next box set: South Park

The fifth season of Trey Parker and Matt Stone's anarchic animated comedy is something of a peak, hitting a not-so-sweet spot between gleeful offence and barbed satire

• Catherine Shoard
• The Guardian, Friday 16 July 2010

Jake Gyllenhaal bulks up, Gemma Arterton smoulders – but neither of them can do much with this silly, over-complicated video game adaptation, writes Andrew Pulver

• Andrew Pulver
• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 20 May 2010

Carrie and friends head to the Middle East in a misjudged and incredibly boring sequel

• Peter Bradshaw
• guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 26 May 2010

The IT Crowd

Although the IT Crowd is filmed in front of a live audience, it sounds more like canned laughter and it just makes it sound dated – but then some of the jokes feel dated, too

Sam Wollaston

guardian.co.uk, Friday 25 June 2010

Disney-Pixar's latest has a malign, strawberry-scented teddy and a sad, even class-conscious edge that lifts it into the profound

• Michael Hann
• guardian.co.uk, Monday 21 June 2010

Robin Williams and John Travolta in a beastly Disney comedy. By Peter Bradshaw

• Peter Bradshaw
• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 18 March 2010

Miley Cyrus leaves Hannah Montana, and Dad Billy Ray, behind

This Peruvian lament examining how distress passes down the generations is subtle and wonderfully moving, says Catherine Shoard

Suburban sitcom Outnumbered could easily have flopped. Instead its child stars are up against Charlie Brooker for a comedy award

With their new film Cemetery Junction, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant wanted to create a classic British tale of smalltown escape. Ben Walters goes on set and hears how they left irony behind

• Ben Walters
• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 8 April 2010

Jim Carrey is a fraudster who falls for Ewan McGregor in a Texas jail. Peter Bradshaw enjoys an intriguing, offbeat comedy

• Peter Bradshaw
• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 18 March 2010 22.00 GMT

Return of the lovable family film. By Peter Bradshaw

Michael Moore takes on the bankers in his latest crusading documentary

Tim Burton's gothic treatment of Alice is all-too conventional