The Duplass' Brothers are carving a name out for themselves as the indie comedy kings, dividing audiences and firing out at least one shambolic film a year, but this little gem is their greatest achievement yet. A sort of slacker comedy about a man named Jeff (Jason Segel), who lives at home, of course, under the watchful eye of his working mother (Susan Sarandon)…

Alfred Hitchcock (A nearly more prosthetic than man performance by Anthony Hopkins) is about to begin work on his 1960 shocker Psycho much to the dismay of his studio, friends and his wife and parter Alma (Helen Mirren). The source novels horrible content (based on the life of serial killer Ed Gein) would prompt the studio to pull out of financially backing it seeing a commercial suicide and critical failure…

A frequently funny and often shocking Western transposed to a tonally uneven comment on the Southern American Slave trade has already offended many who claim that Tarantino's giddy love for cinematic violence and his homage heavy scripting is no base to set a top the depiction of a holocaust…

Zero Dark Thirty is not concerned with presenting it as a blind flag waving action suspense movie and instead looks at an almost fruitless decade long search for Osama Bin Laden, warts and all…

Andrew Dominick's own adaptation of  George V Higgins' Cogan's Trade is transposed to an unnamed city 2008 and repetitively uses the US election being fought at the time to punctuate its tense conversations to mesmerising effect…

Producer/Director Judd Apatow’s latest finds Knocked Up sub-plot couple Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann) facing the big four oh, money problems and their quickly growing, rebellious children…

Jacques Audiard's continues his unbroken run of spectacular dramas with this unique, touching and seriously tense love story, walking a miraculous line between the entertaining and the nearly unwatchable. ..

It's safe to say that Jennifer Lawrence is some of the hottest property in Hollywood at the minute. Oscar Nominated and star of the surprisingly great blockbuster Hunger Games she's already shown her versatility and audience pulling power. This just released paint by numbers horror film maybe isn't what she needed at this point in her career, but considering it was shot back in 2010 and brought out last month, it'll probably do little to damage…

A showcase of wasted money, superficiality and excess coated in zero taste by way of the American dream, The Queen of Versailles will enrage and please in equal measure with its thick layer of schadenfreude…

Wu-Tang's RZA and Eli Roth have written and produced this messy little Kung Fu film which although good fun is a bit of a catastrophe. Rza directs himself as a blacksmith in early century China who ends up stuck between a rock and a hard place when he feels compelled to help the man who lost his father to the blades of his own forged weapons…

Michael Haneke's second Palm d'Or in as many years is a powerful, deeply sad chamber piece about the gradual disintegration of a life of love. It's something we all must face at one time or another and for that reason often it's wound around cliché and sentimentality within the realms of film…

Errol Morris' seventh and perhaps least known documentary work is a difficult tale. The opening sequence of Fred Leuchter sitting amongst machinery in a cage, lit by flashes of electricity may seem a tad too Dr Frankenstein and way too over the top, especially when you meet the mousey cowardly man at its centre…

Andrey Zvyagintsev's third feature constructs an intimate and subtle study of a woman from a poor background who has remarried a highly successful retired business man. Each of them are strangely detached and disinterested in the others children from previous marriages; Our Elena (Nadezhda Markina) has a quiet hatred for Vladimir's (Andrey Smirnov) spoiled daughter Katerina (Elena Lyadova) and in turn he is stubborn and moralistic when it comes to helping out Elena's lay about son, Sergey (Aleksey Rozin)…

Jay Roach turns his gross out comedy hand to the political campaign battle ground in the American south with this Will Ferrell vs Zach Galifianakis flick. Though the laughs are sporadic and mostly obvious they are present and the pair face off well, with Ferrell's primal hot headed style and Galifianakis's sweet fool schtick helping this rather average comedy balance itself out…

Kirby Dick's documentary about the sexual abuse epidemic within the American military service is filled to the brim with jaw dropping statistics. Statistics so vile and heartbreaking that they deepen the stories in his very personal and insightful work by adding the faces of thousands and thousands of unseen and unheard victims to the ones interviewed in The Invisible War…

Benh Zeitlin's kinetic and wondrous deep south fairy tale has become a bit of a smash hit even with very few screens receiving reels of it this year. Never the less, the buzz around it continues to grow and rightly so. It's a mesmerising debut, filled up with magic, fantasy and a stirring Cajun score which buoys the film often into moments of eye watering joy...

Bart Layton's mesmerising documentary takes a seriously thrilling look the unbelievable true story of a French con man and the lie he pursued into oblivion. The tale of enigmatic sociopath Frédéric Bourdin and his deception of a small Texan family in the 90's made headlines all over the world after he posed as their 16 year old missing son 3 years and a half years after his disappearance…

John Hillcoat's spirited "western" focuses on three illicit liquor barrens, the real life Bondurant brothers in prohibition-era Virginia. Though the film is wonderful to look at and a surprisingly strong performance by Shia Labeouf and an unsurprisingly strong performance by the hulking Tom Hardy, make it worthy, it's snappy violence and family drama make it seem slightly empty…

Ben Affleck's brilliantly written and assuredly directed comedy thriller is already surrounded by multiple Oscar rumours. The actors third feature behind the camera is certainly his most ambitious yet and he truly succeeds in handling a tricky balance of laughs and power…

The fraying threads of interweaving tales are more on show than the threads themselves in Fernando Meirelles' multi layered 360. Penned by English man Peter Morgan the film takes it cues from Alejandro González Iñárittu and Guillermo Arriaga's many efforts to interconnect international lives and tragedies and from Max Ophüls' masterful La Ronde…