A Secret - the Sunday Times review

This French drama, told mostly in flashback to the 1940s and 1950s, is that rare thing, a truly adult love story

Honeydripper - the Sunday Times review

It doesn’t have enough gusto to put a song in your heart, but it’s engaging all the same

XXY - the Sunday Times review

Argentinian drama features a teen hermaphrodite whose parents it is time for his/her gender to be surgically redefined

Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? - the Sunday Times review

In the search for Osama Bin Laden, Morgan Spurlock’s lack of authenticity gets him lost in a docu desert

What Happens in Vegas

The gags are tired - does anyone really believe that there is still comedy mileage left in toilet-seat arguments?

Honeydripper

A towering performance from Glover and a sharp script transforms a bluesy melodrama into something far more satisfying

I Served the King of England

This bawdy Czech adaptation of the popular novel by Bohumil Hrabal is great if you are a fan of beer and breasts

Doomsday

Neil Marshall directs the first full-length tribute film, with tedious results. The acting and the script are risible

Manufactured Landscapes

The Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky finds a strange, toxic beauty in these monuments to the global economy

Vexille

A stylish sci-fi tale, with a plot that is considerably easier to follow than some of anime's more arcane ventures

Where in the World is Osama bin Laden?

Morgan Spurlock takes a formless scattergun tour of the Middle East. His conclusions, however, are almost meaningless

Speed Racer

Overlong, eyestrainingly elaborate, and full of action scenes without consequence and questionable incidental messages

Mouth to Mouth

A realistic portrait of a teenage runaway in Europe, but for all its merits, the film is too grim to have wide appeal

Winter Soldier

Shot by an anti-war collective, the film is a harrowing list of decapitations, mutilations, tortures, rapes and murders

Speed Racer

A nonsensical computer-generated racing thriller freaks out James Christopher with its cartoon plastic tackiness

A Secret

Claude Miller’s French film of family intrigue is competently put together, with an impressive cast and quality production

Cashback

This British transition from a short to a feature reveals a very thin plot and a lot of padding, dull and rather boring

Mouth to Mouth

Starring a young Ellen Page as a rebellious teenager, this is an interesting piece of work from British director Alison Murray

Vexille

Striking digital animation, a strong idea and an atmospheric soundtrack make this a most rewarding Japanese sci-fi anime

Doomsday

Neil Marshall’s deranged thriller is basically Mad Max on the motorway to Glasgow as a killer virus ravages Scotland