A Christmas Carol

Even Dickens, who didn’t hesitate to call a character "Fezziwig", would have found parts of this adaptation over the top

Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno

In 1964, Henri-Georges Clouzot began shooting Inferno, which was to be a psychodrama about a jealous middle-aged man

The Men Who Stare at Goats

Too shallow for satire and not funny enough for comedy, the infantile Goats is really just a silly absurdist movie

Welcome

The ordeals faced by illegal migrants have been better highlighted in quite a few films than in this French drama

Paper Heart

Paper Heart is not the worst lo-fi love story you’ll ever see, but it’s shown up by all those genuine true-life tales

Jennifer’s Body

Its screenplay is decorated with Diablo Cody’s trademark version of teen slang and full of trying-too-hard coinages

1 Day

A story of rival gangs of black youths in Birmingham, Penny Woolcock’s film has its characters speak in a dense patois

Bright Star

Campion’s lovers won't end up along cinema's other greats like Romeo and Juliet or Katie and Hubbell from The Way We Were

Bright Star

There is something somewhat bloodless about this love story, and something slightly plodding in its telling

Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno

A fascinating glimpse into what went wrong, and a beguiling reconstruction of the film Clouzot was thwarted from making

1 Day

There is hip-hop and grime, and a worrying sense that Woolcock has ditched social realism for dubious gangland glamour

Jennifer’s Body

It has a lot more going for it than Megan Fox’s possessed cheerleader eating boys. For a start, Amanda Seyfried is terrific

The Men Who Stare at Goats

If the whole movie has little profound comment to make on either the military or belief systems, it does so with panache

Paper Heart

This cheeky faux-documentary is all very cute, but for a movie about love it must be said that Paper Heart is paper-thin

A Christmas Carol

Dickens's tale is re-imagined as a helter-skelter action adventure, complete with breathless high-speed tracking shots

The Men Who Stare At Goats

A rapid-fire military comedy that channels the absurdist spirit of Three Kings but is often something else entirely

Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno

A beguiling account of a movie directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot that was scuppered after only three weeks of filming

1 Day

A propulsive hip-hop musical-cum-morality tale that credibly mixes social realism with bursts of musical energy

Welcome

Stories of Britain-bound refugees stranded in France have been told before, but this is moving and humane film-making

Bright Star

In Jane Campion’s painfully anaemic biopic, John Keats is reduced to a whimpering scribbler with a bad cough