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Nativity!

Debbie Isitt’s film is a plucky, well-meant enterprise that is reliant on its audience’s festive goodwill

Paranormal Activity

It’s being touted as the new Blair Witch Project, but this isn't a horror movie, it's a haunting look at relationships

Bunny and the Bull

This surreal road movie offers a visually inventive cartoon fantasy; it’s the characters and dialogue that don’t quite work

Law Abiding Citizen

As a man out for revenge, Gerard Butler has no menace, but what really sours the film is the sadism of its violence

Séraphine

In its best moments, this biopic of Séraphine Louis wonders at the rapturous state in which she creates her art

Mr Right

Directed by Jacqui Morris, this British comic drama about the dating game sends out some confusing signals

Séraphine

Based on the life story of outsider artist Séraphine de Senlis, the film is handsomely mounted and skilfully constructed

Nativity

A five-year-old could predict the story arc — given the improvised nature of the film, a five-year-old probably did

Paranormal Activity

The debut director Pell proves a master manipulator who can imbue everyday objects with terrifying significance

Bunny and the Bull

Designed to perplex, engage and infuriate, this madcap Britcom doesn’t make sense until well into a second viewing

Law Abiding Citizen

This violent revenge thriller is compelling but preposterous, a serviceable Seven knockoff, but without the style

Séraphine

Yolande Moreau is a revelation in this biopic of Séraphine Louis -charlady by day, modern primitive artist by night

Law Abiding Citizen

Revenge flicks have always been one of the more questionable genres but it’s hard to think of one more toxic than this

Mr Right

This must be the first gay movie that manages, by virtue of its overwhelming ineptitude, to be curiously homophobic

Nativity

The film combines the upbeat onslaught of a Richard Curtis movie with the car crash amateurism of the X Factor audition

Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones disappoints

Set against the artifice and the manipulative tendencies of the story, Saoirse Ronan's admirable performance is rather swamped

Machan

Uberto Pasolini, a producer of The Full Monty, makes directorial debut with another story of men hatching an unusual plan

A Serious Man - the Sunday Times review

This film from Coen brothers Joel and Ethan plays out like one of those smart, offbeat and funny HBO television series

The Twilight Saga: New Moon

In Stephenie Meyer’s saga Bella (Kristen Stewart) looses Edward (Robert Pattinson), but is comforted by a 'werewolf'

The Sea Wall

This drama is based on the memoir by Marguerite Duras. Huppert has a thankless role, but she plays it unapologetically