Echoes of Home

Schwietert’s film goes beyond yodelling comedy and clichés associated to reveal why it strikes a deep chord with the Swiss

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

It has an excellent cast, but Miller’s tale is too dramatically thin to hold our attention

Ichi

Director Fumihiko Sori cartoonishly delivers Japanese melodrama mixed with flashy anime-style action scenes

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

Paul Schrader devotes two hours of screen time to a tedious nutter, but comes up with an enthralling movie nonetheless

Fired Up

Will Gluck's comedy is a witless film, driven by the cheap, sexist spirit that lowbrow comedies should have left behind

Soul Power

Jeffrey Levy-Hinte’s footage of the music festival staged to accompany the Ali-Foreman world-title bout is captivating

Cloud 9

In the dullest way possible, director and co-writer Andreas Dresen, shows older people are also capable of passionate feelings

Bruno

Bruno’s gross-out humour might make you squirm, but you can’t deny that Sacha Baron Cohen is a brave comic genius

35 Shots of Rum

Claire Denis’s film a bit too low-key to do much to your heartstrings, but it’s a pleasure to watch

35 Shots of Rum

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

Brüno

35 Shots of Rum

Initially understated and seemingly uneventful, it builds into a rich meditation on family, friendship, love and loss

Soul Power

James Brown, Bill Withers and BB King are some of the musical heavyweights in front of an audience of joyful Zaireans

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

Ken Ogata's monumental Mishima speaks nobly of turning his "life into poetry, written with a splash of blood"

Brüno

Fired Up!

In this lamentably unfunny flick a pair of smug and loathsome jocks sign up for cheerleader summer camp

Three stars for The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

Rebecca Hall’s film of her first novel is fundamentally about the barbed-wire dynamics of the mother-daughter bond

Cloud 9

Passion, in this tender, intimate story, is ageless. Inge and her new 70-year-old beau giggle like teenagers

Echoes of Home

A feature-length musical documentary about the Swiss art of yodelling is unintentionally titter-inducing