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The Dark Knight

Updated: 17 Jul 2008

Smart directors tend to adopt a one-for-them, one-for-me ideology in their relationship with the studios...

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Updated: 9 Jul 2008

“I’m not a baby, I’m a tumour!” chirps an unusually chatty growth in Hellboy II: The Golden Army. As it happens, this...

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Updated: 9 Jul 2008

Three dimensions are one too many for this flat tale of geological grandiosity starring good-natured B-movie staple...

Hancock

Updated: 2 Jul 2008

If you can remember the seismic upheaval in the superhero order that was ‘Superman III’, during which the square-jawed...

Made of Honour

Updated: 1 Jul 2008

This is by no means the worst addition to the burgeoning genre of the wedding comedy. Patrick Dempsey follows up his...

Wanted

Updated: 25 Jun 2008

So there’s this white-collar drone named Wesley (McAvoy), see? Only his dad was part of an elite assassin squad that’s been...

Get Smart

Updated: 19 Jun 2008

Fidelity to the source is probably not a fair criterion by which to judge a film based on an intermittently funny 1960s television...

The Happening

Updated: 12 Jun 2008

M Night Shyamalan’s mix of modern ecological fable and ’50s sci-fi paranoia is not a happening thing. At first, a great deal happens...

The Incredible Hulk

Updated: 12 Jun 2008

The first thing to say about director Louis Leterrier’s blockbuster monster-movie is that it’s more a stripped-down rerun of...

Jumping on the festival bandwagon

Updated: 6 Jun 2008

The term ‘festival’ is common currency in our nation of celebrations — it might be the Moon Festival one month or the...