The Headless Woman

The Argentinian moviemaker Lucrecia Martel's story of a hit-and-run is intriguing, but more alienating than moving, writes Philip French

Anonyma: A Woman in Berlin / Winter in Wartime

Philip French on two European accounts of the second world war

Takeshis’

This self-referential comedy from "Beat" Takeshi Kitano is a tiresome, self-indulgent mess, writes Xan Brooks

Memoirs shed new light on La Dolce Vita era of drugs, sex and debauchery

The character played by Marcello Mastroianni in Federico Fellini's classic film was partly based on a gossip columnist now writing his own account of Rome's scandalous 1950s

The Island

Philip French on a visually ravishing, mentally numbing movie set in wartime Russia

Still Walking

A fine Japanese film about a bickering family brings Philip Larkin's most famous line to mind, says Philip French

Still Walking

In the style of the master, Ozu, this is a charming Japanese family film, writes Peter Bradshaw

Treeless Mountain

Two abandoned young girls find solace in their grandmother's country home in this pleasing Korean study, says Philip French

Tokyo Story

Japanese master Ozu's profound film about family ties gets a welcome re-release and bears multiple viewings, says Philip French

Unveiled: the Guardian First Film award shortlist

Andrew Pulver: Here are the 10 films that make up the shortlist for the 2009 Guardian First Film award. Do tell us what you think

My Father, My Lord

Terrific acting is the calling card of this attack on ultra-orthodox views within Judaism, says Philip French

My Father, My Lord

An intensely painful and sombre film about an Orthodox Jewish family, writes Peter Bradshaw

Paa

What India's most famous face is doing under the prosthetics is hard to tell in this Bollywood curiosity, says Cath Clarke

The Sea Wall

This glossy, soapy tale will inevitably trigger fond memories of the once controversial 1992 film The Lover, says Peter Bradshaw