The Burning Plain
Those unacquainted with Arriaga's technique might be led into thinking that the projectionist has put the reels on in the wrong order, writes Philip French
Wonderful Town
It's one of those pictures in which people don't ask obvious questions or provide the kind of information that might clarify their lives
Wonderful Town
An intriguing and engrossing Thai movie
Mark Kermode’s DVD round-up
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas | Quarantine | Linha de Passe
The Class review – miraculously humanist and unobtrusively authentic study of kids in school
Laurent Cantet directs François Bégaudeau’s autobiographical novel about a teacher in a film that avoids all the genre cliches
DVD review: I’ve Loved You So Long
A timely release for the role that brought Kristin Scott Thomas a well deserved Bafta nomination
Hansel & Gretel
This Freudian fairy tale from South Korea reworks the Grimm brothers' story for adults
Femmes fatales fight back with sex and violence
A new movement of hardcore feminism has gripped French culture, but is this liberation or just porn in another guise?
Boogie
A tough, shrewd, intelligent movie
A Christmas Tale
A movie that took me two viewings to understand, and even now I am not sure I have its measure
Slumdog Millionaire
Danny Boyle's undemanding but wildly watchable melodrama excites Peter Bradshaw
Mark Kermode’s DVD round-up
Jimmy Carter Man From Plains | La Antena | Honeydripper
Bicycle Thieves
It's a heartbreaking, endlessly affecting piece of humanist cinema, sharp in its social criticism
Bicycle Thieves review – unbearably brilliant tale of poverty and a father’s humiliation
Vittorio de Sica’s study of study of a poor man in postwar Rome gives it an authentic sting – banal and a horrible loss of dignity
The Man From London
Though beautiful to look at for a while, Béla Tarr's film is almost entirely lacking in conviction