How was work today, darling? Murder

Philip French: His name is a byword for cruelty, but a biopic of Genghis Khan depicts him as a god-fearing family man with politics akin to Tony Blair's

Sarkar Raj

Phelim O'Neill: There are no good guys to cheer on in this Indian sequel

Mongol

Peter Bradshaw: A huge epic, weighed down with its own ostentatious importance, about Genghis Khan

Jules and Jim – and me

Peter Preston: Truffaut's masterpiece of cinema still seems as fresh and magical as when it first screened

Three’s a crowd

When Germaine Greer first saw Truffaut's Jules et Jim in the early 60s, Jeanne Moreau's Catherine seemed a woman after her own heart, following her desires rather than the rules. Is she still such a role model?

DVD releases

I'm A Cyborg | Before The Devil Knows You're Dead/The Savages

La Antena (The Aerial)

Peter Bradshaw: This left-field, futuristic film is a tad too indulgent to be a true homage to the silent movie

Heartbeat Detector

Steve Rose:Mathieu Amalric stars in this cerebral corporate thriller with a steadily accumulating sense of dread

Un secret

Philip French: It's a gripping story, extremely well acted, far superior to Truffaut's bogus The Last Metro

A Secret

Peter Bradshaw: A blue-chip cast and handsome stagings do little to prevent this French movie being a muddled, pretentious washout

A taste of love and pain

Eagerly awaited French film Couscous tells the heart-warming, and heart-breaking, story of one man's struggle to save his immigrant family from poverty by opening a fish restaurant

DVD releases

Bonnie And Clyde, 40th Anniversary Edition | Assembly | Charlie Wilson's War | Out Of The Blue | Don't Touch The Axe | Skins: Complete Second Series | Ashes To Ashes