Fanny and Alexander

Peter Bradshaw: A gripping, richly conceived family drama.

Tales from Earthsea

Philip French: The meaning of it all eluded me.

Philip French: Tells the extraordinary story of the relationship between Mahatma Gandhi and his eldest son.

Philip French: A very different view of family life and the 20th-century Indian experience.

Retail: A virtual dissertation on the human condition from Russian director Alexander Sokurov.

Peter Bradshaw: An engaging piece of work by Goro Miyazaki, based on Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea novels.

Philip French: A not unfamiliar tale, but sensitively done.

Retail: An examination of Africa's problems, which, for once, is filmed by an African, Abderrahmane Sissako, in his own backyard.

Philip French: ... an austerely beautiful movie that demands to be seen in the cinema

Philip French: ... tends to affect the heart rather than the funny bone

Peter Bradshaw: A carefully arranged, painstakingly furnished movie.

Peter Bradshaw: Ingmar Bergman's dark masterpiece.

Peter Bradshaw: Deeply questionable movie.

Peter Bradshaw: A visually striking, provocative dish served up with the most horrid ingredients imaginable.

Peter Bradshaw: Very moderate sub-Stoppardian speculation about the great French playwright.