Mountain Patrol

Peter Bradshaw: The sheer power and majesty of Lu Chuan's images command attention.

Johanna

Xan Brooks: Bewitching and ludicrous in about equal measure.

Krisana

Xan Brooks: An extended meditation on suicide.

Shanghai Dreams

Xan Brooks: Semi-autobiographical account of the displaced city workers who were moved inland as part of Mao's cultural revolution.

Hell

Retail: Referencing Greek mythology, it all seems too glossily precious to grip, though there's nothing wrong with the acting.

Look Both Ways

Peter Bradshaw: Insipid, parochial, laboriously acted and just plain dull.

Stray Dogs

Peter Bradshaw: The film has a settled habit of withholding its meaning, withholding dramatic satisfaction, withholding any tonal resolution.

Innocent Voices

Philip French: The period is vividly recreated and the point of view of a lad approaching that dangerous 12th birthday well sustained

Innocent Voices

Peter Bradshaw: Another of those films intent on telling you something you already know.

Woman of the Dunes

Retail: An entomologist studying insect life in a remote desert stays with a local widow whose house is at the bottom of a sandpit, accessible only by a rope ladder. But overnight, the ladder disappears.

The Child

Retail: The Dardenne brothers shoot chronologically in an unfussy style that fair rattles along at a time when so many films seem bloated and flabby.