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The Invention of Lying, Ricky Gervais, Matthew Robinson, 99 mins, (12A)
Ricky Gervais's satire of America has a clever concept – only one person in the world is capable of lying – but its edge is blunted by too many soft touches as it drifts towards romcom
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Vinyan, Fabrice du Welz, 97 mins (18)
The Beaches of Agnès, Agnès Varda, 110 mins (18)
Army of Crime, Robert Gu�diguian, 139 mins (15)
Sunday, 4 October 2009
There's a rumble in the jungle but it's blissful on the beaches
DVD: Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, For retail & rental, (EIV)
Sunday, 4 October 2009
Having drunkenly railed against the institution of marriage on the night before his brother's wedding, Matthew McConaughey's Lothario is taken on a whistle-stop tour of his past and future love life by three spooks who concentrate on his childhood sweetheart, Jennifer Garner.
DVD: Fighting, For retail & rental (Universal)
Sunday, 4 October 2009
This bare-knuckle boxing drama stars Channing Tatum as a quick-fisted Alabama lunk and Terrence Howard as the hustler with a heart who mentors him.
DVD: Chuck – Season Two, For retail & rental (Warner)
Sunday, 4 October 2009
How to stop yourself talking when a rogue CIA agent is torturing you? Faint.
The Invention of Lying (12A) (Rated 2/ 5 )
Friday, 2 October 2009
This self-flattery fails to deceive us
The Army of Crime (15) (Rated 4/ 5 )
Friday, 2 October 2009
A sombre and gripping account of guerrilla fighters in Paris during the Nazi occupation, its difference being that this brave band were not French but a coalition of Jewish �migr� and communists (Poles, Italians, Romanians) who loved their adopted country.
The Beaches of Agnes (18) (Rated 2/ 5 )
Friday, 2 October 2009
This patchwork self-portrait charts the life and work of the French New Wave director Agnès Varda: it's basically "bits of memory, jumbled up", interwoven with her special fondness for the Belgian coast where she grew up.
District 13: Ultimatum (15) (Rated 2/ 5 )
Friday, 2 October 2009
A follow-up to the hyperkinetic District 13, which also introduced cinemagoers to the breakneck speed and agility of parkour (aka free-running), this brings together the original's buffed stars, Cyril Raffaelli and David Belle, in a Parisian conspiracy thriller of frankly preposterous dimensions.
Driving Aphrodite (12A) (Rated 1/ 5 )
Friday, 2 October 2009
Nia Vardalos, star of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, here reprises her part as a Greek-American singleton in what might as well be called My Big Fat Greek Package Holiday.
Pandorum (15) (Rated 2/ 5 )
Friday, 2 October 2009
Paul W S Anderson produced this stranded-spaceship thriller, so expect variations on his earlier Event Horizon, Resident Evil and Alien vs Predator.
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