Movie of the week: I’m So Excited
Pedro Almodóvar’s new film is a cheeky comedy about stressy homosexuals in an aeroplane going round and round in the sky without getting anywhere.
Movie of the week: Star Trek into Darkness
JJ Abrams’ new Star Trek installment is as glitzy as his first, but it’s Benedict Cumberbatch as a mysterious new foe that fuels this outing.
Movie of the week: 'On the Road'
Your enjoyment of the movie adaptation of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" will depend on your frame of mind as you walk into the cinema.
Movie of the week: Shadow Dancer
James Marsh’s movie is calm, level, downbeat. The tension is subtle — perhaps subtler than it really should be.
Movie of the week: 360
360 is rich with human life and the textures of our fractured, disparate worlds
Not the movie of the week: The Great Gatsby
The main action in the movie is its visual effects, beside which the sad strivings of the mere humans in the narrative are as chaff in the wind.
Movie of the week: Stoker
South Korean director Park Chan-wook makes his English-language debut with an outrageous quasi-remake of Hitchcock's 1943 thriller Shadow of a Doubt.
Movie of the week: This is 40
The ingredients are in place for a very enjoyable, smart, fluent comedy with wittily managed moments of sadness and bittersweet regret.
Not the movie of the week: Trance
Danny Boyle's 'Trance' is frankly a disappointment: a strident, chaotic, frantically overcooked film.
Movie of the week: Oblivion
Despite copying from or echoing other movies throughout, Oblivion is not a dully derivative film, writes Shaun de Waal.
Movie of the week: Seven Psychopaths
Quentin Tarantino may have introduced the idea of chatty assassins, bantering along with hilarious banality, but Martin McDonagh surely perfected it.
Not the movie of the Week: Red Dawn
The new Red Dawn, vintage 2010 but held back from release while it was reworked, does not appear to have been written or directed by anyone.
Fanie Fourie’s Lobola pays tribute to romcoms
South Africa doesn’t make a lot of romantic comedies. That’s probably because they’re actually rather hard to do, or at least hard to get right.
Non-serious movie of the week: Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters is preposterous fantasy entertainment for people too young to care about hyphens, writes Shaun de Waal.
Movie of the week: Zero Dark Thirty
This is an effective thriller, uninterested in anyone other than the home team.
Movie 43: When big stars go cheap
Movie 43 has been called the “worst film ever” and the “biggest waste of talent in cinema history”.
American movie of the week: Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln's second term has been brought to the screen by Steven Spielberg as a fascinatingly theatrical contest of rhetoric and strategy.
Movie of the week: Argo
'Argo', Ben Affleck's new movie as a director, is an amazing real-life caper straight out of 'Ripley's Believe It or Not!'
Musical of the week: Les Miserables
The film conquers its audience with weapons all its own: not passion so much as passionate sincerity; not power so much as overwhelming force.
Movie of the week: Django Unchained
Quentin Tarantino's brilliant and brutal revenge western is a wildly exciting return to form and a thrilling adventure in genre and style.
