Want to know what movies to watch? Read reviews of Cyrus, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Switch
Cyrus
This amiable but undernourished romcom has John C Reilly and Marisa Tomei as two second-timers enjoying new love. But Tomei’s 21-year-old son Cyrus (Jonah Hill), a strange lad with a spherical physique and a glazed, earnest demeanour, doesn’t respond well to no longer being the man of the house, and Reilly’s character does not respond well to his not responding well.
The film goes for naturalistic acting and wry observation, and doesn’t quite give us enough of anything. — Steve Rose, Guardian
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
First of the late Stieg Larsson’s bestselling trilogy, the adaptation is a forensic procedural with explicit violence, sex, sexual violence, violent sex and crime-scene photos of the sort that were once never shown.
Michael Nyqvist plays a reporter facing an unjust prison sentence, hired to solve the mystery of a disappeared niece.
He teams up with a super-sexy computer hacker (Noomi Rapace). It’s slow to rev up, but then director Niels Arden Oplev really socks it over. — Peter Bradshaw, Guardian
The Switch
Jennifer Aniston’s insipidness seems to have rubbed off on all her fellow cast members here.
She plays a single woman who, after several failed relationships, decides to enlist a sperm donor so she can have a child, but the sperm gets switched.
Jason Bateman plays her best friend. Aniston’s performance is predictably dull; Bateman’s is disappointingly so.
The tagline calls this “The most unexpected comedy ever conceived”– perhaps because you shouldn’t expect too much comedy. — Lisa Steyn