MOVIE OF THE WEEK: There’s just one thing to tip you off about David Cronenberg’s new movie, A History of Violence. The gunshot wounds. In an otherwise straight-looking, straight-talking movie, they stand out like lush and evil-smelling exotic flowers, writes Peter Bradshaw.

MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Oliver Hirschbiegel’s film has been criticised for ”humanising” Hitler. Downfall does precisely this — and makes him seem far more grotesque and sulphurous than any picturesque newsreel documentaries, writes Peter Bradshaw.

MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Shot in the sombre, dark style for which Eastwood’s pictures are notable, Million Dollar Baby has a measured pace that must surely derive from Eastwood’s maturity as a man and a filmmaker. Peter Bradshaw reviews the Oscar-winning film.

b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK: The Motorcycle Diaries is Walter Salles’s fervent, dreamily reverent tale of Ernesto ”Che” Guevara’s legendary gap year, and tells of Che’s pre-revolutionary existence, in its pristine state of idealism, passion and sheer vibrant youth. Peter Bradshaw reviews.

The Incrediblesthe new animation from the mighty Pixar stable (Finding Nemo; Toy Story) really is pretty incredible, Peter Bradshaw reviews.

MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Good Bye Lenin! combines satire of the communist state and its desperate and sentimental delusions and state-sponsored infantilism, with a love story: a boy’s love for his mother, writes Peter Bradshaw.

ROMANCE OF THE WEEK: In a spirit of ”if it ain’t broke why fix it?”, director Beeban Kidron’s sequel reprises almost everything that worked in the first film, but Peter Bradshaw enjoyes Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason nevertheless.

THRILLER OF THE WEEK: Where no one can hear you scream … Open Water embodies both the spirits of Spielberg’s Jaws and Polanski’s Knife in the Water to present a spine-chilling hour and a half of sheer suspense, writes Peter Bradshaw.

NOT THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK: The Village is an absurd and badly plotted thriller that has sent Sixth Sense director M Night Shyamalan’s reputation south like dotcom stock, writes Peter Bradshaw.

NOT THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Did we even need a remake? The 1970s original is not as obsolete as this dire film implies. Peter Bradshaw is unimpressed with the new Stepford Wives that vandalises a gutsy satirical classic.