Baby Mama

This stock comedy squeezes out the infertility jokes with super-market indifference, shame the plot is so dismally familiar

Before the Rains

A radical Indian director, Santosh Sivan, has – for the first time – shot a pukka colonial scandal from a tribal perspective

Quiet City & Dance Party, USA

A double-bill of vérité films, Katz directs these irritating teen romances with the sophistication of a school lollipop man

Lou Reed’s Berlin

Unfortunately, you either get Lou Reed or you don’t. He’s either a legendary music man or a humourless egomaniac

Paris

A delectable Altmanesque ensemble that whizzes around the French capital and through the lives of its characters

Puffball - the Sunday Times review

Not even a guest appearance by Donald Sutherland can liven up this stodgy affair

Meet Dave - the Sunday Times review

Seeking to be deadpan as the captain and robotic as Dave, he exerts too much self-control and condemns himself to dullness

Summer Hours - the Sunday Times review

The film’s social observations arise from a poignant tale of people dealing with the logistics of bereavement

City of Men - the Sunday Times review

A tale of two youths going through personal and communal torments in a Rio favela

CSNY Déjà Vu - the Sunday Times review

A retelling of the band’s feuds over the years would have been a lot more fun

Donkey Punch - the Sunday Times review

The cast is good, but the film lacks dramatic tension and descends into silly improbability as it serves up the mandatory blood and butchery

Standard Operating Procedure - the Sunday Times review

Errol Morris’s investigation into the Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal focuses on the photographs of detainees being grotesquely treated by...

Wall.E - the Sunday Times review

Epic animated sci-fi or Woody Allen as a robot in love? Wall.E falls halfway between the two

Man on Wire: most poignant 9/11 film?

No film about the WTC can play innocent and pretend 9/11 never happened, and this is a fine elegy says Bryan Appleyard

Mad Detective - the Sunday Times review

The film’s freakiness is its be-all and end-all, and pretty entertaining it is too

WALL-E

The film starring a tin box with binoculars for eyes is a heart-swelling, sentimental, hilarious smash hit, says Wendy Ide

Summer Hours (L’Heure d’été)

The narrative of Assayas's picture is not the most gripping as it gets bogged down in the world of French inheritance laws

Mad Detective

The directors juggle competing realities with uncommon flair, this brilliant, funny Hong Kong thriller puts Hollywood to shame

Donkey Punch

Charismatic performances and credible camaraderie set Oliver Blackburn's film apart from traditional slasher thrillers

Standard Operating Procedure

Vague and toothless, Morris’s film fudges central issues about the legitimisation of torture within the American regime