Four stars for Waltz With Bashir

Ari Folman’s film is a mesmerising jumble of flowing graphics so beautifully painted it is hard to believe the ingredients

‘Tis Autumn: the Search for Jackie Paris

A documentary that examines the life of the largely unremembered 1950s performer, and wonders why stardom eluded him

Conversations with My Gardener

An affectionate rural French character piece mercilessly devoid of any message other than an appreciation of close friendship

Blindness

Despite Julianne Moore at her best, this hotly anticipated film from Fernando Meirelles loses its way, says Kevin Maher

Body of Lies

It’s hard to care about Leonardo DiCaprio’s CIA do-gooder in Ridley Scott’s one-note satire, says James Christopher

Choke

This is a confused sex comedy by Clark Gregg that blunders around for 90-odd minutes trying to look butch and sensitive

Quarantine

The tension is a work of art in John Erick Dowdle’s Los Angeles-based shot-by-shot copy of the brilliant fright movie [Rec]

Belle Toujours

You want it to be a timeless triumph, but sadly it’s a minor work and features merely the original Belle co-star Michel Piccoli

Special People

This feature tries so hard to say something profound about disability that it forgets to be a drama in the first place

Fine, Totally Fine - the Sunday Times review

A very Japanese kind of tweeness is the order of the day in Yosuke Fujita’s comedy

Choking Man - the Sunday Times review

Slice-of-life account of the daily grind at a diner in Queens, New York, which also has a streak of artiness

Zack and Miri Make a Porno - the Sunday Times review

Platonic friends try to solve their financial problems by making a porn film

A Streetcar Named Desire - the Sunday Times review

Brando's snarling performance — surprisingly funny in places — is by far and away the main reason to see the movie

Max Payne - the Sunday Times review

Mark Wahlberg trudges through this dull cod-noir fantasy with his standard bemused grimace

The Baader Meinhof Complex - the Sunday Times review

The Baader Meinhof Complex is an earnest history of violence, but fails to show what motivated it

Choking Man

This low-key indie drama from director Steve Barron is somehow more sweetly ingratiating for not being over-dramatised

Hänsel und Gretel

Overcooked emotions in agonising close-up provide incontrovertible proof that cinema and opera are not comfortable bedfellows

The Baader Meinhof Complex

Uli Edel's film walks through a minefield of controversial topics and is well researched but uninvolving, says Wendy Ide

Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Like most of Kevin Smith’s films this is dragged down by his clumsy direction and relentlessly puerile sense of humour

I.O.U.S.A.

This neat and quick-witted documentary about US fiscal policy is as essential a piece of viewing as Al Gore’s climate change film