There Will Be Blood
"Paul Thomas Anderson's movie about the scramble for oil is a masterclass in how the West was truly sold. It's a marvellously entertaining soap: a sort Dickens does Dallas, without the sex or swimming pools" - James Christoper

4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days
"Every frame of this Romanian drama set in the 1980s about two female students trying to arrange an illegal abortion is brilliantly thought out" - James Christopher

Assembly
"Feng Xiaogang’s epic war film is just about the most impressive one since Saving Private Ryan" - Cosmo Landesman

Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
"Nobody does self-loathing with quite the same dissolute panache as Philip Seymour Hoffman" - Wendy Ide

Cloverfield
"An hour in I started to sweat. And I nearly threw up trying to make sense of the increasingly chaotic and frightening scenes of the gripping climax" - James Christopher

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
"Julian Schnabel has taken the hoary old hospital/disabled drama and given it an art-house makeover, producing something moving and visually stunning" - Cosmo Landesman

Four Minutes
"Chris Kraus's second feature is a marvellous piece of cinema that hides its secrets like a Russian doll" - James Christopher

Half Moon
"The savage drama of the landscape, the indomitable optimism of the people and the passion of the ubiquitous music is universal in its appeal" - Wendy Ide

Happy-Go-Lucky
"Mike Leigh has devised a delightful comedy that sinks its teeth into your heart with unexpected power" - James Christopher

In Bruges
"A witty, wordy film which, for the first half at least, is driven almost entirely by dialogue rather than action" - Wendy Ide

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