A BUNCH OF AMATEURS

Watchable. A warm-hearted, cheerful story that could be funnier.

INKHEART

Walked out. All fantasy characters look like punks and behave like asbos - hardly a fairy-tale.

RAB NE BANA DI JODI

Watchable. The story is far-fetched and just too romantic but the music is good and I like movies about dancing - it's almost as if I were dancing myself.

WHITE CHRISTMAS

Watchable. Another far-fetched story but the dancing is superb.

A.R.O.G.

Watchable. I don't really get Monty Pythonesque humour but the post-modernist view of parallel history of mankind was captivating.

DEAN SPANLEY

Walked out. About elderly people and for elderly audience only.

THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL

Watchable. Standard science fiction fare. Keanu Reeves is amazing as an alien. The movie unnecessarilly tries to be spiritual at times, without those tedious bits it would be far more gripping.

THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES

Watchable. If it weren't for the absurdly disturbing (first the disfunctional family, then the racist assault) beginning, it would be a magnificent film.

LAKEVIEW TERRACE

Watchable. An interesting storyline, shame many scenes, including the final one, are so naff.

TRANSPORTER 3

Watchable. Much more entertaining than the two previous parts. The fights and chases look great, some lines are really funny (e.g. the owner of a workshop where a few guys have been knocked out: "What am I to do when they wake up?" "It would be good to take the rest of the day off.") but don't expect any logic.

IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE

Watchable. A movie that wouldn't be worth mentioning if it weren't for the last half an hour which is cheesy, life-affirming but with an interesting idea behind: what would other people's lives be without us?

RIVALS (LES LIENS DU SANG)

Watchable. Very 70s-style and it takes half an hour to find out what the main plot actually was but then the film gets much better.

OSMANLI CUMHURIYETI (THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE)

Walked out. Not knowing the genre, I expected an epic historical movie. Instead, "The Ottoman Empire" turned out to be a comedy about an impoverished modern-day sultan of Turkey under American occupation. Sadly, it wasn't funny.

THE CHILDREN

Walked out. All this gore wasn't scary.

BLINDNESS

Watchable. An interesting story with a good suspense. Very depressing though.

CHANGELING

Watchable. 142' long, the first half of which is really monotonous, it gets livelier later and then it gets really good. What kept me watching so long was mostly the motif of the woman fighting against sexist and corrupt authorities. Rang some bells.

MADAGASCAR 2: ESCAPE TO AFRICA

Watchable. Vivid, full of colour animation, good soundtrack, a heart-touching story about coming back home, only the subplot of building and re-building the plane was annoying.

WHAT JUST HAPPENED?

Walked out. A film director's dilemmas after making a flop movie weren't interesting even for me and I worked in the film business in the past myself.

OYE LUCKY, LUCKY OYE

Walked out. Average lives of mediocre people. My own is more interesting, thank you.