HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE

Watchable. No film is capable of giving the books justice. This one, just like all the predecessors, has extracted the most important events skipping all the rest. Luckily it has retained the humour of the book (e.g. Ron Weasley in love or Hermione remarking: "Excuse me, I have to vomit."). Emma Watson as Hermione and Rupert Grint as Ron are getting better and better from one movie to next. Special effects disappointed just as much as in the previous movies althought the opening disasters in London are mind-blowing. The fairy-tale music score which matched the first film well, sounds terribly incongruous in this serious and grim tale. The whole film would have been scripted and acted better if it had been unaware of its expected greatness.

THE PROPOSAL

Recommended. Hilarious from the very beginning (e.g. Andrew bumping into people in the lift: "Is everyone OK? Me too." or staff emails about the boss: "It's here." and "The witch is on the broom."), later on transits into a weepy melodrama with some laughs thrown in here and there (e.g. the granny in the helicopter ambulance). Brilliantly acted and shot.

THE INFORMERS

Recommended. Based on a novel by Bret Easton Ellis - the author of "American Psycho". Good 80s music, lots of good-looking naked bodies. Feels light and entertaining until deep moral dilemmas see through the superficial, happy-go-lucky lives of people who have everything (e.g. Graham realising he can't tell the right from the wrong). Powerful stuff.

THE BLUES BROTHERS

Watchable. Even if some of the music isn't exactly to my taste, this comedy never gets old.

ANTICHRIST (ANTYCHRYST)

Watchable. The trailer was scarier, more mysterious and had scenes missing from the movie (!). It's a lengthy, slow tale leading to a "Hostel"- torture-style climax. Lots of graphic sex. If it weren't so boringly artistic, it could be easily classified as sado porn. Certificate 18.

MOON

Recommended. Feels like old good science-fiction, back to the core of the genre. Gripping, mysterious, scarish, well acted. With music by Clint Mansell.

THE TAKING OF PELHAM 123

Watchable. Fast action, well acted, especially by Denzel Washington. The beginning is about as interesting as a Tube breakdown but it gets really good when it's revealed who the two players actually are.

PUBLIC ENEMIES

Walked out. The typical bandits with typical robberies, a typical interest in brothels and having a typical affair shown in desultory scenes are bad enough but what really ruins this movie is the incongruos soundtrack. It sounds as if the composer had never seen the film or even had any idea what it was about.

LUCK

Recommended. It's as good as "Race" with good as ever Imran Khan. Films about rich people playing others' lives ("Trading Places", "Hostel", "Surviving the Game") are a good bet. This one is one of the kind, with top-notch Bollywood music and superb scenes (e.g. "bringing betting to such levels that even death seems inferior").

KAMBAKKHT ISHQ

Walked out. The premise of a male chauvinist pitted against a female chauvinist was promising but completely ruined by the stupid and unfanny "humour". Mediocre music doesn't help.

THE PRIVATE LIVES OF PIPPA LEE

Walked out. A dysfunctional family that is presented in such an ordinary and monotonous way that it only highlights how much more interesting normal life is.

BRUNO

Watchable. Without disgusting toilet humour it is actually better than "Borat" but of course it outrages all the same. Fast-paced and from time to time laugh-out-loud funny (e.g. the sticky suit).

BLOOD: THE LAST VAMPIRE

Watchable. "Blade" it isn't. The effects, choreography and music are no match. But the main characters of Sayo and Alice are cute and likeable. The high-school plot is fun. The magical part less so.

SHORTKUT - THE CON IS ON

Watchable. Entertaining music and plot. It only gets a bit funny in the second part though (e.g. a bad Bollywood star dancing on strings, being unable to master the steps). But the whole story of a script writer robbed off his movie is touching.

SUNSHINE CLEANING

Watchable. Deep, moving and charming. Non-typical girls with a non-standard job. Left me really sad afterwards though.

ICE AGE 3: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS

Watchable. It has some funny bits (e.g. the weasel trying to milk a buffalo: "Sorry. I thought you were female." or the line: "You will also have a family. One day you will meet a girl with low standards, not many options and without a sense of smell") but not many. The family stories are endearing though. The 3D gives some depth but doesn't come out to the viewer.

YEAR ONE

Watchable. While some jokes are brilliant ("I don't feel like laying with her." "She's your sister." or "I wish you were dead too! Not that Abel is dead at all."), others are just scatological.

NEW YORK

Walked out. Yet another film about an innocent person detained for terrorism, with a lousy love story and bad music. The detention officer is played by the same guy who interrogated the "Slumdog Millionaire".

RUDO Y CURSI

Watchable. Funny, with good twists and some depth but also some disturbing bits (e.g. hazing).

MY SISTER'S KEEPER

Watchable. The film would have been much better as a courtroom drama as the subject of who your body belongs to is fascinating. This premise was ruined by too many melodramatic bits and hysterical Cameron Diaz.