Mutant Chronicles - The Sunday Times review

Mutant Chronicles is everything the title promises, but not in an exciting X-Men vein

City of Ember - The Sunday Times review

Fans can cheer through the glaringly obvious plot and enjoy brief glimpses of character actors paying the mortgage

Gunnin’ for that #1 Spot - The Sunday Times review

It’s no Rumble in the Jungle, but it’s fun enough

Bigga than Ben: A Russian’s Guide to Ripping Off London - The Sunday Times review

Dark, funny, charming, fast, immoral, decadent and delightful, the writer and director Suzie Halewood’s film is a fresh blast of foul air

Mirrors - The Sunday Times review

Yes, I know it’s meant to be some sort of comment on our narcissistic consumer society, but it’s not even scary

Gomorra - The Sunday Times review

The title suggests a depiction of human depravity on a biblical scale

The House Bunny - The Sunday Times review

This is one unfunny, vapid bunny I’d like to boil

City of Ember

If it feels a bit ho-hum, it might be because the premise is the sort of thing Doctor Who can cope with inside 50 minutes

Bigga Than Ben

Barnes is a surprisingly convincing rapscallion, as the first half of the film gets us rooting for these artful dodgers

Gomorrah

The arcane codes are intricately explored, while the casual violence is approached with a chilling nonchalance

Mirrors

This remake of the Korean film Into the Mirror is an exercise in laughably earnest nonsense that barely rustles up a chill

Nights in Rodanthe

A little short to provide a good wallow, the film has to make do with Lane's presence and Gere's squinty emoting

Tu£sday

The circular narrrative - which depicts a plot to steal a valuable emerald - has enough tricks to sustain interest

The House Bunny

Despite a smattering of goofily ironic one-liners, Wolf has delivered a film that is more clueless than Clueless

Tu£sday

Inspired by the classic Brit crime movies of the Sixties and Seventies, it fails to match them in tension or quality of writing

Bigga than Ben

Halewood's film is a depressing, grubby-looking little film with an undercurrent of particularly mean-spirited misogyny

Mutant Chronicles

A screenplay that sounds like it was hewn from chunks of wood, everyone comes out of this battle looking equally inept

City of Ember

This quirky film looks like a Heath Robinson experiment; it is too sour for young children, and too moth-eaten for teenagers

Gunnin’ for That #1 Spot

Adam Yauch’s documentary hinges on a famous annual basketball match between up-and-coming college stars in New York

Mirrors

Here, Alexandre Aja has gained a budget and lost some of the raw, 1970s-style effectiveness of his earlier film