Beautiful people, beautiful location, decent story and a few niggles.
The Big Lebowski
An excellent stoner comedy with the right mix of brains, laughs and memorable characters. The Coen Brothers’ finest? It’s a close one.
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
An endearingly ridiculous festive treat from Scandinavia that’s certainly more Brothers Grimm than Miracle on 34th Street. It’s a refreshingly unsentimental movie that mercifully lets you keep your Christmas dinner down.
Elling
Think Dumb and Dumber but with more class, laughs and likeability and a valid reason the two main characters act like they do. Would be a comedy classic if it wasn’t Norwegian.
London Boulevard
Having a better cast than usual doesn’t stop this effort descending into stereotypical cockney gangster rubbish. Stay away from this, you c–t.
Animal Kingdom
A refreshingly mature gangster movie from Australia. Characterisation, themes and plot dominate Animal Kingdom and leave no room for the usual childish romanticisation.