• 2011
• US
• 87 min
• U

• Directed by: Mike Mitchell
• Written by: Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger
• Cast: Jason Lee, David Cross, Jenny Slate, Andy Buckley, Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, Alan Tudyk, Jesse McCartney, Christina Applegate, Anna Faris, Amy Poehler

The singing chipmunk trio and their friends the Chipettes find themselves marooned on a desert island.

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• 2012
• US
• 113 min
• 15

• Directed by: Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg
• Written by: Jon Hurwitz
• Cast: Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan, Seann William Scott

The American Pie gang have a 13-year reunion and contemplate some familiar problems about love, sex and intimacy. A fun nostalgia trip that rates the heart as important as the other bodily parts; the original cast are as likable (or not) as ever. Nothing very revelatory but plenty of laughs.

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• 2012
• UK/France
• 15

• Directed by: Ken Loach
• Cast: Roger Allam, John Henshaw, Daniel Portman

New drama from top Brit director Loach about a young father with a criminal past who is determined to give his son a better life than he had.

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• 2012
• US
• 142 min
• 12A

• Directed by: Joss Whedon
• Written by: Zak Penn (screenplay), Joss Whedon (screenplay)
• Cast: Robert Downey Jr, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Samuel L Jackson

Big blockbuster superhero action as Iron Man, Thor, The Hulk, Captain America, Black Widow and Hawkeye team up to save the world.

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• 1991
• US
• 84 min
• U

• Directed by: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
• Cast: Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Richard White, Jerry Orbach, Angela Lansbury, David Ogden Stiers, Bradley Pierce, Jesse Corti, Rex Everhart

The first animated film ever to get an Oscar nomination for Best Picture, the 30th Walt Disney feature-length cartoon is a classic by anyone's standards. The familiar story is supplemented by terrific songs, a host of comic characters and a breathtaking combination of traditional and computer animation techniques.

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• 2011
• UK
• 118 min
• 12A

• Directed by: John Madden
• Written by: Ol Parker
• Cast: Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson

Despite an irresistible army of pension-age talent including Dench, Smith and Wilkinson, all on excellent form, this story about a group of unconnected British retirees who come to the titular hotel in Jaipur and find resolution for their various issues and challenges, feels too calculated to offer anything more than disposable entertainment at best, and cheaply manipulative emotional kicks at worst.

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• 2012
• US
• 113 min
• 12A

• Directed by: Tim Burton
• Written by: John August, Seth Grahame-Smith
• Cast: Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green, Jackie Earle Haley, Jonny Lee Miller, Chloë Grace Moretz, Bella Heathcote

18th century vampire Barnabas Collins (Depp) escapes from his coffin to find himself in Maine in 1972. It's fun, thanks to a smart script and plenty of surreal humour; Burton regulars Depp and Bonham-Carter are a hoot, but Moretz and Green could have used more restraint.

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• 2012
• US
• 15

• Directed by: Larry Charles
• Written by: Sacha Baron Cohen, Alec Berg
• Cast: Sacha Baron Cohen, Anna Faris, John C. Reilly

Admiral General Aladeen (Cohen) is the titular dictator: a sexist, racist, fascist pig with a penchant for execution, who during a trip to the UN is betrayed by his right-hand man (Kingsley). The jokes come thick, fast and obvious but despite moments of solid satire it feels a bit stale.

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• 2012
• US
• 142 min
• 12A

• Directed by: Gary Ross
• Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth

An adaptation of Suzanne Collins' dystopian thriller of a novel that successfully transcends its teen-fiction origins, with excellent cast and direction.

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• 2012
• UK
• 121 min
• 18

• Directed by: Ben Drew
• Written by: Ben Drew
• Cast: Riz Ahmed, Natalie Press, Mem Ferda

Six interweaved storylines about violence, prostitution and drugs, all set around London's Forest Gate. The directorial debut of Ben Drew (aka hip-hop artist Plan B) is raw, uncompromising and ambitious; Drew elicits great performances and takes trouble to understand his wayward characters. A kind of hoodie Magnolia.

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• 2012
• US
• 97 min
• 12A

• Directed by: Lisa Azuelos
• Cast: Miley Cyrus, Douglas Booth, Ashley Greene

High school romcom drama for the social media age starring Cyrus as a lovestruck teen whose mother makes the mistake of reading her racy secret journal.

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• 2012
• US
• 105 min
• PG

• Directed by: Barry Sonnenfeld
• Written by: David Koepp
• Cast: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin

In a Back to the Future-style escapade, Agent J (Smith) must go back in time and stop the young Agent K (Josh Brolin) being killed by an alien criminal and altering the shape of the Agency. Earth will, of course, need to be saved in the process.

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• 2012
• US
• 106 min
• PG

• Directed by: Tarsem Singh
• Cast: Lily Collins, Julia Roberts, Armie Hammer

Roberts stars as the narcissistic evil queen in this comic-fantasy twist on the Snow White story.

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• 2012
• UK
• 101 min
• 12A

• Directed by: Sacha Bennett
• Written by: Sacha Bennett, Nigel Smith
• Cast: Jenny Agutter, Bob Hoskins, Vincent Regan

Hoskins piles on the geezer as Percy 'Smudge' Smith, the head of a band of Fleet Street hacks who unwisely entrust their redundancy money to Bax (MacNab), who invests it on a racehorse. Dated misogynist comedy, bargain-basement sentimentality and glib moralising cause the film to fall at the first hurdle.

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• 2012
• US
• 15

• Directed by: Ridley Scott
• Written by: Jon Spaihts, Damon Lindelof
• Cast: Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Logan Marshall-Green, Charlize Theron

Sci-fi adventure in which a team of scientists investigating alien life forms becomes stranded and has to fight a battle in which the safety of mankind is at stake.

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• 2011
• Indonesia/USA
• 100 min
• 18

• Directed by: Gareth Evans
• Cast: Iko Uwais, Doni Alamsyah, Yayan Ruhain

An Indonesian SWAT team storms a Jakarta tower block intending to take down crime lord Tama (Sahetapy), but finds itself trapped. About as good a film as you can make about men repeatedly punching each other in the face; Evans' low-budget, high-impact approach has enormous gusto and ingenuity.

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• 2012
• US
• 125 min
• 12A

• Directed by: Anthony Hemingway
• Written by: John Ridley
• Cast: Cuba Gooding Jr., Gerald McRaney, David Oyelowo

In WW II Italy, a crew of African-American trainee airmen defy both Nazi pilots and institutional racism, under the leadership of Major Stance (Gooding) and Colonel Bullard (Howard). Lashings of expensively rendered CGI action can't make up for thin characterization, hoary clichés and crude simplifications.

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• 2011
• UK
• 111 min
• 12A

• Directed by: Lasse Halström
• Written by: Simon Beaufoy
• Cast: Ewan Mcgregor, Emily Blunt, Kristin Scott Thomas

A nerdish fisheries expert (McGregor) and a sophisticated legal aide (Blunt) are recruited by an angling-obsessed sheik (Waked) to realize the vision of the title. What worked on the page is an insubstantial muddle on film, thanks to an unfocused script and Hallström’s preference for broad emotions over subtlety and complexity.

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• 2012
• US
• 127 min
• 12A

• Directed by: Rupert Sanders
• Written by: Evan Daugherty, John Lee Hancock
• Cast: Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron

As in the traditional tale, the jealous Queen sends a huntsman to kill Snow White after discovering her to be the fairest in the land. But in this modern adaptation the Huntsman becomes Snow White's mentor, training her as a warrior to be able to challenge the reign of the evil Queen.

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• 2011
• Mexico/Argentina
• 90 min
• U

• Directed by: Alberto Mar
• Written by: Kevin Seccia, Timothy McKeon
• Cast: Jason Harris, Chris Edgerly, Ben Diskin, Melissa Disney, Bill Lobely

Mexican-made feature-length version of the adventures of Hanna-Barbera's feline trickster and his pals. In this latest adventure, a new police chief arrives and, unhappy with the way officer Dibble is failing to deal with Top Cat's scams, proves to be his greatest foe yet.

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• 2012
• US
• 109 min
• 12A

• Directed by: Kirk Jones
• Written by: Shauna Cross, Heather Hatch
• Cast: Cameron Diaz, Matthew Morrison, Dennis Quaid

Based on the New York Times best seller of the same name, this comedy focuses on five couples about to have children. Celebrity couple Jules and Evan, author Wendy and her husband Gary and potential adopters Holly and Alex are among the pairs whose lives intertwine on the road to parenthood.

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