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Jingoism and war-worship must be overcome

JOE GLENTON explains his need to respond to a world that is unsustainably divided

La Boheme

ENO's production of La Boheme is a triumph,

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Pavee Lackeen (15)

Friday 17 February 2006

THIS film comes garlanded with awards and good intentions, but it is more puzzling than enlightening.

Aeon Flux (15)

Friday 17 February 2006

CHARLIZE (Monster) Theron stars as Flux, a rebel in a B-movie version of the animated TV sci-fi drama about a conspiracy theory in which she's supposed to assassinate the leader of the opposition, only to realise that she fancies the man. What is a good girl to do?

Songs of Songs (TBC)

Friday 10 February 2006

SIMILAR in mood to Ian McEwan's The Cement Garden, Josh Appignanesi's debut feature film has reappropriated the theme of alienation and transplanted it to north London's Orthodox Jewish community.

Chicken Little (U)

Friday 10 February 2006

RECALLING Disney's Lilo and Stitch, Chicken Little is one of those raucous children's movies with a lot of fun and shouting.

Big Momma's House 2 (PG)

Friday 10 February 2006

EARLY in this unendurable alleged comedy, when someone asks: "What's that about?" they're told: "Nothing - go back to sleep."

Lady Vengeance (18)

Friday 10 February 2006

FROM the director of Sympathy for Mr Vengeance and Old Boy, this third in a trilogy returns to the theme of a grudge with a vengeance, horrifying the audience with the practised hand of an aesthetic sadist.

The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby (PG)

Friday 10 February 2006

GREYFRIARS Bobby was a terrier who kept a vigil over the grave of his master, a policeman who had died of tuberculosis, in Greyfriars churchyard in Edinburgh between 1858 and his own death in 1872.

Proof (12A)

Friday 10 February 2006

GORDON THOMAS ponders over a thoughtful puzzle posed by an intriguing set of notebooks created by a mad mathematician.

North Country (15)

Friday 03 February 2006

JEFF SAWTELL welcomes a cliched but worthy soap-style courtroom drama about one woman's fight against misogyny.

Walk the Line (12A)

Friday 03 February 2006

FOR all its protestations about "art," in Hollywood, it's money, not talent, that talks the loudest.