Pallid doesn't do it. This is offensively bad in every department and should be left to rot in a vault somewhere.

There are flaws aplenty, but also some effective, old-fashioned Western style performances and a spectacularly over the top finish.

Typically paper thin, the plot and the morality are blown away by the charms of the leading man and a soundtrack that has been hand-picked to get an audience on side. Unadulterated silliness, but harmless fun.

Citizens On Patrol might well have been subtitled When The Rot Set In.

This uneven but well-researched film takes a much more sober and realistic view than the Rambo-esque capers, of the hardships endured by shot-down Americans in conditions that were anything but Hilton-like.

Likeable Robert Townsend — who also co-wrote and directed — is a delight in this patchy but consistently enjoyable chronicle of a young black actor’s efforts to crack Hollywood.

Humerous, but doesn't gel as well as Levinson's previous efforts.

Hilarious, madcap comedy from the Coen brothers that demonstrates just why they are the kings of quirk.

The gaudily gory, virtuoso, hyper-kinetic horror sequel/remake uses every trick in the cinematic book, and confirms that Bruce Campbell and Raimi are gods.

The pace never slows, the jokes never miss and the stunts never disappoint in this macho-dream of an actioner.

A diabolical treat with Rourke and De Niro in fine form.

Arguably the most imaginative of the horror franchise, with a fair number of truly resonant scenes.

A pallid shopfloor fairytale with absolutely no magic to speak of, other than the spark in Kim Cattrall's eyes.

The two stars are very good, doubtless enjoying their high fashion outfits, and the script has one clever plot reversal in the third act, but it really could have done with a few more thrills (the motives for the killings lead to necessarily slow plot development), either in the murder or the sexual perversity departments.

Humane and perceptive memoir from Allen, with a pleasant visual nostalgia and the usual slew of impressive performances.

Leslie Dixon’s script is effective, though sometimes seems stranded between the domestic humour and the big issues being played out. Still, engaging, undemanding stuff.

Slightly weird, occasionally funny thriller.

Some of the slower tunes tend to grind but the sort of musical/ retro irony is still amusing in places. Not if you don't like dentists though.

A touch too heavy on the Faust scenario, this is nevertheless a typically powerful effort from Stone especially strong on the nightmarish aspects of the war, as when a simple misundertsanding instantly becomes a massacre...Gripping stuff

Toying with themes too serious for it and stars too big for it, this fantasy is incalculably less than the sum of it's parts.

An unusually thoughtful look (and a broad one) at powers on the wane, at America's shift from Vietnam polarisations to 80's apathy, and at one man teetering on the brink of a lonely old age.

Alex Cox’s retelling of the Sex Pistols’ story from the point of view of Sid (Gary Oldman) and girlfriend Nancy Spungen (Chloe Webb) works as both spirited punk biopic and tragically touching love story. It’s a hard film to watch at times, as Vicious plunges deeper into his heroin-induced slump, but told with skill and compassion, which make up for the onscreen squalor.

More style than substance... but such sexy, sexy style...

As involving and intellectually rich as all Tarkovsky's work.

Passionate performances from De Niro and Jeremy Irons in this stark but thematically complex historical drama.

Howell makes the least convincing black guy ever, his eventual contrition feels hollow and forced — much like the laughs.

It wouldn’t be like Martin Scorsese to pick up the tabs on a simple sequel, and this glossy, hard-spoken pool drama, a follow-on from The Hustler, never aligns to the simple organising principle of repeat value.

Unpretentious, warm, at times hilarious, it's hard to find a bad word to say about Crocodile Dundee.