Barnaby Turner

WHAT I LIKED: Steven Soderburgh's 'The Good German,' is an exercise in replicating the stylishness of 1940s detective cinema, and as far as that's concerned it does a pretty remarkable job, even if it doesn't attempt to get close to the serious te... Read the full review »

WHAT I DIDN'T LIKE: 'Zero Dark Thirty,' is a film with a single-track mind, and what it focuses on it does very well indeed. It follows the CIA during the second Iraq war on their hunt for Bin Laden, and showcases the web of complex terror network... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: I normally start these reviews by saying what I liked about the film in question, but frankly there's nothing at all to like about Scary Movie 2, so let's instead get into what's not to like, because there's a whole lot of that... W... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: 'A Most Wanted Man,' is perhaps the best John Le Carré adaptation ever to find its way to the big screen, as what director Anton Corbijn and writer Andrew Bovell do here is bring the central themes forward perfectly - not by strippi... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: First and foremost, Steven Spielberg and Steven Zaillian's 'Schindler's List' is - for my money - the most successful portrayal of the Holocaust ever put to film, but the way it brings the nuances and reality of the horrors home with... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: With a narrative that involves Keanu Reeves' family dying suddenly and him secretly cloning them all in a matter of weeks, Jeffrey Nachmanoff and Chad St. John's 'Replicas,' does have a very interesting thematic concept at the centre... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: It's hard to argue that there aren't at least some funny moments in 'Johnny English Strikes Again,' as Rowan Atkinson always manages to pull off a few very amusing sketches no matter what he's surrounded by. WHAT I DIDN'T LIKE: The... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: To anyone not really paying attention, William McGregor's 'Gwen,' would simply seem to be a horror-inflected story of a teenager's peasant family in North Wales being ravaged by a series of mysterious tragedies. But this is a film wi... Read the full review »