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Is it possible to admire a body of work for its smartness, deadpan humour, irreverence, visual bravura, and yet feel thoroughly alienated and even dismayed by it at the same time?

A Serious Man (15)

Their heart isn't in it

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DVD: Terminator Salvation (12) (Rated 3/ 5 )

Friday, 20 November 2009

Though it may have no more than a few seconds of Arnie (and a digitally reconstructed version, no less), Salvation proves the Terminator franchise is still alive and just about kicking.

DVD: Supernatural: Season 4 (15) (Rated 4/ 5 )

Friday, 20 November 2009

The boys from the dark side are not only decking demons but, God forbid, kicking angel ass through season 4 of Supernatural.

DVD: Star Trek (12) (Rated 4/ 5 )

Friday, 20 November 2009

James T Kirk hotwires cars and gets into bar brawls; Spock loses his cool and tries to strangle Kirk to death.

DVD: The Sopranos: Season 1 (18) (Rated 5/ 5 )

Friday, 20 November 2009

HBO's finest achievement – The Wire was excellent, this was better – gets the Blu-ray treatment.

DVD: Ice Age 3 (Rated 4/ 5 )

Friday, 20 November 2009

Perhaps not quite as witty as the previous films, Ice Age 3 is great for post Sunday lunch viewing.

The First Day of the Rest of Your Life (15) (Rated 3/ 5 )

Friday, 20 November 2009

Remi Bézançon's intimate drama examines the fractures and foibles of an ordinary bourgeois French family over the last 12 years of the 20th century.

Glorious 39 (12A) (Rated 1/ 5 )

Friday, 20 November 2009

How does Stephen Poliakoff get away with this stuff? Glorious 39 begins, in mildly intriguing fashion, in the run-up to the Second World War, positing an appeasement conspiracy cooked up by a bunch of toffs who believe Britain hasn't a chance against Hitler.

The Sea Wall (NC) (Rated 2/ 5 )

Friday, 20 November 2009

Isabelle Huppert's brittle poise dominates this adaptation of Marguerite Duras's novel of colonialism in eclipse.

The Informant! (15)

Friday, 20 November 2009

Their heart isn't in it

Southern Softies (U) (Rated 3/ 5 )

Friday, 20 November 2009

Graham Fellows follows up his earlier spoof It's Nice Up North with another investigative outing for his alter ego John Shuttleworth, Sheffield's least fashionable singer-songwriter.

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