DVD: Mr Nice (18)

When choosing where to file Bernard Rose's diverting take on the life of Howard Marks in your DVD collection, put it perhaps in the non-fiction section, but at the end closest to comedy.

Charting the drug dealer's rise from Welsh grammar schoolboy to global criminal mastermind, and fall into the US prison system, Rhys Ifans's charming interpretation of Marks makes it hard to dislike the title character, despite his manifest shortcomings and questionable morality. The script is zippy and funny, and there are few bad performances, though at points the final third plays out like a slightly dreary Welsh adaptation of Catch Me If You Can.