David O Russell's Oscar-winning comedy stands out from the Hollywood crowd by having a polished and punchy screenplay, rather than acres of self-indulgent improv, and a hero (Bradley Cooper) who has genuine mental-health issues, rather than simply being an arrested adolescent.

If, as Nigel Lawson said, the NHS is the closest thing the English have to a religion, then fly-on-the- wall documentaries about the NHS are the closest thing television commissioners have to Christmas Eve Midnight Mass. They are guaranteed crowd-pullers. As a result, one is rarely more than four hours away from the swabs, beeps and tears of a hosp-doc.

Dir: Brandon Cronenberg, 108 mins, 15

Ultimately, players are more important than a manager's media profile or his comfort with the metrics of the modern game. Harry Redknapp's current set at Queens Park Rangers are inherently inferior to the familiar figures whose allegiance is to Andre Villas-Boas and Tottenham Hotspur.

It triumphed because it wasn't about old people or even elderly romance, but love, says Simon Usborne

When Harry Met Sally with nappies, Friends With Kids stars its writer-director, Jennifer Westfeldt (Kissing Jessica Stein), as a thirtysomething Manhattanite who decides to have a baby with her platonic pal, Adam Scott.

A scientific survey has claimed that different genders can't be friends with each other, but real-life proves this wrong.

The Five-Year Engagement (15) Nicholas Stoller, DVD/Blu-ray (124mins) ****

Beasts of the Southern Wild, a deliciously dreamy tale about a fictional Bayou community in the backwaters of Louisiana, does not so much jump off the screen as float effortlessly off it.

Paul Torday’s satirical novel is more affecting and less upbeat, but Simon Beaufoy’s adaptation is single-handedly redeemed by an endearing Emily Blunt as Harriet, a well-heeled consultant who persuades Ewan McGregor’s uptight scientist in a sheikh’s loopy scheme to introduce salmon into the desert of Yemen.

A new generation of film-makers is turning the rom-com on its head with barbed and believable tales that often, at last, centre on the woman’s perspective, says Nick Hasted

From Magnum contact sheets to portraits by Mario Testino, there’s something here for everyone to feast their eyes on...

What on earth's happened to Reese Witherspoon and the actress that shone in Alexander Payne's Election?

Mon Dieu, what a fall from grace is here.