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FIVE BEST FILMS
The Wrestler, 15
Mickey Rourke, sporting an Eighties peroxide hairdo, skin the colour of chicken tikka and a hearing aid, gives a career-best performance as an ageing and battered American pro-wrestler whose glory years are long behind him in this sad, touching and truthful film. Nationwide
Notorious, U
Ingenious, perverse and deftly handled thriller, with Cary Grant recruiting Ingrid Bergman to seduce the leader of a German spy ring in Rio but then falling in love with her himself.
Limited release
Slumdog Millionaire, 15
An antic, and romantic, fable about the joys and nightmares of childhood, about a boy’s search for love, and about a teeming, terrifying city on the rise. Dev Patel stars as Jamal, the 18-year-old recounting his life as a “slumdog” on the streets of Mumbai. Nationwide
Changeling, 15
Clint Eastwood’s consistently engaging, solid drama, based on a real-life case, that mixes “woman-in-peril” melodrama, police procedural and crusading exposé of corruption. Angelina Jolie stars as a single mother whose son disappears from her house in March 1928, while she was at work. Nationwide
Waltz with Bashir, 18
Ari Folman’s beautiful and horrifying animated autobiographical account of the first Lebanon War of 1982. It’s a powerfully ambiguous meditation on personal and collective avoidance, reconstructing those terrifying days when he was a 19-year-old Israeli conscript. Nationwide