Michael Dwyerand Donald Clarkereview this week's new releases.
BE KIND REWIND
***
Directed by Michel Gondry. Starring Jack Black, Mos Def, Danny Glover, Mia Farrow 12 cert
Black and Mos Def play employees at a video store who, following an unlikely disaster that wipes all their stock, decide to remake the movies themselves. Both hip and heart- warming, Gondry's flick manages to avoid being too clever. The making-of featurette is as weird as you'd expect.
DONALD CLARKE
THE WATER HORSE: LEGEND OF THE DEEP
***
Directed by Jay Russell. Starring Emily Watson, Alex Etel, Ben Chaplin, Brian Cox PG cert
This is what I call a proper family film.
The Water Horse, in which a bonnie lad happens upon the young Loch Ness Monster during the second World War, owes a lot to
ETand is a little too cosy at times. But it abounds with such briny good will that few sensible children will prove resistant to its charms.
DONALD CLARKE
THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL
**
Directed by Justin Chadwick. Starring Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jim Sturgess 15 cert
History is reduced to soap opera in yet another movie on the sexual exploits of Henry VIII (Bana, miscast) as he becomes involved with Anne (Portman) and Mary Boleyn (Johansson).
MICHEL DWYER
UNTRACEABLE
*
Directed by Gregory Hoblit. Starring Diane Lane 18 cert
An FBI agent (Lane) hunts a serial killer who devises brutal torture for his victims and attracts a huge online audience to observe their deaths. As his camera records their abuse, the movie's veneer of moral outrage is exposed as hypocritical and exploitative.
MICHEL DWYER
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