Another foreign import founded on the belief that a good meal can solve anything. As it follows an uptight German chef (Martina Gedeck) who runs her kitchen with the rigid precision of a military canteen, the movie doesn’t quite have the joyous effervescence of Like Water for Chocolate or Babette’s Feast. The pleasure, then, comes

A perfectly respectable, perfectly unexceptional movie version of the Charles Dickens novel, this is one of those studious adaptations tailor-made for high school English classes. Charlie Hunnam is a blond bore as the lead, a young country man who must fend for his mother and sister in 19th-century London. Only supporting performances by the likes

This means to play off The Graduate, but any fondness you might have for that 1967 classic will only spoil the fun – not that there is much fun to be had. A misguided premise combined with a high ickiness factor – much of the comic drama comes from Jennifer Aniston’s character believing she may

When this dull adaptation of Natalie Babbitt’s children’s novel, about adolescent love and a fountain of youth, isn’t boring you to tears, it’s causing you to raise an eyebrow. As the two young lovers (Alexis Bledel and Jonathan Jackson, both of whom have the shiny, scrubbed faces of cherubs) frolic in waterfalls and dance under