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Mark Kermode BBC Radio Five Live Feb 23, 2007 It's not funny; there were three laughs I counted over the entire course of the movie. Go to Full Review School for Scoundrels (2006) 26% 52%

Mark Kermode BBC Radio Five Live Feb 23, 2007 It's well built but the Matt Damon character remains blank and too young to be convincing. It's solid, but like Damon himself it's a bit dull. Go to Full Review The Good Shepherd (2006) 56% 51%

Mark Kermode BBC Radio Five Live Feb 23, 2007 A dopey numerical thriller that wants to be Se7en times three. Go to Full Review The Number 23 (2007) 7% 56%

Mark Kermode BBC Radio Five Live Feb 23, 2007 Does have a genuine emotional core and makes Flags of our Fathers look like a better film. But whether or not it's a great film; the jury is still out. Go to Full Review Letters From Iwo Jima (2006) 91% 86%

Mark Kermode BBC Radio Five Live Jan 29, 2007 A perfectly-fine stripped-down little horror movie and if you're not a hardcore horror fan you'll probably find some of it surprising. Go to Full Review Them (2006) 63% 60%

Mark Kermode BBC Radio Five Live Jan 29, 2007 Roger Michel knows how to do People-in-Rooms better than most directors do, but the joys of it really are the performances and it's worth seeing for O'Toole and Phillips together. Go to Full Review Venus (2006) 87% 74%

Mark Kermode BBC Radio Five Live Jan 29, 2007 Quite apart from the fact that it's spectacularly uninventive and uncontroversial, it's just such a luvvie-fest. Go to Full Review Bobby (2006) 47% 72%

Mark Kermode BBC Radio Five Live Jan 29, 2007 Bonkers, adventurous, silly, ambitious, charming, foolish; it's all those things and it'll be gone in a week. But it's not mainstream Bore-o fare, and for that it should be celebrated. Go to Full Review The Fountain (2006) 53% 74%

Mark Kermode BBC Radio Five Live Jan 29, 2007 Issue-tainment. Puts the issue of conflict diamonds in the public eye. Whether or not that makes it a great drama is a slightly different question. Go to Full Review Blood Diamond (2006) 63% 90%