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    Cast: Arifin Putra, Julie Estelle, Alex Abbad, Tio Pakusadewo, Oka Antara, and Cecep A Rahman Director: Gareth Evans Julie Estelle and Iko Uwais in The Raid 2: Berandal: sadism and sentiment galore. Photograph: Allstar   The writer-director Gareth Evans was raised in Wales, moved to Indonesia in his 20s and rustled up a left-field hit with 2011's The Raid , in which a rookie cop knocked seven bells out of the gangsters infesting a nightmarish block of flats. Now along comes the sequel, which only goes to show that nothing succeeds like excess. The Raid 2: Berandal ups the ante to give us riots in the prison and battles in the bar; a girl wielding hammers and a boy brandishing a bat. It puts its characters to the sword, to the shotgun, and to the speeding automobile. If Evans never actually goes so far as to throw in the kitchen sink as well, he does at least find room for an extended sequence in which a man's face is sauteed on a...

Fearful symmetry: Suraj Sharma as Pi, lost at sea with a Bengal tiger: ‘The movie does for water and the sea what Lawrence of Arabia did for sand and desert.’ The Taiwan-born Ang Lee rapidly established himself in the 1990s as one of the world's most versatile film-makers, moving on from the trilogy of movies about Chinese families that made his name to Jane Austen's England ( Sense and Sensibility ) and Richard Nixon's America ( The Ice Storm ). If he revisits a place or genre it's to tell a very different story – a martial arts movie in medieval China ( Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ) is followed by a spy thriller in wartime Shanghai ( Lust, Caution ), and a western with a US civil war background ( Ride With the Devil ) is succeeded by a western about a gay relationship in present-day Wyoming ( Brokeback Mountain ). Life of Pi Production year: 2012 Country: USA Cert (UK): PG Runtime: 127 mins...

  From the first sentence, the first word, the first nervily in-drawn breath, this compulsively watchable picture announces itself as the unmistakable work of Aaron Sorkin. His whip-smart, mile-a-minute dialogue made The West Wing deeply addictive on TV, and after uncertain works such as Charlie Wilson's War and the strange, small-screen drama Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip – in which Sorkin's distinctive, faintly martyred seriousness was bafflingly applied to the backstage shenanigans of a fictional television comedy – this writer is triumphantly back on form. He's found an almost perfect subject: the creation of the networking website Facebook, and the backstabbing legal row among the various nerds, geeks, brainiacs and maniacs about who gets the credit and the cash. The Social Network Production year: 2010 Country: USA Cert (UK): 12A Runtime: 120 mins Directors: David Fincher Cast: Andrew Garfield, Arm...