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Carey Mulligan and Leonardo DiCaprio as Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

An initially sceptical John Byrne enjoys Baz Luhrmann's hypnotic homage to F Scott Fitzgerald's literary masterpiece.

  • The lives of a group of young students at sexual play and at anarchic protest

    Something In The Air

    Something In The Air masterfully evokes early Seventies France, as a group of young students become involved in violent political protest.

  • Ginger Baker and Eric Clapton
  • A Hijacking

    A Hijacking

    Right from the start you somehow sense the seedy, visual drama A Hijacking will be. The Danish film a is masterpiece of taut drama, utterly convincing in its explorations of human behaviour under stress.

  • Cumberbatch and Pine in Star Trek: Into Darkness

    Star Trek: Into Darkness

    It's good Jim but not as good as the first one and maybe, just maybe Abrams' script breaks the Prime Directive.

  • Great tunes worth cherishing

    Little Green Cars - Absolute Zero

    The Dublin quintet have produced a knockout debut album full of killer songs and at least one killer voice

  • Silence A Christian History

    Silence A Christian History by Diarmaid MacCulloch

    Historian Diarmaid MacCulloch will be known to many from his popular BBC series The History of Christianity. His new book looks at versions of keeping quiet, either for spiritual or other reasons, in Christianity

  • The ambition, interplay and atmospherics have been turned right up

    Enemies - Embark, Embrace

    The Louth band turn up the ambition and the energy on their great second album

  • Cat Dowling: Full of twists, swerves and quirks

    Cat Dowling - The Believer

    The debut album from former Alphastates front woman is beguiling and haunting

  • Mostly on target

    Iggy and The Stooges - Ready to Die

    Guns, money, the return of James Williamson, and even a bit of wisdom, Iggy and The Stooges come blasting back on a funny and insightful outing

  • . .the greatest solo album from Sonny Condell in a very long career . .

    Sonny Condell - Swallows and Farms

    Swallows and Farms is perhaps the greatest solo album by Sonny Condell, a magisterial record that celebrates and self-berates, that soars and climbs by a majestic stairway.

  • They Live By Night-meets-Western showdown in the snow

    Deadfall

    The Desperate Hour-and-a-Half.

  • All that's best about American cinema

    Mud

    You'll dig it.

  • Plays out in a kind of early-1970s Australian Upstairs Downstairs scenario

    The Eye of the Storm

    Cold, calculating widow Elizabeth (Charlotte Rampling) is about to die in leafy, posh early '70s Sydney. Her son and daughter fly in from London and Paris, as the details of her will are about to be revealed.

  • Deeply unsettling

    Our Children/À Perdre la Raison

    The happiness of a newly-married couple is seriously threatened by dependence on a wealthy benefactor. In its depiction of raw tragedy, the film is deeply unsettling.