Hardly innovative, but effective and handsomely produced, Hansel & Gretel puts the "grim" in Grimm while placing South Korean director Yim Phil-sung on the shortlist of Pan's Labyrinth emulators to trust.

Full Review | Sep 1, 2009

It is a film that is just good enough to keep you hanging around to the end, at which point you leave the theatre feeling vaguely let down.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 27, 2009

Genuinely ghoulish and grim in the best Brothers Grimm tradition.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 16, 2009

The production design is terrific - the colour palette is as lurid as a plate of cupcakes. But the film loses its tension in a baggy final act that overexplains the secret of the house.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 16, 2009

Revenge by abandoned children on the treachery of grown-ups ought to be unsetting at the very least, if not spine-tingingly terrifying. But it's done so clumsily that nothing remotely spooky emerges.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 16, 2009