This lively comedy feels like about half a movie, as the inventive Borat-like hilarity runs out of steam after about an hour

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 10, 2008

Bigga Than Ben is small-scale, episodic and not without its sins of omission. But it looks as if it speaks the truth and is considerably more entertaining and thought-provoking than most of the week's other offerings.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 10, 2008

It tails off into a confusing ending, but Bigga Than Ben is still honest, funny and provocative enough to wind up Daily Mail and Guardian readers alike.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 10, 2008

Where she's less sure is the disintegration of the friendship between Spiker and Cobakka. It's less than convincing and strangely unaffecting because - to be brutally honest - they're both a pair of neo-Nazi gits.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 10, 2008

Still, it's an enterprising little movie in its location shooting, and I warmed to it - an overeagerness to entertain is hardly the worst crime.

| Oct 10, 2008

Relentlessly crass, smug, charmless and unedifying.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 10, 2008

It's a depressing, grubby-looking little film with an undercurrent of particularly mean-spirited misogyny. You wonder what Suzie Halewood, the director, was thinking.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 10, 2008

What purports to be a rough guide, slyly but skilfully reveals itself to be a bit of a rough diamond.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 10, 2008

The performances are spiky, the use of varied locations is fresh and the dialogue - 'How could I ever imagine that I, a Moscow hooligan and Nazi would become a negro lover?' - is warmingly non-exemplary.

| Original Score: 4/6 | Oct 10, 2008

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 9, 2008