Why remake a decade?

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 24, 2011

...an absorbing crime thriller.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 15, 2009

The setting is a Paris packed with tight leather jackets, big hair and foxy girls, and the action, sex and family drama make for an enjoyable ride. Unfortunately, the denouement is frustratingly abrupt.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 5, 2008

This frisky if long-winded and derivative French policier never gets off the starting-blocks despite some charismatic performances and intriguingly executed set-pieces.

| Original Score: 2/6 | Dec 5, 2008

Although it draws on a real-life memoir, this Gallic crime drama never really gets going. There's potential in the tension between a wavering ex-con and his cop sibling, but the actors seem to have been cast the wrong way round.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 5, 2008

This being the gritty 1970s, the subtitled dialogue is as hard as nails. The Cain and Abel rivalry unfolds like a dismal episode of Minder.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 5, 2008

The result is an enjoyably rich, gamey stew of crime and family betrayal - and there's an interesting mention of 70s French super-crim Jacques Mesrine, the subject of a new biopic starring Vincent Cassel.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 5, 2008

Jacques Maillot's enjoyably retro crime drama, which fits itself out with enough period bangers and bad moustaches for an entire Jean-Pierre Melville retrospective.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 5, 2008

Hopefully, with this polished policier Maillot will get the small screen funding to expand this story and tie up some of the intriguing loose ends.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 5, 2008

It is not so much a wig, more a man-eating bird's nest. And not just an actor becomes lost beneath it but an entire film.

| Dec 5, 2008

Featuring possibly the quickest bank heist ever committed to screen, Rivals bumps along agreeably, if not scintillatingly, though Canet and Cluzet are a good match as the frres maudits.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 5, 2008

Atmospheric, noirish French cop thriller with strong performances from its two leads, though it's slightly let down by a disappointing climax.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 5, 2008

Gritty and tough, this period thriller about brothers on opposite sides of the law has remarkably complex characters and a vivid sense of style. Despite a choppy approach, it really grapples with some strong moral dilemmas.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 5, 2008