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

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

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