Bernhard Schlink's novel, The Reader, is both artistically and morally fraudulent. The oscar-winning film that sprung from it is no better

Standpoint's Writer-At-Large visits the slums of Mumbai to assess the Oscar-winning film

A new documentary made in Afghanistan has won two awards at the the Sundance Film Festival. Afghan Star could help the cause of feminism there and encourage a desperately-needed sense of national community

Eastwood's Gran Torino ticks all the boxes of a stereotypical immigration-is-good film

Philip French, who has died aged 82, was the doyen of British film criticism. In 2009, in the run-up to the Oscars, he discusses the demise of cinema as an art form with Standpoint's critic Peter Whittle and editor Daniel Johnson

Valkyrie is a triumph for Tom Cruise, but The Reader disappoints

As Hollywood prepares for the annual Oscar bash, the signs are it isn't going to be a vintage year

A new film about Che Guevara stirs memories of a grim and bloody episode in his career

The officers who tried to kill Hitler were spurred on by a deep sense of shame and guilt

The faultlines in the plot of Blindness, a new movie adaptation of a classic novel, make it somewhat absurd