Spurious but amusing documentary about Britpop

Scousepunk reworking of classic revenge tale

Soderbergh does sci-fi; Clooney does soul-searching

Quirky, trippy rom-com from Magnolia/Boogie Nights director

Superbly acted drama gathers no moss

Almost Famous meets Thelma & Louise

Re-release of 1971 Visconti classic

Slow-burning but majestic Mexican drama

Seymour Hoffman tour de force as grieving loner

Director Peter Watkins' mid-1960s work for the BBC still shines. Culloden recreated the famous battle as if covered by a modern news team—a radical approach for the time. More controversially, The War Game showed that nuclear war was an unwinnable nightmare, and was consequently banned by the Beeb, though it picked up an Oscar when released theatrically in 1966.