Film

Inferior rival to Peter Mullan's The Magdalene Sisters

Afghans' odyssey puts the asylum-seeker problem into human context

DIRECTED BY Roger Donaldson STARRING Al Pacino, Colin Farrell, Bridget Moynahan Opens March 28, Cert 12A, 114 mins When Colin Farrell signs up as a trainee CIA operative in Roger Donaldson's slick spy caper, he has more to deal with than weapons instruction, role-play exercises and psychological evaluation. He also has to cope with shameless grandstanding from Al Pacino giving another of those shouty, screen-hogging, over-the-top performances that have now become his trademark.

Sci-fi tosh with Christian Bale

Raw, rigorous yet transcendent social realism

Dark secrets exposed in intense three-hander

Bret Easton Ellis' cult novel filmed by former Tarantino collaborator

Marvel strikes cinematic gold again with dark and exuberant superhero blockbuster No 3

Spacey favourite has plenty of low-key charm

Topical Kurdish-American tales of pain and friendship