Film

Persona

Rerun of Swedish master's harrowing '60s classic

The Life Of David Gale

Smart race-against-Death-Row drama

TV Sinners

Schrader returns with lusty temptations of small-screen chancer

Personal Velocity

Three vignettes from the Miller dynasty's diamond

Evelyn

Inferior rival to Peter Mullan's The Magdalene Sisters

In This World

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

The Recruit

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.

Equilibrium

Sci-fi tosh with Christian Bale

Le Fils (The Son)

Raw, rigorous yet transcendent social realism

The Magdalene Sisters

DIRECTED BY Peter Mullan STARRING Nora-Jane Noone, Dorothy Duffy, Anne-Marie Duff Opens February 21, Cert 15, 119 mins The opening scene of Peter Mullan's award-winning social drama The Magdalene Sisters unfolds in a Dublin pub in 1964, where Guinness-stained granddads in cloth caps slap their thighs to fiddle-dee-diddle-dee music played by a lecherous priest who salivates suggestively over his bodhran while crucifixes are reflected in whisky glasses and a lusty Irish buck rapes his own cousin.
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