Film

Re-release of 1971 Visconti classic

Disappointing biopic of legendary Mexican painter

Slow-burning but majestic Mexican drama

Nolte kicks smack in Monte Carlo

Seymour Hoffman tour de force as grieving loner

Analytical US-style remake of slow-burning Japanese chiller

Frothy Spielberg caper wastes classy cast

Jackie Chan does James Bond

Polanski's heartfelt hymn to Polish suffering in WWII Warsaw

DIRECTED BY David Cronenberg STARRING Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne, Lynn Redgrave Opens January 3, Cert 15, 99 mins Over the years, with films like Rabid, Videodrome, Crash and eXistenZ, we've come to expect eerie, special-effects-laden, futuristic horror fare from David Cronenberg. His latest is a sinister but understated study of a schizophrenic (Ralph Fiennes) known only by his childhood nickname of Spider. The film opens in the 1980s with Spider checking into a grim halfway house in a run-down area of east London after 20 years in psychiatric care.