Chopper director Andrew Dominik's crime potboiler boast some impressive turns from Brad Pitt, James Gandolfini and Ray Liotta and is definitely worth a once through, is slightly messy and a little forgettable.

For me the Wachowskis' adaptation of David Mitchell's tome on standing up to authority and the little ripple effects of inspiration throughout time, is arguably the most underappreciated film this century so far. Riven with faults but aiming for the heavens and filled with stunning film-making, even on a philosophical level. The cast play multiple character in different eras as one small act of defiance reverberates forever. A masterpiece, warts and all and one of my very few 9.5/10 for any new release film.

Writer-director, Martin McDonagh's middle film between the sublime, In Bruges, and slightly overrated, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, is the least good out of the three but he's never going to be less than interesting. Stellar cast but a little messier this time around.

I had not been impressed by director Kathyrn Bigelow as a director by the time she inexplicably won best picture, director and screenplay for essentially Point Break in Iraq, The Hurt Locker, an even worse winner than Argo. The excellent, taught and expertly paced hunt for Osama movie, Zero Dark Thirty was everything that film wasn't.

Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy are a superb film - I know what I said. I must've had a spell on me to rate this so dwarf-singing snooze-fest so highly, the films haven't improved with age.