A GOOD WOMAN
A beautiful, breezy adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan starring Helen Hunt as the gold-digging Mrs Erlynne. Terrific set design and wonderful performances from a stellar cast featuring Scarlett Johannson and Tom Wilkinson transforms this effort by director Mike Berker (To Kill A King) into a tasteful romp.

THE JACKET
Adrien Brody and Kiera Knightly star in a vivid time-travelling psychological thriller. Directed by John Maybury, this time-jumping spectacular about a man who can foresee his own death includes a hideous twist concerning a mental institution and a straitjacket (hence the title). Kelly Lynch, Kris Kristofferson and Daniel Craig co-star with music by Brian Eno.

THE LAST HORROR MOVIE
A small-budgeted British thriller focuses on a serial killer’s video diary which was, it seems, inadvertently recorded over a video rental. Very creepy and credible if a little smug around the edges.

THE BRIDESMAID
Based on a Ruth Rendell novel, director Claude Chabrol orchestrates a slowly-unfolding tale of adolescent yearning and romantic danger when a young man falls for his sister‚s seductive and mysterious bridesmaid.

PRIVATE
A family of Palestinians on the west bank are occupied by a group of tough youth Israeli soldiers. Both the family, lead by a proud father, and the troops are humanly drawn, making this a tense and believable drama.