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Meet Dave
Xan Brooks: Avoid Dave. One, because he's really an alien mothership. And two, because he's played by Eddie Murphy -
Donkey Punch
Xan Brooks: Donkey Punch is expertly made and painfully tense; a bracing cold snap blowing in off the ocean -
City of Men
Xan Brooks: Where Meirelles's film lifted the lid of Brazil's teeming gangland subculture, Morelli's simply tours the same old neighbourhood -
Ikiru
Xan Brooks: Kurosawa's direction is imperishable - as fresh and as fluid as it ever was
Editors' picks
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Peter Bradshaw: Errol Morris' documentary takes on the full bone-chilling barbarity of Abu Ghraib
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Xan Brooks: Pixar's cartoon about robot love on a dying Earth is bold but bleak
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Xan Brooks: This pleasant Chekhovian miniature is a welcome return for Olivier Assayas
