FIVE BEST Films

Couscous

(15, Abdellatif Kechiche, 154mins)

A thoroughly engrossing masterclass in film naturalism, set around the dinner tables of an ordinary but completely fascinating extended French-Arabic family.

Limited release

The Edge of Love

(15, John Maybury, 110mins)

A flawed but honourable film dramatising the triangular relationship between the poet Dylan Thomas and two women: his wife, Caitlan, and an old teenage lover.

Nationwide

The Escapist

(15, Rupert Wyatt, 101mins)

Brian Cox is powerful as the old lag leading a prison escape in a British genre film that is, for once, both stylish and substantial.

Nationwide

Gone Baby Gone

(15, Ben Affleck, 113MINS)

Ben Affleck's directorial debut is an impressive, naturalistic crime drama about the search for a missing four-year-old girl, adapted from a novel by Dennis Lehane.

Nationwide

Her Name Is Sabine

(12, Sandrine Bonnaire, 89mins)

The French actor Sandrine Bonnaire's documentary portrait of her autistic younger sister, Sabine, is painfully intimate, humane and heartbreaking.

Limited release

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