Sight & Sound. March 05.

Kevin Conroy Scott has been meeting and chatting with Wes Anderson off and on over the past few years; here, he places The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou within the context of Anderson's previous films.

Asuman Suner considers Fatih Akin's Head-On, "not an easy film to pin down. Audiences seem to find it deeply disturbing, perhaps because it draws on cultural tropes that co-exist in an eclectic and volatile disorder."

Reviews:

• Leslie Felperin on Kinsey: "For all the film's celebration of experiment and diversity - a biological certainty that Kinsey comes to understand through his study of the gall wasp - this is actually a very pro-couples, if not pro-monogamy, movie."

• Ben Walters on The Machinist: "Given the crucial question of how much of the mise en scène originates in Trevor's paranoid imagination, it's tempting to surmise that he's simply watched too many films."

• Roger Clarke on Tropical Malady, "a work of outstanding originality and power that comes nearer to the condition of the quest and the dream-state than any film in recent years."

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