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Amara Karan, star of All in Good Time - profile

Amara Karan, star of All in Good Time - profile

The actress is also set to star alongside Simon Pegg in A Fantastic Fear of Everything

17 Apr 2012

Born 29 March, 1984, London Background Oxford-educated Karan spent two years working as an investment banker before plucking up the courage to pursue her interest in acting. Her audition tape was enough to impress revered director Wes Anderson, who…

The Raid

The Raid

A short, tough, pumped-up flick for die-hard action fans

(4 stars)17 Apr 2012

(18) 101min ‘1 ruthless crime lord. 20 elite cops. 80 floors of chaos.’ The advertising sets exactly the right proficient tone; crunching the numbers as well as bones, The Raid features a small group of policemen taking on a vertically stacked army of…

Damsels in Distress

Damsels in Distress

Whit Stillman's return to filmmaking features wordy, droll dialogue but often inept direction

(3 stars)17 Apr 2012

(15) 99min Following a 14-year break from filmmaking, American writer-director Whit Stillman returns to the big screen with another highly idiosyncratic comedy, one that audiences are likely to find either delightfully urbane or else utterly…

Monsieur Lazhar

Monsieur Lazhar

A classroom drama with unexpected charm, quiet dignity and emotional integrity

(4 stars)17 Apr 2012

(12A) 94min Inspirational schoolteachers have been a cinematic staple from Goodbye Mr. Chips to Laurent Cantet’s Cannes prize-winner The Class. Monsieur Lazhar successfully avoids treacly sentimental as it charts how a teacher and a group of…

The Monk

The Monk

Vincent Cassel stars in Dominik Moll's visually impressive but otherwise inert thriller

(3 stars)17 Apr 2012

(15) 101min It’s been seven years since Dominik Moll’s last film, but the talented filmmaker who made the blackly comic thrillers Harry, He’s Here to Help and Lemming, is back with his most ambitious film yet. Sadly, Moll’s adaptation of Matthew…

The Lucky One

The Lucky One

Unconvincing, one-dimensional drama starring Zac Efron and Taylor Schilling

(2 stars)17 Apr 2012

(12A) 101mins The latest adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks novel is as schmaltzy as ever but also hopelessly contrived and unconvincing. Stretching credibility from the start, Zac Efron stars as a US Marine who comes across a photo of an unknown blonde…

Silent House

Silent House

A ponderously slow psychological drama packaged as a horror film

(2 stars)17 Apr 2012

(18) 85min With Martha Marcy May Marlene, Elizabeth Olsen proved herself to be a young actress with great potential by persuasively playing a refugee haunted by her experiences with a murderous cult. Silent House features her in a disappointingly…

Being Elmo

Being Elmo

A revealing and heartfelt insight into the work of Kevin Clash, the man behind the puppet

(3 stars)17 Apr 2012

(tbc) 80min The recent Muppet movie and attendant hype has reaffirmed the peculiar genius of Jim Henson’s life’s work: that is to say, even when we can literally see the wires, even when we know we’re looking at manipulated felt and hearing actors…

All in Good Time

All in Good Time

Sweet-natured culture clash comedy starring Amara Karan and Meera Syal

(3 stars)17 Apr 2012

(12A) 93min Originally a 1965 play and subsequently a film by Irish writer Bill Naughton, this sweet-natured comedy became a theatre hit again in 2007 when East is East writer Ayub Khan-Din adapted it into a present-day British-Asian setting. The…

Goodbye First Love

Goodbye First Love

Intimate but unenlightening romance populated with unlikeable characters

(2 stars)17 Apr 2012

(15) 110mins It’s supposed to be unbearably boring hearing about other people’s dreams. But often that’s not nearly as bad as hearing about other people’s formative love affairs. Watching vain, drippy, lugubrious teenager Camille (Lola Créton) fall…

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