Mr Moore is at it again, trashing the core values of ‘The Land of the Brave and the Free', this time it's the ripoff American health service, a system which despite its huge cost is one of the least effective in the ‘developed' world. Moore compares it with the health services of Canada, Britain, France and Cuba as examples of how a system should be run, but, and this is always the flaw in Moore's documentaries, you never get a truly rounded argument. However the man's mission is to address the find out more...

A film dominated by one performance, Forest Whitaker's turn as the infamous dictator Idi Amin. When young Scotsman Nicholas Garrigan becomes his personal physician few of us doubt that it will inevitably end in tears, but Amin, as is so often the way with monsters, has considerable charm to go with his paranoid genocidal tendencies and the naïve Garrigan is seduced. However Garrigan's role is ambiguous; is he just dumb or is he willingly looking the other way? The film also reverses the typical find out more...

A highly intelligent and thoughtful dramatisation of Francois Mitterrand's last years, not merely as a politician but as an old man bedeviled by illness and haunted by promises broken or unfulfilled. An idealistic young journalist hired as his diarist attempts to coax truths from the great leader, but finds that as the inevitability of death approaches his subject is less concerned with his own achievements and more with his own mortality. Witty, touching, understated and utterly compelling, 'Th find out more...