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  • Out of Office

    Since playing David Brent's sycophantic sidekick in The Office, Mackenzie Crook has become a minor movie star, thanks largely to his role in Pirates of the Caribbean. So why is this critically acclaimed and commercially viable actor still nervous, asks Donald Clarke.

  • Screenwriter

    Cinema chatterboxes must die, writes Donald Clarke .

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  • Persepolis

    This animated biopic set in 1980s Iran succeeds on every level, writes Michael Dwyer .

  • Stop-Loss

    IN 1999 Kimberly Peirce made an arresting feature-film debut with the emotionally wrenching Boys Don't Cry , a factually based drama unflinchingly exploring the life and death of Teena Brandon, a young woman who felt more comfortable in a male identity, reversed her name to Brandon Teena, and was murdered in Nebraska.

  • THE EYE

    WHEN reviewing American remakes of Asian horror films it is customary to adopt the posture of an easily offended maiden aunt attending a Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition. "Oh, how could they!" you say, swooning theatrically.

  • FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL

    THE FIFTH Judd Apatow production released here since last August (after Knocked Up , Superbad , Walk Hard and Drillbit Taylor ), Nicholas Stoller's debut feature injects the romantic comedy formula with a welcome bitterness and healthy cynicism.

  • THREE AND OUT

    IN THE later stages of this deeply strange British film, Colm Meaney finds himself drinking lager while dancing to The Pogues at a grubby student party. It says something about the film's curious worldview that the scene is intended to show Meaney, hitherto suicidal, shaking off inhibitions and living life to the full. There must be more exotic ways of seizing the day than this.

  • Also opening

    Deception (16 cert, gen release, 108 min) opens today without any Irish press previews, despite featuring a cast headed by Ewan McGregor as an overworked corporate accountant and Hugh Jackman as the lawyer who introduces him to New York's underground sex clubs.

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  • New DVDs

    Michael Dwyer and Donald Clarke on the latest DVD releases.

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