A morally ambivalent tale of two policemen involved in various battles; for the top job, to put an end to a violent gang, to protect their snitches and, we are led to believe, in the past over a woman. Both policemen bend the laws beyond the limits of decency to achieve their ends in this dark and gun-slinging thriller set against the backdrop of a neon-lit Paris underworld. find out more...

A menacing, darkly comic thriller which twists and turns with the best of them. In small-town Tropico, USA, Nick (Alessandro Nivola) is in deep trouble. His job's a dead end, the inheritance he was counting on hasn't materialised, and the robbery he's taken part in has gone horribly wrong, leaving him seriously in debt to the heaviest guy in town. In fact, the only good thing in his life is his girlfriend Lissa (Reese Witherspoon), and so the pair embark on a crazy, guaranteed-to-go-wrong get-ri find out more...

A superb modern thriller in the ultra-hardboiled Jim Thompson mould, in which a trio of criminals, wanted for a brutally murderous drugs heist, converge on a small, quiet Arkansas township where the local cop, treated with contempt by the LA officers in charge of the case, looks forward to a High Noon-style showdown. The asides on racial and sexual inequality are made subtly and succinctly; the performances and pacing are nigh perfect; the violence is explicit, disturbing but never gratuitous; a find out more...