Remains an astonishing tour-de-force.....

Technically dazzling - a realist approach (of sorts), but with bouts of visual poetry in the ring. The camera dazzle is wheeled out to accompany the most brutal physical poundings. The ugliness is filmed with such beauty. Flash bulbs aplenty. The sound design too - layered drums and elephant sounds take you outside of normal experience.

This is a depressing depiction of toxic masculinity - long before this term became familiar. LaMotta just refuses to change…

Utter perfection.

Fantastic to see this on a big screen with a full audience. Not only is the sheer genius (and this is the only word that will do in this instance) of the design even more evident: just how audacious is it to build the framing, shot selection and editing into the construction of the set……

But with an audience you also notice just how funny this really is - as well as clever and exciting - the darkly…

I love this movie.

I know its value is in its satire, but the last fifteen minutes is crazily exciting....Will the real armageddon be such an edge of the seat experience?

The best testament that Sellers was a genius too. You forget that that the characters are the same actor. Brilliance, of the highest order.

The battle scenes filmed in news footage style...so far ahead of its time....and Hayden photographed so close from below: you can almost see his non-fluorised…

A small temporal anomaly corrected - for reasons I can't really , I never saw this on the big screen first time round. Happy to have fixed that 38 years later...

This is a perfect movie. It's clever, exciting, funny - oh so funny. Lloyd's delivery of the 'Heavy' gag is a moment of genius. A great joke that is certainly enhanced by an audience unable to control its laughter!

The set-up is so efficient. An equatorial triangle of a…

Epic and sublime. Amongst the greatest films ever. Such artistic ambition - and entirely successful. Both a prequel and a sequel - but enriches the original too.

Destruction follows creation. A crime family born through a search for community justice. Violence used as a weapon to protect immigrant families from corruption and exploitation. And within one generation the Corleone family wrecked by the very concentration of power it acted against. Any sense of honour amongst thieves is rejected entirely. Michael's…

A perfect alignment of old testament misanthropy with metropolitan malaise. Despair delivered in a box. All involved scorn humanity. This film may despise us all, but it remains a powerful work of art.

The beauty of the script: it controls and plays with genre so skilfully. The antagonist reveals before we are ready. Not many films throw you off balance as this does at the end of the second act. Audacious.

Only John Doe understands how the story will unfold.…

An absolute landmark of cinema. A breathtaking film.

An experience that is difficult to decipher, but not to enjoy. The themes are layered on with such poetic complexity that it is difficult to comprehend fully. Just as meaning teases your grasp, Bergman moves in another direction.

This is his Sgt. Peppers or his Pet Sounds. Bergman had been brilliant up to '66, but here he takes cinema in an entirely different direction. The choice of images, the black and white…

I suppose the temptation is to flex the intellectual engine and wax lyrical about film as dream, film as wish fulfilment etc. - maybe another time, as I really came here for the classic banana peel on the floor gag....

So much is packed into 45 minutes: the funniest detective following his suspect scene in film history; a spectacular, hair-raising motor-bike stunt. There are some fabulous and chucklesome trick-shots at the pool table; and the fastest costume change ever put…

Always a joy to watch this on a big screen. And it's easier to spot the oranges.

Film-making and storytelling of the highest order. It ages like a fine wine.

It is simply a brilliant movie.

It still amazes how Coppola manages to construct such a finely paced and gripping movie whilst painting on the largest of canvases. So many narrative threads that combine into the most perfect of endings. The violent set-pieces are so elegantly woven into the crime…

There's too much going on in this film to review this in detail tonight. It would take at least 5,000 words to do this movie justice.

One of the most complex, emotional and philosophical films ever made. No wonder one can watch it many, many times and it never fails to fascinate and surprise.

James Stewart is astonishing in this film. The full range of human experience is written on his face. Simply, one of the greatest screen performances there…