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Film Of The Week
Superman Returns
The Krypton Factor
After five years away, Superman returns to Earth only to find Lois Lane with another man and Lex Luthor free from prison. "Superman becomes a kind of Superstalker"
Watch a Superman special on Movie Rush

Taxi Driver
Cabbin' fever
Robert De Niro is electrifying as the Vietnam-scarred taxi driver with a frightening take on the justice system in Martin Scorsese's stone-cold classic. "If you haven't seen Taxi Driver, your education
in film hasn't even begun"

Atomised
Poking liberals with a stick
Two half-brothers abandoned by their mother in the 1960s struggle to find intimacy as adults in this German adaptation of Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel. "A lurid melodrama that doesn't
do justice to Houellebecq's novel"

Ellie Parker Naomi Watts is an actress struggling to find love, integrity and that big break in LA.

"A tribute to all struggling artists"

11:14
Five different perspectives on one incident in a small US town at 11:14pm.

"Well-acted and watchable"

Also out this week

The Death Of Mr Lazarescu
Romanian black comedy

Must See Movies

It might not be plain sailing but Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest still raises the jolly roger from time to time. If you're on the look-out for original action, free-running romp District 13 more than fits the bill.
Editor's top 10 on release

Trailers

Check out trailers for all this week's releases, plus new promos for Apocalypto, Nacho Libre, Spider-Man 3 and Little Fish and a Miami Vice exclusive. Watch trailers

Box office top 10
1: Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (£13.74m)
Plenty of pieces of eight
2: Over The Hedge (£6.95m)
Critters sniff out box-office success
3: Just My Luck (£1.37m)
Far from McFly for a white guy
4: The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift (£5.29m)
Revving along nicely
5: The Wind That Shakes The Barley (£1.73m)
Ken Loach continues to mix it up with the big boys
6: The Lake House (£2.37m)
Waterlogged romantic drama
7: The Da Vinci Code (£29.95m)
Tom Hanks is Dan Brown
8: District 13 (£0.09m)
Out of the free running
9: X-Men: The Last Stand (£18.97m)
Mutated comic-book saga still raking it in
10: Krrish (£0.55m)
Bollywood sci-fi drama