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Pacific Rim, Monsters University, The Deep: this week's new films

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Pacific Rim | Monsters University | The Deep | Blancanieves | Trap For Cinderella | The Moo Man | We Steal Secrets: The Story Of Wikileaks | Citadel | Cleopatra | Play | Les Invisibles | Bhaag Milkha Bhaag

**Pacific Rim** (12A) *
*(Guillermo del Toro, 2013, US) Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi. 131 mins**

You can boil this sci-fi spectacle down to Transformers vs Godzillas, but with Del Toro at the helm it's the thinking person's big, dumb blockbuster: an unironic, city-stomping smash-up mixing state-of-the-art effects with curiously antiquated action-movie dynamics. There's just enough human interest to sustain it, but this is all about giant machines, giant aliens and deafening destruction.

**Monsters University* (U)
(Dan Scanlon, 2013, US) Billy Crystal, John Goodman. 110 mins*

Animal House for pre-schoolers? The college setting is questionable and the originality scarce, making this an acceptable, colourful prequel rather than another Pixar triumph.

**The Deep* (12A)
(Baltasar Kormákur, 2012, Ice) Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Jóhann G Jóhannsson. 93 mins*

Visceral but unsensational rendition of a shipwrecked fisherman's miraculous survival in freezing Icelandic waters.

**Blancanieves* (12A)
(Pablo Berger, 2012, Spa/Fra/Bel) Maribel Verdú, Macarena Garcia. 105 mins*

A retro silent in The Artist vein, this Spanish curiosity puts a 1920s bullfighting spin on Snow White.

**Trap For Cinderella* (15)
(Iain Softley, 2013, UK) Tuppence Middleton, Alexandra Roach. 100 mins*

An amnesiac burns victim attempts to piece together her past in this twisty low-budget thriller.

**The Moo Man* (U)
(Heike Bachelier, Andy Heathcote, 2013, UK) 98 mins*

A caring local dairy farmer is posited as an endangered alternative to industrialised food production, in this year-in-the-life doc.

**We Steal Secrets: The Story Of Wikileaks* (15)
(Alex Gibney, 2013, US) 130 mins*

A polished take on the Assange/Manning saga that compensates for the absence of its two subjects with key interviewees, rigorous research and Brass Eye-level graphics.

**Citadel* (15)
(Ciaran Foy, 2012, Ire/UK) Aneurin Barnard, James Cosmo, Wunmi Mosaku. 85 mins*

Are hoodies the spawn of Satan? This social-realist horror asks the question after an attack on Barnard's pregnant wife leaves him a paranoid single dad, and potential victim.

**Cleopatra* (PG)
(Joseph L Mankiewicz, 1963, US) Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison. 251 mins*

50th-anniversary reissue for the mythically bloated Egyptian epic.

**Play* (15)
(Ruben Östlund, 2011, Swe/Den/Fin) Kevin Vaz, Anas Abdirahman, Johan Jonason. 118 mins*

Swedish race/immigration issues are broached in this controversial reconstruction of a petty youth crime, which prefers to observe rather than judge.

**Les Invisibles* (15)
(Sébastien Lifshitz, 2012, Fra) 115 mins*

Older French gay and lesbian couples look back on their lives, providing a window on a more oppressive era, and a tribute to enduring love.

**Bhaag Milkha Bhaag* (PG)
(Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, 2013, Ind) Farhan Akhtar, Sonam Kapoor. 188 mins*

Inspirational biopic of 1960s runner Milkha Singh, AKA "The Flying Sikh".

*Out from Friday*

*Akira*

Reissue of the 1988 Manga classic.

Out from Sat

*Breathe In*

Guy Pearce stars in Drake Doremus's intimate drama.

*The World's End*

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in Edgar Wright's comedy.

*Wadjda*

Groundbreaking Saudi film about a girl.

*The Frozen Ground*

John Cusack is a serial killer? Nicolas Cage thinks so.

*Eden*

Jamie Chung heads up a 1990s-set sex-trafficking thriller.

*Suspension Of Disbelief*

Mike Figgis returns with a teasing London noir.

*Easy Money*

Hit Swedish crime thriller centred on a high-class drug dealer.

*Roman Holiday*

Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck's classy European romance.

*Coming soon*

*In two weeks ... *Hugh Jackman gets his claws into *The Wolverine *… Greta Gerwig almost grows up in *Frances Ha *…

*In three weeks ...* Ryan Gosling seeks redemption in *Only God Forgives *… Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy turn on *The Heat *…

*In a month ...* Liquid Coogan in *Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa *… Johnny Depp saddles up to ride with *The Lone Ranger *…

Steve Rose


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