Recently by Brogan Morris

Roughly a fortnight ago, the world's movie critics began to release their run-downs of what they considered to be the best feature films of 2010. I was not one of these people.

After the New Hollywood movement spent the '60s and '70s trying to culturally liberate us, it feels like we've reverted back to the Dark Ages. Cinema is as bland, idiotic and commercialised now as it was in the 1950s, with producers as clueless to our needs as they were back then. The only difference is producers today don't seem to care.

In the Summer of 1987, James Brennan (Jesse Eisenberg) graduates from College with his sights set on a road trip across Europe and a place at New York's prestigious Columbia University. However, difficulties arise when James' parents run into money troubles - in place of a once-in-a-lifetime European journey, James must spend his Summer working at Adventureland, a theme park in his home town of Pittsburgh. While there, he befriends his oft-eccentric fellow workers, including the pipe-smoking Joel (Martin Starr), aspiring rock star and maintenance guy Connell (Ryan Reynolds) and the troublesome Em (Kristen Stewart).

Whereas Shane Meadows' largely auto-biographical 2007 movie This Is England was an account of Shaun Fields' (Meadows' alter-ego) young life as part of a gang of skinheads, This Is England '86 sees Shaun three years down the line, leaving school only to find himself reintroduced to the band of loveable rogues he once thought he'd seen the back of. Reduced to a smaller role within an ensemble comprised of This Is England's original cast, taking centre stage instead of Thomas Turgoose's Fields is Vicky McClure's fiery Lol.

Toronto band Sex Bob-omb bassist Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) is in a funk: while dating highschooler Knives Chau (Ellen Wong), Pilgrim falls for the mysterious Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), the girl of his dreams. To make matters worse, he must first defeat Ramona's seven evil exes - including movie star Lucas Lee (Chris Evans), rival bass guitarist Todd Ingram (Brandon Routh) and a pair of Japanese twins - before he can make her his girlfriend.

Picture the scene: a Parisian gangster, the sharp-suited Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo), is on the run from the French police.

With a 17 year-old Andy heading off to College, his long-forgotten toys, including Woody (Tom Hanks), Buzz (Tim Allen), Jessie (Joan Cusack), Mr. Potato Head (Don Rickles) and Hamm (John Ratzenberger), are in danger of being left behind. Finding themselves instead sent to toy haven Sunnyside Daycare centre, Woody and co. are taken in by the loveable Lotso Huggin' Bear (Ned Beatty), head toy of Sunnyside. However, Lotso may not be all as he seems - he and his plethora of toy minions may have an ulterior motive for welcoming the unassuming newcomers into their home.

Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a thief excelling in the art of dream extraction, stealing secrets from people's minds for shady organisations. For his last job, Cobb is given a proposition by businessman Saito (Ken Watanabe): plant an idea in the mind of the heir to a global energy corporation (Cillian Murphy) and Cobb will be allowed back into his American homeland and see his estranged children again. Cobb must first assemble a crack team for the ultimate anti-heist - Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), the point man; Eames (Tom Hardy), the forger; Yusuf (Dileep Rao), the chemist; and Ariadne (Ellen Page), the architect.

Of all the great American director's work, Munich deserves a re-appraisal as the best Spielberg film ever made. It's an unconventional choice, perhaps, but probably only because it's one of his least-seen pictures. Plus, could a director responsible for so many happy childhood memories and famous for family fare like Jurassic Park, E.T., Close Encounters and Indiana Jones, really be any good at making a bleak, graphically violent, paranoid revenge drama centred on a character faced with an - by the credits - unresolved crisis of faith and identity?

A semi-sequel to 2008's Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him to the Greek sees Sarah Marshall's recovering rock star Aldous Snow (Russell Brand) fall off the wagon after his latest album bombs and his long-time partner, songstress Jackie Q (Rose Byrne), leaves him. Meanwhile, music executive Aaron Green (Jonah Hill) hatches a plan to re-invigorate Snow's career: a live concert at LA's Greek theatre. Green has 72 hours to escort Snow from London to LA, more than enough time were it not for Snow's determination to party hard and his propensity to leave a path of destruction everywhere he goes, roping Green ever more into his decadent lifestyle.