Reviews

Confused and rather dull boy-loses-girl story which inexplicably got some pant-wetting reviews. The greatly admired David Gordon Green loosely introduces us to the small-town Romeo and younger college girl who fall in love, only for her brother to kick up a rumpus and for her to break hearts. It's all wilfully vague and indecisive, and her infidelity doesn't make sense. Terrence Malick meets Dawson's Creek.

Angst on the farm in the debut from young French auteur Damien Odoul, a simultaneously harsh and dreamlike account of the coming of age of Pierre-Louis Bonnetblanc, a confused, alienated teen trapped on his uncle's dilapidated spread, where older farmhands introduce him to liquor and mannish ways, with ruinous results. Shot in pristine monochrome, it's a memorable experience, aiming, albeit a little self-consciously, toward a surreal poetry.

More of Humphrey's best moments on a two-disc set

Dependable avant-pop from Anglo-French institution

Post-rockers do '80s stadium rock

Valedictory album from singer who'd experienced a renaissance in the late '90s

Seattle songstress' magnificent fourth album finds her deep in fire and ice

Reissue of prototype Mancunian punk-funksters' debut album

Cracking mod anthology from former NME receptionist and erstwhile chum of Paul Weller

Gripping drama of the American Dream gone sour