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'70s/'80s best-of from Canadian progressive rockers

The homecoming Boy has come a long way

Eleventh LP from Michael Stipe's favourite singer-songwriter

The Cute Beatle reminds America who the real Boss is

Moody, brooding album by LA hipsters

Four-CD crash course from Texan tenor titan

Gritty cop thriller favours style over surprises

It's tempting to see Pedro Almodóvar's career as one steady progression from early Warholian kitsch like Pepi, Luci, Bom to recent audience-pleasing, Oscar-winning standouts like All About My Mother. If so, then the breathtaking Talk To Her is easily his career apogee and deftly confirms his status as one of the world's foremost filmmakers.

A stand-out hit among the current new wave of globally fê ted Latin American features, Fabián Bielinsky's fine caper thriller fucks with audience perception like a pumped-up David Mamet puzzler. A motley team of conmen and crooked cops progress from petty shop swindles to plan a rare stamp heist, but as the stakes escalate and the cast of characters broadens, nagging questions about who's hoodwinking who throw up dazzling wheels within wheels.

Indie landmark gets elaborate two-CD reissue