Ryan Gosling also stars in Drive, a tough, stylish thriller that deservedly won Nicolas Winding Refn the best director gong at the Cannes Film Festival. Gosling gives a laconic, sexy, quietly charming performance evocative of Steve McQueen, as a Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver.

Steve (Steve Coogan), an actor hoping to "hit it big in America," is hired by the Observer to review the finest eateries in England's Lake District and Yorkshire Dales. But when his girlfriend Mischa (Margo Stilley) opts out of accompanying him, he asks some other friends to go but they all are too busy. As his last choice, Steve invites Rob (Rob Brydon), a very laid-back actor and he accepts.

Walter Black is depressed. He should be. The toy manufacturing business he inherited is going under. His teen son Porter (Anton Yelchin) despises him and his wife Meredith (Jodie Foster, also directing) has lost all patience with him. Walter is such a loser he can't even manage his own suicide.

Who knew that beneath her coolly gorgeous exterior, Catherine Deneuve is actually funny? In “Potiche” — French for “trophy wife” — the 67-year-old actress finally gets to do comedy. Granted, it’s not the sort of grandstanding you see in most American yuk-fests, but it’s delightful nonetheless.

Operating out of the back seat of his chauffeured but shabby Lincoln Town Car, attorney Mick Haller is not exactly an ambulance chaser. But he is in the general neighborhood. More shifty than ghoulish, he's the kind of guy who pays off bail bondsmen and calls it client development.

One of the most popular books of recent years has been Sara Gruen's 2006 novel WATER FOR ELEPHANTS. It stars ROBERT PATTINSON as Jacob Jankowski a young man of immigrant parents who is just about to sit his final exams in veterinary science at Cornell University when he learns his parents have been killed in a road crash.

The director Kelly Reichardt (Old Joy, Wendy And Lucy) deconstructs, de-mythologizes and thoroughly redefines the American western with Meek’s Cutoff, a mesmerizing cinematic journey that is often as arduous and spare as the lives of its hard-bitten protagonists.

It is the autumn of 1995 and Victor has just returned home to Montreal's Notre-Dame-de-Grace neighborhood after a time away working in China. He returns to a very different home than the one he left.

A documentary portrait of a New York Times fashion and society photographer, Bill Cunningham New York is as winning as its subject, the affable chronicler of New York style from the sidewalk to the runway. The handsome, jovial 82-year-old, on his 29th Schwinn bicycle (he’s had 28 of them stolen), scoots between taxis through the streets of Manhattan.

Directed by Justin Chadwick, The First Grader is based on a true story and set in Kenya in 2003. Oliver Litondo stars as 84-year-old farmer and ex-freedom-fighter Kimani Ng’ang’a Maruge, who decides to take advantage of a new government initiative: free primary schooling for all.