Dawson, we’re not in Wilmington any more.

From Wendy and Lucy director Kelly Reichardt comes a stripped down, neorealist anti-Western with plans to change our fundamentally childish conceptions of the gun-totin’, Injun-lynchin’ Old West. I miss my comfy stereotypes.

Excellent performances from Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams carry Derek Cianfrance’s romantic drama Blue Valentine; an intense and saddening portrayal of a couple’s courtship told in conjunction with scenes of their marriage’s potential breakdown. If only some time had been spared to show us what happened in between…

From the mind of one time prodigy Lukas Moodysson (Together, Show Me Love), Mammoth tells a Babel-esque story of two families as they co-exist on two sides of the planet. Unlike Babel, it does so brain-numbingly badly.

Kenneth Branagh may be playing Laurence Olivier in My Week with Marilyn, a film based on the diaries of Colin Clark.