Dior and I (12A)
four stars
Dir: Frederic Tcheng
Runtime: 90 minutes
FOLLOWING his successful films on Diana Vreeland and Valentino, Frederic Tcheng is fast becoming the Chanel of fashion documentary makers - classy, reliable, and possessing a sharp eye for the business. Here, his subject is Dior and the arrival at the maison of Raf Simons as artistic director. Mixing footage of Simons' first show with excerpts from the memoir of Dior himself, Tcheng explores the mix of art, culture and cash generation that fuels modern fashion. Of course it is all one big advertisement for the label, but Tcheng's eye for detail and great characters (the real stars here are the ladies who sew) make it an absorbing watch.
Get Hard (15)
one star
Dir: Etan Cohen
With: Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart
Runtime: 100 minutes
PUTTING Will Ferrell (Anchorman) and Kevin Hart (Modern Family) together ought to lead to double the comedy value, but not when the script is this half witted. Ferrell plays a frat boy financier who finds himself facing a jail term for fraud, with Hart the guy he hires to show him how to look after himself inside. What he doesn't know is that teach is in reality about as hard as a marshmallow. Etan Cohen's picture is basically Trading Places with male rape jokes, lots and lots of them, and is therefore about as funny as an actual ten-stretch.
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge out of Water (U)
three stars
Dirs: Paul Tibbitt, Mike Mitchell
Voices: Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke
Runtime: 93 minutes
WELCOME to Bikini Bottom, where bad puns go to laugh their cotton socks off in this movie version of the delightfully bonkers hit TV show. For those cruelly unacquainted with Bob, he's a sponge, he's square, and ... you get the idea. Join the world's nicest funster as he tries to recover the secret recipe behind Krabby Patties, the lack of which has turned BB into a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
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