1.CAPOTE (15): During his research for his book In Cold Blood, an account of the murder of a Kansas family, Truman Capote develops a close relationship with Perry Smith, one of the killers.

2. SYRINA(15): George Clooney's Oscar-winning role as a CIA agent is just one of the many outstanding features of this intricate movie about intelligence and terrorism in the oil industry.

3. BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN(15): Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick take on the roles they originated on Broadway. The Producers is every bit as entertaining as the stage musical.

3. THE WORLD'S FASTEST INDIAN(12A): Anthony Hopkins stars in this charming film, the true story of Burt Munro whose lifelong dream is to travel to the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah and set a new land speed record.

5. WALK THE LINE(12a): Joaquin Phoenix takes on the Herculean task of embodying legendary country singer Johnny Cash through his pivotal years and the young actor is truly electrifying.

6 . INSIDE MAN(15): Denzel Washington, Clive Owen and Jodie Foster star in Spike Lee's slickly executed heist thriller. With echoes of The Usual Suspects and Dog Day Afternoon, no one is quite what they seem in this edge-of-seat thriller.

7. A COCK AND BULL STORY(15) Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon and a host of well-known faces star in this post-modern adaptation of The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.

8. THE PINK PANTHER (PG) Steve Martin takes on the role of the bumbling Inspector Clouseau in this remake. Much of the comedy verges on the moronic and illogical.

9. CASANOVA(12A)Heath Ledger plays a very different romantic hero in Lasse Hallstrom's playful, lusty romp inspired by the legend of the Renaissance-era bounder. Ledger and Sienna Miller make an attractive screen couple.

10. BASIC INSTINCT 2 (18) Sharon Stone is back as the sexually voracious, best-selling crime novelist Catherine Tramell.