Magnolia Long-awaited follow-up to Boogie Nights from wunderkind Paul Thomas Anderson, taking an epic, Altmanesque overview of various San Fernando flotsam and jetsam (Tom Cruise included).

Being John Malkovich More than faintly touched music video director Spike Jonze makes his predictably deranged - and unexpectedly accomplished - feature debut. Nietzschean puppeteers, sexual identity crises and, yes, John Malkovich: it's all in there.

Toy Story 2 The state-of-the-art computer animation remains eyebogglingly impressive: more importantly, there's a genuinely involving storyline thrown in too.

The Ninth Gate Roman Polanski's first film in six years finds Johnny Depp as an antiquarian bookseller embroiled with satanic conspiracies. Could go either way.

The Insider Michael Mann and Al Pacino, director and star of Heat, reunite for the based-on-real-life story of tobacco corporation whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand (as played by LA Confidential's Russell Crowe)

Bleeder Danish cinema continues its ascendancy with the twentysomething Nicolas Winding Refn's ferocious, very much non-Dogme, Copenhagen-set drama.

Man On The Moon Jim Carrey winks broadly at the Academy in Milos Forman's biopic of Dadaist genius and sometime stand-up Andy Kaufman.

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai A peerlessly deadpan return to form for Jim Jarmusch, knee-deep in hip-hop, mafia hitmen and esoteric Japanese philosophy.

American Psycho The much talked about (and talked about, and talked about) Brett Easton Ellis adaptation finally surfaces, with Christian Bale as blood-splattered anti-hero Patrick Bateman.

Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? The Coen Brothers revisit the depression-era setting of Miller's Crossing as a trio of convicts - George Clooney among them - escapes from a Mississippi chaingang.