This week's new cinema reviews

Precious (15) (Lee Daniels, 2009, US) Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey. 110 mins.It sounds like a relentlessly depressing pile-up of miseries: the tale of a 1980s Harlem teenager who's poor, lonely, overweight, undereducated, abused by both parents, and pregnant for the second time by her father. And it gets worse after that. But, mercifully, this doesn't play by European social realist rules, throwing in flourishes of fantasy and even comedy, and offering glimmers of hope, ...

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