Stars: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renee Zellwegger, Philip Seymour Hoffman
They say: In the closing months of the US Civil War, a Rebel deserter (Law) dodges Yankee raiders as he treks home to a pining sweetheart (Kidman).
We say: Despite a few too many lady-oriented lurve bits, this is a surprisingly bawdy, bloody trek across a shattered South.
Best bit: Zellwegger just losing the overacting award to Philip Seymour Hoffman’s scenery-chewing preacher.