Sweet sex comedy

THE GIRL NEXT DOOR*
Cert 15, 109 mins

What happens if the girl next door happens to be a porn star? Porkies meets Risky Business - or so you might think from the poster which has a girl (Elisha Cuthbert from TV's 24) with a butt stuck out like a bustle, and a boy looking thrilled in a sensitive crew neck (a part surely written for Ferris Bueller).

This, however, is not entirely your average greasy teen movie, and frequently manages to be quite funny, and ambivalent, about vicious competitiveness at US high schools and sickly, sex-saturated modern life.

THE AGRONOMIST *
Cert 15, 90 mins

Jonathan Demme spent 15 years making this documentary about Jean Dominique, the beloved Haitian radio presenter and militant journalist for democracy who was assassinated on the steps of his radio station in 2000. Dominique saw to it that his Radio Haiti Inter always got the - often bizarre - truth out there in its free political debates and jingles, sung in Haitian Creole with taglines such as "We've stumbled, but we've never fallen!" (imagine that on Capital). The hero of free speech, his voice so musical, cuts a memorable figure.

BARBERSHOP 2: BACK IN BUSINESS X
Cert 12A, 93 mins

Starring Ice Cube as the community-conscious Chicago barber, this shot straight to the American No 1 slot, but that is no indicator of anything meaningful. Lately, up there, we have seen hobbits, Jesus and zombies.

AT FIVE IN THE AFTERNOON *
Cert U, 106 mins

Set in Afghanistan, just after the fall of the Taliban, this follows a young woman in her twenties at a secular girls' school. Made by Samira Makhmalbaf, daughter of the famed director of Kandahar, it is a sometimes impressive and very personal bit of craftwomanship.

STRANGE GARDENS*
Cert, 15, 95 mins

In wartime rural France, a couple of middle-aged friends bomb a Nazi-held signal box, and suffer the consequences. Sentimental.

The Girl Next Door
Cert: cert15