Films in brief: Laurence Anyways, Rise of the Guardians But it's with no satisfaction, I promise, that I must describe Laurence Anyways, the tale of an out-but-not-yet-proud transvestite, as Dolan's most self-indulgent and least successful venture yet. I still think it's quite good - vibrantly visualised, emotionally risky, and buoyed up by the soundtrack of the year. It's just too much like an overlong catwalk show. Rise of the Guardians PG cert, 97 min One star Father Christmas, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and Jack Frost have all starred in dreadful films of their own, but Peter Ramsey's computer-generated cartoon, which unites the foursome as a team of heroes battling the Boogeyman, must be the ne plus ultra of malign seasonal tat. The Guardians themselves are a powerfully unlovely bunch - Santa, voiced by Alec Baldwin, is a tattooed Cossack - and the chase-intensive plot has blatantly been schemed with both eyes on the inevitable tie-in video game. Deplorable. Yossi 15 cert, 80 min Three stars The Israeli filmmaker Eytan Fox checks in with one of the protagonists of his 2002 gay military romance Yossi & Jagger in this slight but tenderly played drama. Yossi, now a closeted and lonely surgeon in Tel Aviv, decides to pep up his life with an impromptu holiday. Electric Man 12A cert, 100 min Zero stars Low-budget caper about a stolen comic book that is, with the best will in the world, unfit for human consumption. Also released Alex Cross 15 cert, 101 min Thriller featuring James Patterson's detective hero. Not screened for critics.