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As a cinematic first the audacity and imagination of Bart Leyton's way of working breaks new ground

The motivation at the centre of Bryan Singer's follow up to his scintilating debut, The Usual Suspects, is not so much dubious as blurred.

Taken as a whole, however, the director is trying too hard, pushing this family so far into caricature that we lose sight of the story of grief that is underpinning the shenanigans.

Is this a film about loss and how (not) to cope with it?

The bottom falls out of sanity in a way that, despite being based on real events, feels deeply unsatisfactory.

Rather than following somebody raised a girl who is learning to live as a boy, it's about a boy who, all too quickly, has to start learning to be a man.

A very New York film.

Portman captures something so rare that it defies description.

I personally found Aster’s film incredibly unsettling, one of the closest approximations to the kind of nightmares that really shake me that I have seen on film recently.

Young Davis is a real find, bringing such freshness and naturalism to the role of Jake that it's impossible to lose sight of what's at stake.

Kranz, best known for his acting career, certainly didn’t pick an easy project for his debut behind the camera, but his work proves exceptional.

An intense character study in triplicate, made gripping both by the deliberately ambiguous way in which Christina Choe approaches everyone's mental state and by the performances.

What is fatal is to make the mistake of thinking, because Hitchcock built up his illusions so well, that this is a story about nice people.

Bill Murray is acceptably crusty, but hardly huggable

This is a film about America's difficult relationship with race and the way that unresolved issues result in ongoing damage.