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At its core, Adventureland is a surprisingly sweet and tender coming-of-age romance.

The wide-eyed young girl Sophie, who possesses a wisdom and bravura beyond her years, is beautifully caught by newcomer Ruby Barnhill.

Meatballs doesn't bother throwing much at the audience, it uses 3D technology mainly to add depth rather than extend the action outwards.

Rich and strange, although its trippy, LSD vibe becomes almost overwhelming in places.

How the characters deal with grief is beautifully captured in the nuanced performances of McAvoy and Chastain.

Balance is the thing and Stanton and MacLane know when to use a well-timed piece of slapstick or visual gag to cut through sentiment.

Finding out that your girlfriend is leaving you for another man is humiliating enough, but finding out that he's Russell Brand is another story.

It is in these details, the small objects Jonze provides us with in his film of disembodied desires, that essences become distilled.

While the cast is odd they all do their best with what they're given, and in some cases their best is more than what's deserved.

As usual with Pixar the film operates on twin levels - with one part going straight over the heads and minds of its junior target audience and the other heading directly to their parents.

Essentially, what we're getting here is Buzz's origin story, which is all well and good but episodic.

Director Rebecca Miller gets terrific performances out of an admittedly terrific cast.

Whether the stars will align for the rejuvenated franchise is unclear, but for now there's a surprising amount of extraterrestrial fun to be had here.

What you expect from a bunch of stoners, but done well enough so you won't care.

The end product of a long and dismal trend in American indies, where the effort to create art just like the art one saw last week has produced a formula that is exponentially recursive.

If you’ve ever wanted to see a bagel and a lavash engaging in homosexual activity used as an argument for why Israel and Palestine should just y’know, smoke some weed and get on with each other, here’s your chance!

I honestly wish I'd written this movie, and I suspect a handful of people my age feel the same way.

Perfectly watchable and occasionally touching despite itself.

Visually colourful but narratively bland.