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Stephanie Allynne and Tig Notaro are impressively attuned to the humanity of their characters.

A thriller that, although it could have done with judicious editing at the beginning and end, nonetheless delivers laughs, shocks and, most importantly, that sense of satisfaction that only comes when puzzle pieces come together with a resounding click

You have to care for these people to give a damn. That's hard.

It's true what they say about violence. Too much and you become immune.

The reason all this earnestness works is because Raiff really cares about all his characters, taking time to consider each in their own right.

Fifty Shades is romcom without much com: an old-fashioned soft porn flick designed to appeal to women “of a certain age” (and younger).

Fifty Shades is rapidly becoming a modern erotic version of Dallas.

The problem isn’t that we seen it all before – it’s that we’ve seen it all done better. Much better.

The film comes into its own because of Gyllenhaal's non-judgemental perspective, even sympathy, for the small suffocations of motherhood.

If the smell of exhaust nauseates you and the sight of skinny grown boys going all the way with macho machines makes you want to take up cycling, stand well back

It’s hard to care about a film when those involved don’t appear to have done so themselves.

If we compared the original to a Mark Rothko canvas - a distillation of raw emotion - this version is more akin to a colossal, baffling kinetic sculpture, one that seems to exist in more dimensions than it ought to.