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Cassavetes could easily have made all this into a dead serious finger-wagging morality tale of wasted youth. Fortunately, he realises the potential for jet-black comedy.

As the plots begin to coalesce everything becomes far too overwrought.

Øvredal takes a handful of old tricks - a cheery song playing unexpectedly, lights blinking out in a corridor one by one, the tinkling of a bell - and uses them to chilling effect. The result is a film you really won't want to watch alone.

I'm surprised that there wasn't a tech on set who could have told people how electricity works.

Walpoth knows how to handle action, and there’s plenty of it here, up close and messy, characters improvising in ways that tend to test stunt teams much more than smooth martial arts moves.

On a whole different level from most films of its ilk.

The film's confused attitude towards pornography is one of the things that lets it down.

Penn’s camera loves the landscape and captures its immensity.

Struggles with pacing.

Friedkin has fun seeing how far he can push the envelope with swift, bloody violence and frequent full-frontal female nudity.

One of the dullest films about war ever made.

The narrative pushes along at a reasonable pace... but only really picks up when the boys start becoming famous, which makes and breaks their future careers.

In one of the finest performances of his career, Sean Penn is understated to convey finer feeling, yet passionate on the soap box to an inspirational degree.

Tarantino's on good form but there are moments in the middle of the 165-minute marathon where it flags before mustering for its finale.

Hirsch, who is nothing if not prolific, hasn’t had great luck with his recent roles, but dominates most of this film and gets to remind us what he’s capable of.

The end result is a kind of funny/kind of sad character study that asks questions about our relationships with others and our environment.

As the shiny roadsters perform death defying stunts to get to the chequered flag, I defy the greenest carphobe not to feel their pulse racing.

The best actors are capable of salvaging something even in the worst situations.

A loving and gently funny take on one of the defining moments of America’s counter-culture era.

Though she's following in the footsteps of many an exploitation movie heroine before her, Kravitz carries it well.