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Unfortunately, though all the performances are strong, there's simply not enough chemistry between the leads to make their struggle believable.

Lee Hall's multi-faceted script manages to open up the story behind the strike, touches on sexuality and expression through art while appearing to be just telling a damn good story.

Cargo gets scuppered by its serpentine story, which is more confusing than compelling.

The film has more violent action than a PG-certificate dares admit to and looks suitably legendary.

The acting is ensemble, which means no-one stands out and everyone chips in. Day-Lewis, unrecognisable behind a 'tache wedge, is the most memorable, due to The Butcher being a bigger sicko than anyone else.

Bright, breezy, and most importantly fun.

It's not so much kitchen sink, as tenement trauma.

The humour and emotion are so sharp you might not feel them at the time, but Mullan's film cuts deep and leaves its mark.

If there is one positive thing that can be said about the film it is that it lives up to the promise of its title.

As a debut feature, it is to be applauded.

This is Catholic working class life beyond the limits of restraint where the concept of social order collapses and acts of individual kindness come as a surprise.

This is a deftly packaged film, with a deeply satisfying pay off.

Danny Boyle directs with the right balance of tension and wit, never forgetting that violence begets violence as one thing leads to another.

True North is an unremittingly grim and claustrophobic portrayal of life in desperate circumstances, but it's engagingly told, threaded through with humour, and it makes for compulsive viewing.

The difficulty with sustaining intensity for any period of time is that it so easily becomes ridiculous, but there is absolutely nothing in this brutal, at times violent film that will have you laughing.

Amazingly for a film so teeming with ideas, it unspools in clean, lucid scenes of near Spartan simplicity.