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Action is controlled and distinguished by its restraint.

The Beast explores what Henry James diagnosed so devastatingly. The chill of egotism and the feverish dance around the void are so desperately relevant today that it leaves one breathless.

An affecting blend of warm comedy and high pathos, The Boys Are Back brings an unusual all-male perspective to its otherwise familiar themes of domesticity, death and dysfunction.

Hopkins has an eye for a telling image and coaxes powerful, committed performances from his cast.

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.

Everything is fairly predictable and heavily signposted.

It’s ironic that a film about a family who have built a perfect facsimile of a life for themselves should feel so overly constructed itself

The tension is masterfully handled in a revenge thriller narrative which also poses difficult ethical questions.

Falls just shy of a state of perfection.

A feelgood parable of human nature's ability to extract the positive from a negative.

Jenkin’s style, impressionistic when it comes to places, is particular in regard to objects, the real anchors of our lives.

Sergio G Sánchez has lofty ambitions, involving guilt, coming of age and a whisper of the supernatural - but without the emergency brake he is usually offered by whichever director he is working with to rein him in.

There are no weak links in the top-notch cast.

It may be one of the finest performances you see this year, and see it you should.