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The audience should be warned that the film boasts a cliche level that could also be hazardous to health.

Not only does she get the tone of Ball right, Kidman also captures the comedy star's forthright energy, an essential fearlessness and truthfulness about herself that Sorkin also evidently admires.

Bardem gives a stronger, more all-encompassing performance here than we have seen in any of his previous films.

Where the film really scores is with its brave exploration of the phenomenon of terrorism.

It is pretty.

Dune at least looks, sounds, amazing, though not always.

While Farhadi certainly knows how to spin a web of intrigue, deceit and suspicion, the narrative has a tendency to leap from strand to strand, often leaving the audience stumbling in its wake.

Seated in the front-row of the cinema, it's hard not to lean into corners. Once you're committed to that the rest follows.

The balance of Javier Bardem's central performance as the CEO of the title is what elevates this from being another run-of-the-mill satire.

Forman loses direction and the two halves of the film remain indifferent to each other. Portman overacts to a degree that simplifies madness to a stereotype.

The story lacks originality

Its reach doesn’t quite meet its stretch, but there are very good reasons why you should watch it anyway.

It's like Boys From The Blackstuff, Spanish-style, a tragic story, told with love and black humour.

In the realm of the insane reason has no place. Anything is possible. Even the impossible

Against the whisper of wind and buzz of flies, the Coens manage to find tension in the subtlest of movements and cut the dialogue through with humour as arid as the landscape.

The gratutious violence sickens. The grandstand sex is faked.

Visually the film excels. There are scenes that lavish the mind's eye

This is the best-looking Bond film ever made.

Bardem's performance is astonishing, not so much in his ability to mimic a wasted body, but by capturing the essence of a lively intelligence.

Once again, Malick tackles the big themes full on – love, the nature of creation and creativity, the relationship of Man to God, and of humanity to the environment – and reaches what seems to me a pretty pessimistic conclusion.

The best movie this wonderful writer/director has made in a long time; funny, sharp, perfectly paced and rather gorgeously shot, with a quartet of cracking parts for excellent actors placed firmly at its centre.