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Memory, reality, fact and fiction blend to give you a vivid 'feel' for the interviewees' recollections while being acutely aware that this remains a remembered reconstruction of the past.

There is a healthy streak of cynicism running through Blood Diamond.

The comedy is sharp, the acting excellent, the racial harmony likely to splinter as suddenly as family solidarity.

Exam drifts from being genuinely enigmatic and moody to derivative, disappointing, even ridiculous.

The humour is so crass, to call it dumbed-down would be expansive.

The problem is that whatever you find to like in this film you're almost certain to find other aspects of it extremely irritating.

There is a message here, concerning success, power and humiliation, but it's one that you know already.

A ragbag of cliches, in which Richard Harris attempts to give an acting lesson.

The film is elevated by a superb turn from Mistry.

The script never leaves the starting block, the sexual touch paper fails to ignite and the acting has no lead in its pencil.

Although the comedy feels as broad as the Atlantic initially, once the main characters are transplanted to Pakistan things look up as the script begins to properly probe the emotional flaws of the characters rather than just opting for cheap laughs.