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Sentimental tosh

Distrust is a dangerous and volatile thing and Reeves' film shows how it is this rather than grandstanding gestures that often lead to conflict.

Murphy has long been underrated as an actor so it's really good to see him finally getting his teeth into something this meaty.

Where Luhrmann and Butler score are in the concert sequences in which the King truly comes alive.

It has nearly everything that filmgoers loved about Alfredson's Swedish original – except the originality.

Altogether the best exploration of Australian class conflicts through the medium of animated insects that you're likely to see this year.

It is gorgeous, both to look at and to listen to. It's perhaps Larrain's most accessible film, though that's as much to do with its star as its subject.

Elliot time and again marries darkness and light, sweetness with sour to create a satisfying emotional umami.

Overall the characters fail to transcend their archetypes, despite Kodi Smit-McPhee anchoring the film with real emotion.

Campion treats the material with such well-mannered reverence that you begin to wish that not just the characters, but she too, would loosen up a bit.

Pure, stripped-down bleakness, both in the desaturated drabness of its appearance and in the last-days essentialism of its themes.

Builds up an emotional head of steam that draws audiences towards it.

Maclean shows a land where loss of innocence is ever-present.

Without the all-star cast, it's easy to imagine X-Men: Apocalypse as a dismal failure, but the somewhat nonsensical script is rescued by the performances.

This was a great chance to cover one of the most iconic storylines in the history of comics, squandered by not handing the script to a five-year-old child in order to iron out some of the more egregious errors prior to filming.