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The odyssey of Downey and Galifianakis is composed of far too many sharp edges and far too little warmth.

Rarely has a film been so serious in its underlying implications and intent, and yet so moronic in its execution.

Nicely dressed, nicely lit, nicely shot, and completely empty of both wit and observation.

In Gone Baby Gone, Affleck transposes Dennis Lehane’s searing novel about child abduction to the big screen without sacrificing either its dark mood or moral ambivalence.

This film sees the brothers right back on form but ringing a few changes and even making the odd serious point.

Usually with a comedy you're lucky to get one genuine laugh-out-loud moment. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang has at least half a dozen.

If you're in the mood for a nicely crafted, well-acted, thoroughly entertaining time-filler featuring familiar faces who are well within their comfort zone, you could do far worse.

It is commendable that Gerard Butler, director Marc Foster and writer Jason Keller have tried to bring the issue of child soldiers to as wide an audience as possible - but though its heart may be in the right place, it never finds a steady rhythm.

Open your eyes. Admire the death defying artistry.

Abrams combines kinetic action sequences with internal logic-fuelled storytelling to give us an impossible mission head, shoulders and a rabbit's foot above the previous two instalments.

The concept is halfway interesting, the production so overburdened with explosive devices it might have been made in Iraq and the screenplay is as appetising as damp toast.

The lighting used by cinematographer Rina Yang is some of the best I can recall in an American independent film since Moonlight.

Lacking any sort of critical distance or self-reflection, it’s merely a wafer-thin portrait of an artist suffering from… something.

Ben Ripley's script is far less interested in the technical aspects of its own apparatus than in the human condition itself – our desperate search for big answers and satisfying closure, and the mortality that both delimits and perhaps ennobles this very

Monaghan is superb, creating a character whose unlikeliness doesn't detract from her believability.