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Christian Bale delivers his best performance for years as fund manager Michael Burry.

The plot becomes tangled in its own loose ends

Crowe's too substantial a lead man to fit into these Hugh Grant-ish shoes.

Although there's mercifully little football in this, there's also minimal emotional depth.

Formulaic but exuberant, packed with quirky humour and very difficult not to like.

Despite the good laughs, I Give It A Year is predictable.

So riddled with logic gaps, dumb character decisions and simple confusion about how we should view the entire conceit, that the actual genetic recreation of dinosaurs from 65 million years ago starts looking believable in comparison.

Director Destin Daniel Cretton takes it at the right pace and avoids made-to-measure emotional hooks.

The introductory credits are among the most marvellous images seen on screen.

Disbelief is suspended by a thread so fine it is in danger of snapping almost constantly.

Writer Jeff Murphy and director Adrian Shergold use the comedic pretext to explore themes around mental illness and the damage done to people in poverty by a system obsessed with meting out punishment.

This big-screen epic is immersive less for its binocular vistas than for their impossibly grand scale

Fear is a delicate emotion. It's not what you see, it's what you think you are going to see.

There is certainly some pleasing schadenfreude, but it doesn’t have the nerve to go all out, and ultimately it’s not as clever as it thinks it is.

Despite showing a lot of directorial potential, the film is let down somewhat by its story, as Thorne forgets that an audience, like the scouts, need to be prepared for plot developments if we are to fully accept them.

The whole thing is outdated to the dustiest degree with the flag of the Empire flying free from the masts of their imagination

We are plunged into the dark, dank realms of institutionalised racism and all the blood-boiling fury it conjures.

The script is as flat as Monday morning

An ostensibly rousing speech is aiming for Braveheart but has all the grip one would expect from an address to an adhesive sales conference.