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28 Weeks Later... makes for scorching horror. Like the original, it offers a perfect blend of well-drawn characters, political allegory, grand guignol, flesh-crawling tension and very fast-moving zombies.

Rose Byrne just gets better and better.

There's something unconvincing about Seth Rogen playing a responsible adult that undercuts much of the comic tension in Bad Neighbours.

Rose Byrne anchors the whole damn thing with a performance that gives the sense of wobbling for eternity on a tightrope without ever quite falling off.

What really lifts this, beyond its smart scripting and clever shifts of mood, is its remarkable beauty.

Do you care? That’s asking a lot. The answer is not enough. Or, not at all.

Dropping the demonic angle in favour of a more clichéd serial killer back-story proves a major mistake – it scuppers all ambiguity and feels like a step back from the bedlam of the original.

A refreshing take on the usual period drama cliches, with a dry wit and a refreshing realism leavening the lush romance.

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

The title might sound risque but the end product is as safe, cosy and unoriginal as a Now That's What I Call Music Christmas gift.

What at first seems a simple premise with a dumb-assed popcorn resolution might well unravel in your head into something altogether more resonant and perplexing (or not).

Derek Cianfrance's The Place Beyond the Pines, tells stories of fatherhood with a fine-tuned generosity, as haunted men cycle through patterns spinning out of control.

It's hard to know exactly where the humour is heading, which is refreshing, but when it hits the high notes, it's both quirky and delivered with razor precision.

There is slapstick here, but we know Susan has the chops to handle things and we are thankfully never invited to simply 'laugh at the fat girl'.

Overall, the film looks fantastic. The special-effects work, which took a year of post-production to complete, wouldn’t look out of place in a movie with ten times the budget.

Nostalgia, soured by memory

Indulges a form of slow motion romantic slush that smoothes the rough edges and gives the film a polished sheen to disguise its mediocrity.

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.

It's not only the best X-Men film yet, it's a fantastic piece of cinema in its own right.