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For farce to work well, the plotting needs to be watertight, whereas here the sheer excess of characters fails entirely to cover up this film's flimsy underpinnings.

Linstrom ends so inadequately you want to scream.

Alas, what we see does not meet its match in what we hear.

Told in an accessible and reassuringly crowd-pleasing way.

What's really revolutionary about this film is the way Ivory photographs male bodies.

Whether you’re a fan of the company’s work specifically or simply interested in the history of cinema, this portrait of its longest-lasting partnership will delight and entertain you.

The past and present are linked with only limited success.

After 15 minutes of fast zooms, sliced cuts, topsy pans and turvy close ups you want to be sick... after 40 minutes, you have eaten your words and are beginning to think this is original and thrilling.

Taghmaoui began his cinematic career at the top, starring in La Haine. This is a soft option, by comparison.

The cast could not be better.

The increasingly ridiculous nature of the narrative is almost wholly redeemed by the intensity of the director's vision.

While in plotting terms, the film pretty much stays in the lane you'd expect, it has plenty of heart.

In making V a symbol of vengeance, valiance and victory, V For Vendetta does for a letter of the alphabet what Kill Bill did for the colour yellow.

It’s sweetly done, well-observed and nicely acted, but I did find I was asking myself the whole way through ‘why is it that so many British films feel as though they are ‘made for TV’?’