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As I Lay Dying looks and sounds great, and offers many individual moments of heightened intensity.

When it comes to what ultimately drove these two men to kill, Porto and Moors are more interested in difficult questions than easy answers and their film hits its target hard.

The dialogue is terrible but it has enough energy and spirit to entertain many viewers nonetheless.

The main problem lies with predictability and a fundamental lack of originality.

There comes a point where ingredients stop being a recipe and start resembling a shopping list.

Vigalondo's film is very funny in places but the characters are undercooked.

It's not quite as slick or sexy as the Ocean's movies, but it is steeped in personality.

What does it mean to be a real boy? Perhaps the answer doesn’t lie in flesh and bone.

Comedy this dark is a rarity. It deserves to be cherished.

Jones spares none of the gory details in his depiction of the way the West really was.

What on earth Weaver thinks she's doing in such a tangled mess is difficult to understand.

Predictable popcorn pap - this feels exactly like the holiday filler that it is.

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

Spielberg, as he is very good at, goes out on a limb to walk a tightrope of his own making between melodrama and sinewy storytelling.

Here, ideas do not flow hierarchically: they are conceived in the space between two individuals; they emerge from conversation and are endlessly recycled, coming to seem more like the obvious truth every time.

As painful as a kick in the pants.

Flashy future technology and architecture has been cleverly interwoven with the familiar, even the old-fashioned, to create a world which we can believe is not too far away from our own.

A masterclass in storytelling.

The problem with The Report is that despite this ongoing relevance, its powerful subject matter, the capable cast and an impressive script, it never builds up the impetus it ought to have.

An action-packed, critically intelligent thriller...the effect is both breathtaking and harrowing.

Made with consummate care, the film stands out for its exquisite cinematography.

Nil points for originality.

Stylistically the film is a bit of a mess, frontloading with all sorts of showy technique but then settling down into a more talky, actor-dominated approach.