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A sophisticated palate will discern any number of flavours running through Black Bag, but these are glosses on a traditional recipe.

As paper-thin friendships tear apart and allegiances ebb and flow, the body count climbs in a spirited and inventive fashion.

You've seen it all before, but that's its strength. That cranked footage, those desperate eyes, the obscuring sand.

A mishmash of all the usual poor wannabe filmmaker clichés

Ultimately more heart-warming and life-affirming than you would ever imagine a film centred on casual violence could be.

The deliberate airlessness - which finds contrast in the likes of Miss Harris' joy at her first knickerbocker glory - works well initially, but as Nighy has less screen time and the film slips into considerations of the switch in Williams' life in the past tense, it drifts towards the stagey.

This is a film that lets words sizzle more than anything.

Perhaps Winding Refn’s most deliberately difficult work to date.

In the end, The Show bites off more than it can chew, but it makes a good effort and there’s plenty there to please the fans.

The costumes in The Souvenir speak volumes about female and male desire and the search for identity that garments can encompass.

It seemed all horribly downhill until the end scenes – which, in total contrast, induce a state of shock.

Shot in square format, the film keeps us close, closed-in, forcing viewers into the same overwhelming intimacy that Kate is experiencing.

As a director Adamik is good when it is close up and claustrophobic.

Pugh's performance, which dovetails nicely with newcomer Cassidy’s devout determination as Anna, can’t quite overcome the uneven plotting and, at times, flimsy characterisation.