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As a thumbnail analysis of the middle-class American psyche, Alan Ball's script is a devastating attack. It is also extremely funny.

This is not the action thriller it has been billed as but a slow, smouldering portrait of a man losing his way.

In his attempt to avoid Western cliches, Winterbottom is in danger of going too far the other way.

Tyler Shelds' surreal fairytale is part morality play, part action thriller, all of it stylishly shot.

The English bits tend to drag dreadfully.

Honestly, the full import of all this was lost on me, but since writer/director Mark Steven Johnson seems similarly confused about the whole deal, let's just call it even.

Ross avoids the hyperbole of gore and mayhem to keep the emotions of what is happening so near the bone it hurts.

Not many films are as important to the future of humanity as Interstellar.

Malick and his cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, if nothing else, deliver stunningly beautiful vistas and backdrops for his narratives and characters, yet like the characters, there seems to be something empty at its core.

Familiar situations are the order of the day. Chalk and cheese personalities are thrown together and must overcome some ordeal, which is normally an old flame.

Open your eyes. Admire the death defying artistry.

All the pieces are in place for a great thriller – and then, just like your typical Yuletide get-together, it all falls a little flat.

The candy-coloured elements of the 1977 original have gone but, perhaps inevitably for Disney, traces of sticky sentiment remain in this otherwise enjoyably earthy re-imagining.

Empathy with a victim is the key to scaring the living daylights out of an audience. Carpenter fails to do this, because his heroine spends the entire movie as confused as everyone else.

This role is something quite new for Bosworth, and she handles it with considerable aplomb

Instantly forgettable but enjoyable enough.

There have been bad films. There have been terrible films. And then there's Welcome To Me

Zac Efron portrays Cole as appealingly handsome, talented and gregarious and it’s safe to say that his performance rescues what could have been an irredeemably obnoxious film.