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It's true that Voyage Of The Dawn Treader - as with all CS Lewis books - lionises God in more ways than one, but Christians are not the sole proprietors of the moral lessons learned.

The alchemy of film means that sometimes this amount of gold can still feel leaden.

The film is orchestrated at perfect pitch

Gerard Barett's low-budget drama is marked out by raw performances and a strong empathy for its characters that help buoy up its downbeat subject matter.

I suspected there'd be ideas introduced that lesser films would attempt to spin out while this grabbed another and another and another, and so it came to pass.

The plot is bonkers, but that's what you expect from this kind of thing

It takes its time to build but Pawel Pogorzelski's evocative cinematography will hold your attention in the meantime.

It looks like a made-for-TV-movie, with nothing cinematic, nothing original

Times are tough, women are either chattels or the stuff of magical realist dream sequences and dialogue is frequently cut adrift in favour of animalistic grunts and muscularity.

The script sizzles with humour, but more importantly, like Danny Boyle's Millions, it carries an emotional weight.

Thurber directs with broad brush strokes rather any finesse although the myriad close calls, mistaken identities and persuasions do produce their moments.

The steady - but never sluggish - pace allows the characters to live and breathe.