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The motivation at the centre of Bryan Singer's follow up to his scintilating debut, The Usual Suspects, is not so much dubious as blurred.

Bohemian Rhapsody is as baroque and evocative a beast as its namesake song, thanks almost entirely to Malek's phenomenal performance.

A wonderful movie with a nice clear story, good good guys, bad bad guys, rather special effects . . . really, every department is on top form here.

Singer and McQuarrie expertly sustain a rich and tantalising conceit, keeping the reader guessing to a superb climax – and beyond.

Screenwriter, Christopher McQuarrie and director Bryan Singer have done a terrific job of resurrecting the Seventies style of war film spiced up with the benefits of modern editing and special effects.

Without the all-star cast, it's easy to imagine X-Men: Apocalypse as a dismal failure, but the somewhat nonsensical script is rescued by the performances.

I'm afraid this can't leap buildings in a single bound, no matter what the hype says.

What's good about director Bryan Singer's approach is that he respects the material and so do the actors. There is not a whiff of parody.

What makes this film so enjoyable is the chemistry that holds its ensemble together.