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Aquaman is a far from bad way to pass a couple of hours at the cinema

What I most noted the return of was not kings but pacing issues.

If it sometimes feels like Wan's falling back on the tricks of the trade, he's also often able to spin something unexpected out of the familiar.

Death Sentence is a gritty throwback to the films of the Seventies like Death Wish, and it has you rooting all the way for this ordinary man to dish out his own brand of justice.

What really lifts this, beyond its smart scripting and clever shifts of mood, is its remarkable beauty.

Dropping the demonic angle in favour of a more clichéd serial killer back-story proves a major mistake – it scuppers all ambiguity and feels like a step back from the bedlam of the original.

Just enough is revealed to keep you glued while shocking, sucker-punches blindside you at all the right moments.