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Every scene is brilliantly realised and inhabited by unforgettable characters.

With dazzling visual effects and stunning sets, Brazil is a film that you should see on the biggest screen possible.

The true fault lies with the script, which brings no life to the real, or indeed fantasy, characters.

Gilliam uses voice over (too much?) to give a taste of the Hunter S style and help explain what on earth is going on.

If the story of a stranger arriving to try and save a beautiful young woman sounds like a familiar fairytale, beware - this is Gilliam's work after all, and nothing is quite as it seems.

Gilliam's monster, when we finally see it, is so hideous a thing that we can only be grateful this film is played for laughs.

Gilliam’s script cannot quite stand the excesses of his own imagination.

Overall, this is a silly romp through some of the best legends medieval Britain has to offer, intercut with some fabulously surreal animation.

Tideland is simply magnificent. It's bleak and creepy, but at the same time charming, wide-eyed and visionary.

Though it's certainly a powerful piece of work, it doesn't always seem sure of its own convictions.

The Zero Theorem is a messy mélange of broad pratfalls, challenged idealism, dark satire, and expansive, indeed cosmic allegory - but it also .cannot escape being seen as a kind of Brazil vers. 2.0.