“Jaakko is played by Petri Poikolainen, who gives a resourceful, smart, well-rounded performance, dipping into reserves of vulnerability and desperation during the film’s scariest scenes, during which the limitations of his ‘fuck you’ persona are tested.”

“Instead of conveying his brokenness through a physical transformation, Isaac simply plays that absence, turning the dial way down on his natural charisma, and projecting the aura of a dulled piece of matte-surface surgical steel, which exists, functional and stark, but does not sparkle or shine or smoulder.”

“Madeleine Collins is a slippery little masterclass in performance, which perhaps gets away from itself slightly in the third act, but offers nothing but tightly-wound intrigue in the first, and a well-handled, cathartic reveal in the second.”

“The Lost Daughter has at its heart one of the most interesting actors currently working. Nobody people-watches like Olivia Colman.”

“Dune never breaks the tension with a smart aleck remark. As a sand-worm rampages towards a mining vessel, you will hear someone say, ‘It’s a big one,’ but you will not hear someone else reply, ‘Hey, size ain’t everything!’”

“At once a work of great sensitivity and high, hilarious camp, less interested in identifying the ‘real’ Diana than in building a living, breathing character in the blank space between costume, iconography and everything we’ve always speculated and assumed about her suffering.”

“Top honours must go to Penélope Cruz, on very watchable form as a warm and likeable woman who makes some rather outrageous choices…”