Danny Boyle directs with the right balance of tension and wit, never forgetting that violence begets violence as one thing leads to another.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Danny Boyle directs with the right balance of tension and wit, never forgetting that violence begets violence as one thing leads to another.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

It becomes quite grim and, although by no means perfect, uses the genre expectations to con the audience as well.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Scott is out to blast fresh air through the fusty drawing rooms of costume drama.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Scott is out to blast fresh air through the fusty drawing rooms of costume drama.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Disbelief is suspended by a thread so fine it is in danger of snapping almost constantly.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Disbelief is suspended by a thread so fine it is in danger of snapping almost constantly.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

This is a film full of notions about the way dreams shape our personal stories as much as being shaped by them.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This is a film full of notions about the way dreams shape our personal stories as much as being shaped by them.

~ Jennie Kermode -

By the standards of television drama Messiah is quite a stylish and lavish - if very much by the numbers - production.

~ Keith Hennessey Brown -

Excruciating first date dialogue

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Excruciating first date dialogue

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Owen is fine when looking moody, but not so good when given dialogue - it seems too staged, too deliberate.

~ Trinity -

Owen is fine when looking moody, but not so good when given dialogue - it seems too staged, too deliberate.

~ Trinity -

Benedict Cumberbatch lends this cruel, ancient dragon all the gravitas and otherworldliness that Sean Connery utterly failed to in Dragonheart.

~ Max Crawford -

Benedict Cumberbatch lends this cruel, ancient dragon all the gravitas and otherworldliness that Sean Connery utterly failed to in Dragonheart.

~ Max Crawford -

The pacing is agonisingly ponderous: in the screening I attended two ents got up and left.

~ Max Crawford -

The pacing is agonisingly ponderous: in the screening I attended two ents got up and left.

~ Max Crawford -

Scenes hold so long, you wonder whether the director is out to lunch.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Scenes hold so long, you wonder whether the director is out to lunch.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

One can't help but be swept up in the magnificence of it all.

~ Tony Sullivan -

One can't help but be swept up in the magnificence of it all.

~ Tony Sullivan -

A fluffy and charming confection that has an enticing exterior without much substance on the inside.

~ Richard Mowe -

A fluffy and charming confection that has an enticing exterior without much substance on the inside.

~ Richard Mowe -