Palmer Tony

Beyond praise. Having worked with the 'real' Bernstein many times, I forgot completely that this was not him. Bradley Cooper is astonishing, and Carey Mulligan is incredible. She lights up every frame with true magic. Oscars all round.

Read Roger Ebert's review. Absolutely spot on. Both Craig and Paltrow prove they were once great actors, before other silliness-es took over.. Don;t shoot the composer (of the film music); just tell him less is always more.

Just brilliant. And Jessie Buckley is a blazing star.

This is a truly humbling experience, especially for those of us lucky enough not have got caught in the unspeakable - and unforgivable - downward spiral of zero hours contracts and all the lies surrounding this iniquitous way of life. Who else but Ken Loach is spelling this out with such unmistakable clarity and passion? Give him an OM or put him in the House of Lords where he would have an even wider public platform. He is far more worthy of both than many, if not most, of those strutting their stuff there.

Brilliant. But two important points. First, as a documentary it is not 'presenter lead', that appalling disease which blights more or less every so-called documentary presently on broadcast television. Second, it highlights the abdication by the BBC, among the rest, of the long-form serious personal film, particularly of documentaries. With the single exception of the Storyville strand, the BBC and its moronic commissioners and schedulers don't even begin to understand that this was once the lifeblood of a great television company such as the BBC, which should be ashamed of itself but isn't of course, it being now arrogance personified. The only thing I missed and longed for in this remarkable film - let's not call it a 'documentary'; it's a film and deserves to be treated as such - was the slight of Lucy Worsley and her silly grin on the prow of the boat as it ploughed through the terrifying southern ocean, only to be swept into oblivion by the next mountainous wave. Ah well. You can't have everything, but what we have is a treasure, so thank you to everyone who laboured long and hard to get it made - with no help from the BBC !!!

Brilliant. No English director could have dome anything in the same league Stop the whingeing. Utterly absorbing. All the acting is beyond praise, but Lea Sédoux is off the scale. Just give her the Oscar now and save us all a lot of garbage. And, finally, what can I say about Alexandre Desplat? His score is perfect, perfect, perfect. So just stop the whingeing and be grateful that such film making exists - in spite of the moronic distributors just showing it, once a day, in just one cinema in the whole of London. Shame on them. And damnation.

Reminded me of the very best version of the Swedish Wallander - the one with Krister Henricksson, not that dreadful copycat version with Kenneth Branagh. Great acting, great drama, great stories, great to loo at. A powerful study of broken people. Why or why cannot British television produce anything comparable in style, in mood or in sheer class?

Ridiculous