J T.

Has pretensions of being a stylish thriller but is repetitive and gets sillier as it goes along.

The first hour and half is pretty good, it’s fast, glossy, well directed, but then it gets messy... and LONG. I liked Pattinson as Batman but the problem for me was that his nemesis, The Riddler, was not clearly defined, so I didn’t really care about the story and by the two hour mark I was looking at my watch with still almost an hour to go. It’s not a terrible movie but nowhere near as good as some of the previous Batman movies.

Unrelenting misery. Could only last an hour. This was not a movie with light and shade, rather one of shade and darker shade.

I thought this was much better than the reviews on here made out, it’s no Citizen Kane but it is a good little creepy thriller that is well acted and just different enough to make it interesting.

A devastating depiction of greed and war. One of the best films you’ll see... ever.

This film totally wastes the first 45 minutes of screen time, only coming to life in the second half. But its main problem is that there’s no clear nemesis other than the house, which is just too vague to be truly scary. My son (17) and I actually laughed a few times because we couldn’t work out what we were meant to be scared of!

Oh dear God, if I do you one favour this year it's to spare you the agony of this film. Maid Marion, whilst aesthetically pleasing, couldn't decide on an LA accent or an Irish one, as apparently an English accent never occurred to anyone working on the film. The direction is average (bad performances throughout) and the script clunky; the one redeeming feature was Ben Mendelsohn as the Sheriff of Nottingham - without him I would've walked by the half way mark.