Tuppence Middleton

The Current War is consistently interesting and superbly acted, but the direction is often distracting

Starting with a bang and ending with a fairly muted whimper, if you experience a sense of déjà vu akin to its heroine while viewing Iain Softley’s new film Trap...

Simon (McAvoy) works for an art auction house. But he has massive gambling debts. So he becomes the inside man for a gang of art theives, headed by Franck (Cassel).

Cleanskin is a well-made action thriller with a little too much flab. In attempting to give the lead characters some depth and address serious issues about terrorism in the UK...

Cleanskin is a well-made action thriller with a little too much flab. In attempting to give the lead characters some depth and address serious issues about terrorism in the UK...

This movie won the Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature Film at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival. I guess there wasn't much competition.

The film opens at the funeral of overweight, asthmatic teenager Darren Mullett, who committed suicide after suffering brutal and sustained bullying at the hands of the in-crowd.