When Star Trek finally slipped from our screens in 2005, there were some among the 25 million Trekkers worldwide who refused to let the matter lie.
This latest instalment in the Apes franchise, about the preservation of humanity, lacks any genuine human characters.
Russell Crowe’s surly survivalist fails to keep this Biblical blockbuster from Darren Aronofsky afloat.
There are nuggets of honesty amid the gung-ho jingoism in Peter Berg’s starry-eyed war story.
Fernando Meirelles globetrotting ensemble drama is a contrived, bubble-wrapped portrait of the global village.
Visually overwhelming and intellectually exhilarating – just don’t expect to understand Italian politics.