Patrick Cremona

Nothing about Mayday seeks to reinvent the wheel, but the sense that some thought and invention has gone into both the characters and the set pieces means it soars above most entries in a streaming climate that can often feel soulless. This is an eminently watchable diversion.

Crucially, Red Rooms also avoids steering into exploitation territory - all the more effective for its refusal to show the heinous acts of violence outright.

It all adds up to a moving, charming, well-performed summer film told with an commendably light touch – a far cry better than a more traditional biographical film about Bourdain's life and career might have been.

Though Vaniček directs the gruesome shenanigans with plenty of panache, displaying a similar command of inventive, hyperactive camerawork as franchise originator Raimi, the constant barrage of all-out horror can have a numbing effect that might have been avoided with more considered pacing – especially given the film runs longer than any previous entry in the Evil Dead canon.

Disclosure Day is an imperfect film, then, but it is also one with no shortage of great moments and the undeniable stamp of the great Steven Spielberg. And if that doesn’t make a summer blockbuster worth checking out, then frankly what does?

A more ambitious and genuinely subversive film would have dug a little deeper into this muddy ground. As it is, Savage House is an amusing diversion powered by a pair of devilishly game performances.

It's all richly compelling stuff – a culture war drama that's provocative without being sensationalist.

The result is something that – for better and worse – presents Star Wars at its most light, pulpy and throwaway. It’s the sort of engaging action-adventure story that will play best with younger audiences and those in search of a small dose of escapism, while lacking the grandeur and scale of the very best Star Wars tales.

Hope is most certainly a film that will divide viewers, and it’s not especially difficult to find faults – including with some of its baffling hints at a deeper mythology. But as a crazy action spectacle – best enjoyed with an engaged audience – the sheer enjoyable thrill of it all is impossible to deny.

Teller and Driver really are terrific – the latter especially great when we discover both the extent of his force and the limits of his bravado. And so even with those aforementioned flaws, there's plenty here to savour, and more than enough for Gray's relatively small but extremely devoted band of die-hards to celebrate.