Animal Farm

While it may struggle to satisfy diehard Orwell purists, the film still takes a political stance and delivers an emphatic message celebrating equality and the power of the collective – albeit one which permits us a little more hope than was present in Orwell’s 1945 novella.

The message feels muddled amid all the pratfalls and fart jokes.

The bizarre achievement of this new film is to make us feel trapped and punished through every phase of the story.