The Guardian

Bar-Lev’s film balances compassion for the surviving relatives of those who lose their lives with a clear-eyed view of the realities of nature. It’s a salutary lesson in the climate-change era, when a small percentage of humanity is taking a risky gamble, betting that human ingenuity will win out against physics.

Extra Geography is an extra treat in the movie world’s school timetable.

What emerges is Rushdie’s courage and his remarkably level-headed, calm and unafraid writerly voice insisting on the primacy of literature, freedom of expression and the life of the imagination.

After a sensational opening sequence, the film gradually unwinds, and the entirety of the third act disintegrates into a shower of small substandard plot points that don’t convince.

There is something glib and overblown here. This film finds itself in a postmodern hole. And what do you do when you’re in a hole?

In the tradition of its emotionally involving predecessor, Godzilla Minus Zero grapples more directly with humans’ attempts to assert some control over forces that initially seem impossible to harness.

Forgotten Island is over-controlled and over-determined, a movie that never, or hardly ever, takes its pedal from the metal, never takes a breath or a moment to let its characters come to life. At times it seems to be aping the world of Japanese anime, but without its sense of character or capacity for calm.

The end result is a profoundly moving work, one that will resonate with anyone who is a parent or close to a troubled kid, but one that has so much more about the making of art, its joys and its dishonesties. It lingers in the mind long after the tears have dried.

Perhaps the truth is that Heretic was, like Boorman’s sci-fi adventure Zardoz with Sean Connery in the crazy red mankini: weird, surreal, challenging, a shapeshifting creature vulnerable to mockery, at once monstrous and terribly fragile.

The Love Hypothesis demonstrates that you can have all the right ingredients for a romcom, but movie magic has never been a science.