David Yates movie gives us a believable reason to revisit the tale of the man raised by apes.

Gary Ross’s film does well to juxtapose telling of Knight’s story with the trial his mixed-race descendant is fighting in the same state “85 years later”.

Some of the fights are impressive, most of the destruction routine and a large part of the dialogue perfunctory.

That nun/nut keeps popping up at various times, and The Conjuring 2 does an unsatisfying work of tying it up with the rest of the story.

Both Russell Crowe as the washed-up, rough-edged bouncer-on-hire Healy, and Ryan Gosling as the cynical, heavy-drinking private investigator March are good and cleverly cast.

In this delicately crafted story of life, marriage, everyday violence — and kindness — writer-director Asghar Farhadi proves once again that there are few filmmakers like him in turning the camera inwards.

You realise that the only reason Through the Looking Glass is different from its many special-effect summer counterparts is its fascinating characters sprung from the book.

Continuing with the strength of this franchise, Apocalypse ensures each of the mutant characters gets a solemn, credible background.

This film is more content playing on its old, successful themes, including a Windex spray, and even inveigles a wedding between Toula’s still-squabbling parents under the flimsiest of pretexts to justify the title.

Julia Roberts is especially good as her role almost entirely involves emoting through her voice, but even George Clooney nicely moderates his charisma to appear desperate and downright unlikable in parts.