HOTEL ARTEMIS

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It’s great to see Jodie Foster back on the big screen in this agreeably offbeat, stylish and violent near-future thriller.

After a five-year gap, she returns with a typically sharp-tongued and vulnerable performance, and has been aged to look 20 years older than real life, but there’s no disguising her distinctive voice or talent.

She plays the in-house nurse who operates as a surgeon and concierge with a humorously doleful Dave Bautista as her much put-upon assistant.

Jeff Goldblum and Sofia Boutella offer great value among the collection of assassins, gangsters and bank robbers.

Moodily decorated in a style similar to Keanu Reeves’ John Wick movies, the Artemis is a heavily fortified and hi-tech Los Angeles hospital which caters exclusively to criminals.

But when the strict rules happen to be broken, the fragile truce between the guests shatters. As the violence escalates it becomes clear you can check in to this Californian hotel, but some can never leave.