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Ready Player One (12)

Having never read Ernest Cline’s award-winning source material, I went into Steven Spielberg’s latest blockbuster totally blind — and was all the better for it with several surprises taking me on a gripping adventure.

Tye Sheridan handles his biggest role to date with great aplomb and shares cracking chemistry with Olivia Cooke.

The breathless visuals will leave you exhilarated and there’s so much filling every frame it’s impossible to take it all in on a single viewing. Fist-thumping eighties tunes create a sensational soundtrack packed with nostalgia.

What Ready Player One lacks, though, is genuinely chilling villainy — Ben Mendelsohn’s subdued CEO doesn’t quite cut it.