Okja 15 cert, 120 min

Dir Bong Joon Ho Starring Tilda Swinton, An Seo Hyun, Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano, Shirley Henderson, Daniel Henshall, Devon Bostick

A diverting, intermittently clever, sometimes awkward blend of find-the-missing-pet adventure and anti-meat satire, this comes from the pen of Jon Ronson (a vegetarian with a dark sense of humour) and the fervid brain of Korean director Bong Joon Ho.

A goofy prologue, delivered to us by front-of-house star Tilda Swinton as agrochemical CEO Lucy Mirando, explains how her company is aiming to combat global hunger: they have reared 26 “superpigs” and sent them around the world, eventually to spearhead a revolution in meat production.

It’s a daffy concept, wobbling on the edge of facile, but Bong has a good track record for cooking up such gonzo conceits and spinning them off in productive, tonally brave directions. Okja is available on Netflix, and in selected cinemas. TR