Big Eyes (2014)

FILM4, 9.00PM ★★★

 Amy Adams is ideally cast as the browbeaten artist Margaret Keane who, for eight years, churned out iconic, highly sought after paintings, only for her con artist husband (Christoph Waltz) to take all the credit. Tim Burton’s take on this curious real-life tale of curdled suburbia sadly lacks Adams’s subtlety: even the usually restrained Waltz is caught up in the blunt, overly stylised kookiness.