THE BOX 10 OFFICE TOP
(12A)
DAME Emma Thompson delivers one of the most beautifully calibrated, heartrending performances of her career in The Children Act, adapted for the screen by Ian McEwan from his 2014 novel.
Donning the robes of a judge, who tranquilises her emotions when she presides over cases at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, the two-time Oscar winner (15)
SUPERMARKET cashier Audrey Stockton (Mila Kunis) meets Drew Thayer (Justin Theroux) in a bar and sparks fly. Their whirlwind romance ends abruptly with Drew dumping Audrey by text.
She seeks solace in the company of best friend Morgan (Kate McKinnon) who recommends that Audrey cleanse herself of Drew by burning his belongings.
Before the first squirt of lighter fluid, Drew elegantly reveals chinks in her character’s armour as she decides whether a 17-year-old Jehovah’s Witness (Fionn Whitehead) should be forced to accept a blood transfusion.
For the opening hour, Richard Eyre’s courtroom drama is a riveting character study. Once the contentious central case is closed, however, the film unravels in a concluding act devoid of emotional heft. re-establishes contact.
He reveals that he is an undercover CIA operative and had to terminate the relationship with Audrey because the criminal fraternity was prepared to hurt her to get to him.
Audrey is touched until bullets fly and she goes on the run with Morgan and a USB flash drive encrypted with details of a terrorist network’s diabolical plans.
The Spy Who Dumped Me promotes girl power with every predictable twist and turn.
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