Music’s top earners 2018

relieved that the old timer is always one step ahead of the police.

‘I’m sorry you didn’t catch him,’ commiserates John’s wife Maureen (Tika Sumpter).

‘I’m not,’ he responds tenderly. The Old Man and the Gun is the cinematic equivalent of a warm hug: comforting, heartfelt and undeniably pleasurable in the moment.

Lowery’s script stages a couple of tense robberies with aplomb but characterisation always takes priority, and there is a lovely scene of verbal to-and-fro between Forrest and John in the corridor of a roadside diner.

Redford remind us why he has been setting hearts aflutter on screen for more than 55 years and Affleck is an appealing sparring partner in a game of cat and mouse where everyone, including us, wins.

RATING: 7/10 U2 top Forbes’ 2018 music rich list having scored €118 million (€104m) in pre-tax earnings, thanks lagely to their Joshua Tree Tour and also sales of the album ‘Songs of Experience’. Here’s the top ten: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

10 – $118 million

– $115.5 million – $110 million – $100 million – $83 million – $80 million – $76.5 million

– $71 million – $68 million – $64 million