Big Eyes (2014)

FILM4, 4.40PM ★★★

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