Dickens gets the diversity treatment

Director Armando Iannucci plays enjoyably fast and loose with Dickens’s novel – combining characters here, rejigging the plot there and omitting some sadnesses altogether. But the result is an energetic, intelligent and touchingly good-humoured triumph with Dev Patel leading an excellent, ethnically diverse cast that includes Peter Capaldi, Hugh Laurie, Benedict Wong and Rosalind Eleazar. Sky Store/ Rakuten, available from Saturday