The Spy Who Dumped Me (15) ***
Dir: Susanna Fogel
With: Mila Kunis, Kate McKinnon
Runtime: 117 minutes
SCOTS Outlander star Sam Heughan is used to finding himself in odd spots, but playing an English MI6 agent in a buddy feminist spy caper has to be one of his stranger gigs. Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon are the best friends who land themselves in trouble abroad. McKinnon is something of an acquired taste but comes right in the end – much like this likeably daft comedy.
Alpha (12A) **
Dir: Albert Hughes
With: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Natassia Malthe
Runtime: 96 minutes
WELCOME to prehistoric times, when mammoths, sabre toothed tigers and wolves competed with man for food. Young Keda (Kodi Smit-McPhee) looks like he might become a wolf’s lunch but fate has something else in mind. The hunting scenes will be too much for younger cinemagoers, ditto the subtitles.
The Children Act (12A) **
Dir: Richard Eyre
With: Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci
Runtime 105 minutes
IAN McEwan’s novel about a High Court judge (Emma Thompson) and the moral tangles she must unravel lands on the screen with a dull thud. Thompson and Stanley Tucci are fine but wasted as the couple under strain. It is telling that the most interesting thing on screen during this slow, stagey drama is the Mayes’ fabulous flat in Gray’s Inn Square.
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