Phil Hoad

Night of the Hunted may fall a bit short of moral substance, but it certainly holds us in its grip.

This pointless, aimless mission is expedited by the usual logic-slips, like inexplicably letting fanatical SS officers escape when you have them at your mercy.

The rangy and trenchant Eckhart does convincingly bring the ruckus in a way that suggests an ageing 007. But if that’s a promising sign for this new phase of his career, he can do better than this dour and charmless parade.

The cranked-up pitchside action is hilarious, like a live feed from inside Cristiano Ronaldo’s head as he replays his own goals reel. . . Translating football into the battle royale format only goes so far, though.

This is a perfectly accurate board-game adaptation insofar as it’s well-packaged, undemanding fun.

Tightly paced and snappily directed, this is decent-quality Chinese screwball, if a touch overlong.

If the film is frustratingly nebulous as its layers of reality intermingle, it is a neonatal nightmare that undoubtedly envelops you in its feelbad embrace.

Sadly, this tonally shaky and borderline-sociopathic outing doesn’t have the class or skill to be part of the much-needed renaissance for the genre.

It may think it is tilting at the dream factory, but Somnium simply feels tired.

If this hymn to love’s persistence wobbles occasionally, it’s good to see an independent British film going for broke.

Amid this farrago, the political critique comes over more like accidental backspatter than meaningful statement.

Doeren clearly has a feel for the bear necessities, but the human interest hardly gets its boots on.

With an unerring but sardonic sense of how death presses in on us all, this is a promisingly pungent debut from Mitchell.

Where it’s lacking in psychological bite, Wardriver’s demi-monde is convincingly venal in general terms. Thomas lends it enough fast-driving attack and romanticised ferment that it might just pass in the darkness for a Michael Mann film.

Here is a visually epic and surprisingly positive documentary about a maligned subculture: football ultras.