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The characters could be stereotypes, but as imagined by Rowling, adapted and directed by Tom Edge and Sue Tully, and definitively portrayed by Burke and Grainger, they’re fully dimensional.
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It all galloped along with gusto and noir-ish charm. Cormoran Strike might not be Britain’s Favourite Detective yet but he could enter the frame in future.
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With all the freighted backstory and psychic wounds, it’s hard for the sexy protagonists, as for us, to care about the MacGuffin.
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The problem is the dominance of the leads, who are so much more developed and interesting than the other characters that they warp everything around them, two stars surrounded by little planets. Grainger and Burke have grown elegantly into the roles.
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It was all over the place, a meandering, cliché-ridden muddle that sacrificed plot for the protagonists’ thwarted love story. If you had watched it for the first time last night you wouldn’t have had a clue what was going on.