Alan Rickman

By the time the mad finale rolls around, the viewer will feel had, for Perfume grasps for significance where there is none to be found.

What a pleasure it is, then, to report that Burton's version tends more to the abattoir than the amusement park...

The bones of the story are comfortingly familiar, the action is rollicking, and the metaphorical moustache-twirling of Alan Rickman's Sheriff of Nottingham is priceless.

Thematically, like any good myth, the Harry Potter story comes full circle, with a heroic homecoming and the promise of more adventures, if only in our imaginations.

Despite admirable work from Whitaker and Winfrey, Lee Daniels' The Butler is nearly crushed by its own symbolic weight and its contrivance of a central character arc from keeping one's head down to learning to stand up.