Don't Breathe

Wait until daylight plays with horror tropes, bringing the blindness of the lambs to the person under the stairs. Flash-forward lets audience see too much. Underwhelming protagonists are easily overpowered by well-conceived bad guy’s oddly empathetic agenda, not to mention the strength that Lang brings to his alarmingly well-envisioned basterd.

Alice Through the Looking Glass

Bobin mirrors Burton to admirable effect. Alice navigates a visually astounding narrative maze on foolhardy Adventure through Underland, finding herself lost in the machines and machinations of a monarchy of Miserables. Depp phones it in, but it’s still a call worth answering, especially as writers sing Carrols of frabjous wordplay.

Legend

Hardy does double-tom to deliver kray-kray performance in an otherwise bland London crime epic. Goodblokes feels like a poor Guy Richie piece as it walks a straight line from start to finish with the only arc provided by love story which is almost as forced and underwhelming as Browning’s voiceover.