“In true Allen form, he is in the film, though not literally; Vicky has many of the Allen quirks, each garnished with his incisive wit and crippling neurosis.”

“Truly a film for 2020: this mismanaged melodrama spends too long stuck in a house and achieving very little.”

“It’s a film that promotes the melancholy nobility of individualism, even when it’s frowned upon.”

“It’s like catching up with the self-centred, needy male protagonist of a Woody Allen film forty years down the line- from the daughter’s point of view.”

“In some sense, the genius of Donnie Darko doesn’t have anything to do with Frank’s apocalyptic insights and Donnie's tumultuous journey to finding the truth about his psychosis. It’s the surrounding distractions.”

“Between director Todd Phillips’ self-satisfied, pseudo-intellectual musings on the profundity of ‘happy vs sad', and the feverish, frenzied acclaim that the film was released to, I’ve found it hard to reconcile my own mixed response with its public reception.”

“Watching the story unfold is simply extraordinarily fun, a word that I rarely use to describe watching any film.”

“Fincher directs with a pervading sense of humour that accentuates the distinctly human darkness that lies behind much of what the film says about life, love, marriage and truth.”