“Amadeus simultaneously comments on and contributes towards the ‘nature’ of its subject, and the wider obsession of “all the mediocrities in the world” with pulling ‘extraordinary’ figures off their historical pedestals.”

“Vice yanks the mask of boring pen-pusher from Vice President Dick Cheney with the clumsy enthusiasm traditionally accorded to Scooby Doo villains.”

“In a premise not unlike a magical, Merrie Olde Englande version of Borat 2, Tristan decides to to haul his comely female cargo into town to barter the affections of his petulant blond target.”

Bird Box and A Quiet Place are not the only two oddly similar films to be released in the same year. Cast your minds back to Friends with Benefits and No Strings Attached (2011), A Bugs Life and Antz (1998), or White House Down and Olympus Has Fallen (2013). Surely no coincidence? In fact, there’s a name for this Hollywood phenomenon where two separate production companies release almost identical films within the same year: ‘twin films’.

“The 110 minute-deluge of non-stop stimulation lurches constantly between registers: hallucinatory sights and sounds, grotesquerie, extremes of acting style. Like a fairground ride, the disorientation is part of the fun, but also an involuntary, physical experience.”

“With its blend of outdoorsy antics and simpering sentimentality, Jojo Rabbit proffers a twee vision of everyday Nazism Germany that somehow centres on the 'good ones’.”