The Brits are fully back

Rating: 9/10 (14 March 2006)

Be willing to be confused during the first half of the film, and then watch the characters and story lines come together. Fantastically gifted cast, lots of non-imposing good natured morality, superbly written intricacy, oozing good-natured humor and charm (be quiet, I know this is not technically a sentence). Bill Nighy has all the range in the universe, the child actor Sangster is low key and excellent. Britain is so fully back in the film world, and I hope it goes on to kick California's bottom (I'm from Chicago - 'bottom' is edited for appropriate language). Avoid the film altogether if you are a cynic, cynics would detest it.