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Rating: 5/10 (2 July 2019)

The production company clearly spent a young fortune on PR for this title and if the flacks got it ride and drag the punters in the movie will easily make its neg cost back.Whilst it managed to keep my mind off Brexit and my dinner plans for the evening throughout the running time I had completely forgotten it by the time I reached the foyer on the way out. Part of the problem is that in my salad days I was frightened by screenwriters like Terence Rattigan and directors like Puffin Asquith who, had they turned out nothing more than The Way To The Stars and The Browning Version would have more than secured a lifetime pass to the Pantheon and these Poster boys for the luvvies Curtis and Boyle, who struggle to achieve mediocrity just aren't in the same league albeit as crowd-pleasers they're right up there with The Simpsons and Kermit the frog. This is a thinly-veiled rip-off of the tv sitcom Goodnight, Sweetheart, in which time-traveller Nicholas Lyndhurst passes off Beatles song as his own work and that's the story from soup to nuts. The best thing about it by a country mile is Lily James who, unlike the rest of the cast, is completely unselfconscious and doesn't walk through the film clearly in awe of being in this season's feelgood triumph. Go see it, though. You will anyway.