The people that brought you the godawful Paranormal Activity series dropped this vastly superior, Scott Derrickson, directed chiller. I'm always a sucker for Ethan Hawke anyway but this is a far more atmospheric work with a terrifying soundtrack.

David O. Russell was on an incredible run by Silver Linings, backed by his own great writing and a stellar cast.

This is definitely an era where I seemed to hand out 8/10's like candy because there are just to many glaringly awful directorial choices (John Goodman, I'm looking at you) for that to be true. A masterclass of acting from Denzel Washington and a terrific plane sequence make it worth wading through the occasional muck.

The middle two thirds of this Tarrantino western are flat out classic, sadly the opening twenty and especially the dire comic book final quarter, where Jamie Foxx tanks the film in comic book madness, undercut a near masterpiece.

This fascinating and original southern eco-drama from writer-director, Benh Zeitlin, deserved the mark it made.