MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
Victor Frankenstein (12A)
Directed by Paul McGuigan
1/5
HAVING survived everything from close encounters of the witless kind with Abbott and Costello to Mel Brooks and the Carry On crew, Mary Shelley’s classic creation wretchedly meets its mismatch in this putrid, pointless waste of film.
Here Frankenstein’s assistant takes centre stage with a hunchbacked circus clown played by Daniel Radcliffe — bring back Hogwarts, please — saving the life of his beloved trapeze artist Jessica Brown Findlay — bring back Downton Abbey, ditto — when she has a near-fatal fall.
SETH SANDRONSKY recommends a production that looks back at the political Tinseltown in the mid-1970s when US cinema ‘didn’t pander to trends’
ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review The Six Billion Dollar Man, Avatar: Fire and Ash, Goodbye June, and Super Elfkins
ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review The Ceremony, Eddington, The Life of Chuck, and The Thursday Murder Club
MICHAL BONCZA, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review The Other Way Around, Modi: Three Days On The Wing Of Madness, Watch The Skies, and Superman


