CATHERINE STEEL relishes a compelling novel about Augustus’s right hand man, but misses the politics, the cultural shifts, and more detail about his restoration of Rome
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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.
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