Is not the "feel good film of the year" or whatever it is they are claiming it to be on the posters. It is much better than that: a finely crafted fable (to quote Mark Kermode), with fantastic acting, sounds and visuals. And with subject matter including poverty, theft, prostitution, torture and murder, it is a lot darker than the tag line suggests.
It deserves all the accolades it is getting at the moment, and is miles better than 'No Country for Old Men' and 'There Will Be Blood" that somehow managed to win Oscars last year, in this humble critic's opinion...
