Wonderfully understated and well cast. Nighy plays shy, polite, compassionate characters so well - just as in Pride, your heart really goes out to Mr Williams.

My favourite thing about this film as the moving central metaphor (of not wanting to be the child waiting for their mother to call them in) and its subtle reverberations in other aspects of the film: the playground at the centre of the plot; and the lyrics of The Rowan Tree, itself symbolically linked…

I left the cinema and I've never done that in my life. Awfully misogynist. A woman's body being reductively used to shock and please an intended male audience under the guise of boldy celebrating sexuality. You can feel the director's smugness. Shocking does not automatically = subversive, but nobody told him or the gushing critics who I hope will be embarrassed in years to come. This film sures up rather than shakes up the patriarchal systems it half-heartedly pretends to…

Twee Tree: 'pigs, be free!'

Enjoyable for the subject matter if you're interested in biodiversity and rewilding, for the aesthetics if you thought Babe wasn't sentimental enough. (Not to sneer - I leant into and enjoyed the mawkishness, which were fitting for the project, even shed a tear at the plight of the anthropomorphised harvest mouse journeying in search of a better life.)

I was wary of this film presenting behaviour change by rich landowners as the solution to nature…