I kept thinking in clichés watching this: Who pays the piper. It’s a dog eat dog world. Pressure cooker of fear. Pillaging by the wealthy. Worshiping greed. A cliché is a well-worn piece of rhetoric, like an old music hall joke that everyone knows the punch line and laughs in advance. So Moore went through his repertoire. We all know its going to be ‘Roger and Me’(1989) about his attempt to interview the CEO of General Motors about job losses in...

Kristin Scott Thomas plays a woman who is taken into her sister’s home after spending 15 years in prison. I missed the start of this. Some films are like spending 15 years in prison, so I wasn’t particularly worried. By the time I’d joined the action her sister, who plays a university lecturer was joking and flirting with another middle class tweed jacketeer while KST stood and furtively smoked a cigarette. There are worse things that watching...