The same old story

Premature

Crit

Nothing in this story of young love that we haven't seen before, nothing very dramatic except to the extent that young love is the quintessence of drama, but it all feels fresh, and yes, that's partly because the film is set on and around 145th Street and populated not by the pretty white people we're accustomed to seeing young and in love the screen but by pretty brown people who stake a hungry claim to that screen. Quotidian colorblind heartbreak, cowritten and directed by Rashaad Ernesto Green.

Ordinary Love

Crit

Likewise, nothing here we haven't seen before: cancer as it affects not just one body but the body that is couplehood. And the sharp writing (by Owen McCafferty) is  sometimes too sharp to be contextually believable. But Lesley Manville and Liam Neeson sell it, and raise it. But what kept distracting me was: where in Northern Ireland is this set?

• Trailer for Military Wives: Kristin Scott Thomas and Sharon Horgan, but it looks like a clichéfest.