...does an impressive job of simplifying, condensing, and distilling what actually happened into a series of accessible “eureka!” moments...

...one of the more rousingly entertaining crowd-pleasers coming out this holiday...

Moore’s opening line, spoken by Cumberbatch, is, “Are you paying attention?” After a few minutes you’ll realise it’s virtually impossible not to.

Knightley is miles better than she's been in a while; sitting on a shelf rather than centre stage seems to suit her. She has fun with her plummy vowels, even when saying lines like I'm a woman in a man's job.