Last Christmas (2019)

Kate, a Bridget Jones type - read, 'annoying' - portrayed by Emilia Clarke, makes a mess of everything - love, work, and relationships including the relationship she has with her boss (Michelle Yeoh in her now perpetual role as a cantankerous Asian Tiger mom), so it makes sense Kate falls for Henry Golding's character - he's a messily conceived part-Willy Wonka pixie-saviour, part-Mr Darcy romantic stalwart slogging-around-on-a-bicycle - who inspires Kate to fix up her messes before the movie reaches an unlikely Christmas magic fantasy ending - a bit like if Bridget Jones suddenly visited Santa's North Pole workshop - but it's an ending that somehow, through all the mess, manages to be touching.

★★☆☆☆

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Terminator Genisys (2015)

Terminator Genisys (or Terminator 5) has the distinction of being the Terminator movie that starts messing with the established formula: John Connor is the bad guy, the T-800 ages and gets old, characters in the future don't just travel back in time but others in the past flash forward, and while it starts promisingly, pretty quickly it descends into a mess more concerned with perpetuating the franchise than with meeting the expectations of series fans.

★★☆☆☆

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