Adrift (2018)

We flash backwards and forwards between Tami Oldham's life before and after a significant life event, revealed eventually as a period of 42 days adrift at sea following a storm that destroys her boat and injures her crewmate, Richard Sharp, but on either side of that narrative pivot point the focus of this true account is Tami's relationship with Richard - not the disaster - so, with the exception of the big disaster "reveal", the movie amounts to scenes of cream being applied to sunburn, rations of peanut butter being relished, and poor Tami rolling her eyes deliriously about in her head.

★★☆☆☆

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My Cousin Rachel (2017)

The trouble with Daphne du Maurier's My Cousin Rachel, whether this very beautifully photographed and finely acted new version, the 1952 Olivia de Havilland version, or any version at all is that viewers are supposed to question the motivations of a foreign woman and ask themselves whether she is a loose opportunist, while extending sympathy towards an immature, impestuous privacy invader, domestic abuser and effective murderer.

★★★☆☆

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