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This film has its merits. Stylistic conematogrpahy, interesting set design and costumes, but the 150 minute run time, relative to the pay-off, asks an awful, awful lot of its audience. I don't mind weird. Many of my favourite films are incredibly weird but a story without characters you can care about is a waste of everyone's time. I can't comment on the source novel, but I find the story's premise both cloyingly insistent and thematically vague at the same time. The usually excellent Emma Stone's acting - tipped for an Oscar, no less - is of the kind rightly parodied by Ben Stiller's character in Tropic Thunder all those years ago. I would not have sat through it in the cinema and only for its inclusion in a pre-paid streaming service did I see it all the way to end.