Hoping for a golden trio of festival circuit hits following Election and About Schmidt, Alexander Payne brings us his third magnum opus about the sense of loss and failure inherent in middle age and the elderly.

But where every frame is beautiful, they’re not perfect to the extent they were in Zodiac — still Fincher’s Citizen Kane. It’s a genuine pleasure to see a movie with nice colours, soft edges and a slow-burn sensibility in the camerawork and cinematography.

It’s a commanding return to a genre Reeves has always had success in. “I haven’t done that many action films,” he says, before admitting to a list of some of the most impactful action films in cinema, from Point Break and Speed to The Matrix.