8.5
If the story is simple enough, it is the acting that lifts it out of the ordinary.
Set against the grit of post-war Wales, MR. BURTON is the extraordinary true story of a working-class boy destined for greatness and the teacher who saw it first. When Philip Burton, a
Emily Blunt and Chaske Spencer star in this limited series about the American West from Hugo Blick (The Honorable Woman), with Ciarán Hinds, Rafe Spall, Toby Jones, Stephen Rea and
Sam Mendes writes and directs this tribute to cinema (biographical, no doubt, though it's interesting that Mendes cracked showbiz via theatre) starring Olivia Colman, Toby Jones, Micheal Ward and Colin
If you're a tragic for the genre, The Snowman will scratch your itch.