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Stills of Tom Hardy pursing his lips at a puppy might have made Twitter melt, but The Drop did well to change its title from Animal Rescue . This is no cutesy romcom or inspirational adventure but rather a downbeat, character-driven crime drama set in a squalid neighbourhood of Brooklyn. …

Marking the English-language debut of Niels Arden Oplev (the original The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo ), Dead Man Down is, on the surface, a fairly standard revenge thriller; a sort of brooding, steel-gray Death Wish with Colin Farrell as a good-looking Charles Bronson stand-in. However, from the moment it …