The year in review: ‘How should we rate 2008?’ by | Prospect Magazine January 2009 issue 154

Overrated Happy-Go-Lucky by Mike Leigh. This multiple-award winning film left me not just cold, but irritated. The central character Poppy (Sally Hawkins) was insufferably annoying and the whole film was infused with cod psychology. A little Freud is a dangerous thing.

Amen. The adulation this man gets from most commentators is dumbfounding. It’s good to see an exception.