There aren’t many actors who command the attention as fiercely as Daniel Day-Lewis and Sean Bean – and if you’d gladly spend two hours watching them have an act-off in a wood cabin, is for you. Playing estranged brothers, their performances are riveting in a film that’s also bold, challenging and puzzling.

It’s the 1980s, and Ray Stoker (Bean) arrives in a remote English forest to confront his hermit brother, Jem (Day-Lewis). He’s bid goodbye to his partner (Samantha Morton) and their boy Brian (Samuel Bottomley) in their suburban home with prayer and a solemn face, almost as if he’s heading off to war. It’s been 20 years since he’s seen Ray, who’s become an angry recluse. Over the ensuing days, Ray attempts to get through to his brother. The details of their shared past in the British mi

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