Okay, so reviews for this were vaguely but not wildly positive; plus, I’d read the comic and not been greatly impressed by it. But for whatever reason, I thought the movie was better than the comic, and extremely good. Weirdly, it’s highly reminiscent of Jo Walton’s Farthing, what with the detective fascism thing. Though this has a more hopeful ending (or, at least, is further in down a road that Farthing is just starting on).

Also, I think Natalie Portman is a better actress than she gets credit for.