Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Felicity Jones, Armie Hammer, Justin Theroux, Sam Waterston, Kathy Bates, Cailee Spaeny, Jack Reynor, Stephen Root, Chris Mulkey, Gary Werntz, Francis X. McCarthy, Ben Carlson, Ronald Guttman, Wendy Crewson, John Ralston, Arthur Holden, Angela Galuppo, Geordie Johnson, Jeff Lillico, Callum Schoniker, Joe Cobden, Sharon Washington, Holly Gauthier-Frankel, Tom Irwin, Alexandra Petrachuk, Paul Spera, Aiza Ntibarikure, Marina Moreira, Moira Wylie.

If the biopic serves any purpose, it is to serve justice to the characters it is its honour to portray, a quest that for many falls short or has to be suitably arranged so that it spices up what is otherwise the dull and routinely languid.