You spend your life not talking to someone, and then it’s too late,” Blake Morrison ruefully observes at one point in When Did You Last See Your Father? Blake (Colin Firth) is lamenting the mostly superficial communication and the unsettled grievances that have marked his 30-odd year relationship with his physician-father Arthur (Jim Broadbent). Now, in the days before his father’s impending death, Blake hovers at Arthur’s bedside and wanders under a cloud of morose, perplexed resentment through his parents’ large house in the English countryside.

I won’t beat around the bush: The Dark Knight is tremendous, the movie of the summer by a wide margin. It brings a depth to the superhero genre that I wouldn’t have thought possible, at least not from any filmmakers with a profit motive.

You know those YouTube videos where kids dress up and mime to their favorite songs? The ones you would only ever watch all the way through if said kids were blood relatives and you knew their parents were going to want your reaction? Imagine 100 minutes of that and you’ve got Mamma Mia!, the film adaptation of the hit stage production built around songs by ABBA.