Coraline

No, it's not a hilarious new comedy. It's no cheery sing-song experience either. The new Tim Burton film is a middle sitter between puzzling adventure and dark, twisted, kiddy animation. A bit like a dream you once had in which you were a magical world, and you were being constantly visited by a girl in a little coat, again and again until your secrets were revealed and the whole thing turned into a perilous little mystery, and even a quest to find some different-coloured balls.

Yes. Just like that. But on a screen.

Anyway, the film's a experience. An unsettling one, but a charming and fulfilling one none-the-less.