Swinton shines in a harrowing tour de force

We Need To Talk About Kevin Directed by Lynne Ramsay Selected cinemas, cert 16 Rating: **** Contagion Directed by Steven Soderbergh Nationwide, cert 12A Rating: *** After almost a decade

Above: Tilda Swinton and Jasper Newell in We Need To Talk About Kevin

We Need To Talk About Kevin

Directed by Lynne Ramsay

Selected cinemas, cert 16

Rating: ****

Contagion

Directed by Steven Soderbergh

Nationwide, cert 12A

Rating: ***

After almost a decade of silence, Scottish director Lynne Ramsay is back with a bang with an exquisitely-realised adaptation of Lionel Shriver's best-selling novel We Need To Talk About Kevin, the story of a mother who must deal with the aftermath of the massacre perpetrated by her ...