John Maguire on film: Bear with it, tale of a drugged-up animal is based on a true story

This shouldn’t take long. Cocaine Bear is about an enormous American black bear who ingests a hillock of cocaine and runs amok. By the time you get to that full stop, you should know if this is the kind of film you would buy a ticket to see. There’s little in the way of middle ground.

Director Elizabeth Banks’s gory gonzo horror comedy does benefit from knowing its business, and goes about it with considerable ...