Film: Running riot with a shoot-to-thrill policy

Wheatley crafts an atmosphere of crackling tension and intimate suspense

Armie Hammer, Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy, Sam Riley and Michael Smiley in Free Fire

Cinema

Free Fire: Directed by Ben Wheatley, Nationwide, 18,Rating:***

Graduation: Directed by Cristian Mungiu, Selected, 15A,Rating:****

Ben Wheatley’s rise as one of Britain’s most innovative and prolific filmmakers continues apace with this uproarious bullet ballet about a weapons deal gone wrong. His first film set in the US, but his second following High Rise to take place in the bell-bottomed, sideburned 1970s, Free Fire takes a simple premise and turns it into a ...