Movie reviews: Still Alice, Kill the Messenger, Chappie

There’s a creeping kind of horror at the heart of Still Alice (12), although it’s another organ entirely, the brain, that betrays the story’s heroine, Alice (Julianne Moore).

A professor of linguistics, Alice recognises earlier than most might do the tiny amnesias that lead to a diagnosis of a rare form of Alzheimer’s disease. Compounding Alice’s grief is the fact that she’s a carrier of the rogue gene causing the disease, and that she may well have inadvertently sentenced her children — Anna (Kate Bosworth), Tom (Hunter Parrish), and Lydia (Kristen Stewart) — to a lifetime of knowing that they too will have their sense of self stolen away prematurely.