Movie reviews: Hail, Caesar!, Truth, The Other Side of the Door

Hail, Caesar! 4/5

Set in 1951, the Coen Brothers’ Hail, Caesar! (12A) centres on Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin), a fixer for Capitol Pictures who spends much of his time getting his studio’s stars out of trouble.

Baird Whitlock (George Clooney) gets kidnapped by Communist screenwriters whilst starring in the swords-and-sandals epic that gives this film its name; director Laurence Laurentz (Ralph Fiennes) struggles to cope when cowboy Hobie Doyle (Alden Ehrenich) is shoehorned into his tasteful drawing-room drama; the ostensibly squeaky-clean actress DeeAnna Moran (Scarlett Johansson) finds herself pregnant while momentarily between husbands.