If, as he has indicated, this is Phoenix’s last movie before he becomes a slightly weird rap singer and even weirder talk show guest, he’s certainly going out with a bang in this neatly-observed romantic drama set in New York.

When, in a horror film, somebody warns the characters not to leave the main road you know, sure as shootin', that that's exactly what they're going to do. Some people, eh?

If you were a young man in the Peace Corps assigned to Afghanistan under the Taliban, what would you miss most? Razor blades? Hardly. Music? Maybe for some. The answer is pretty obvious. Movies. Could you do without seeing a single film for 24 months? I doubt it. You’d probably come back in a straitjacket, screaming in agony.