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OH DEAR, oh dear. The worst thing about the near-complete failure of screenwriter Diablo Cody’s follow- up to the sublime Junois that it gives her detractors – small in number, but vociferous – ammunition for a counter- insurgency. See? All she does is knock together smart-Alec aphorisms into a rude, disorganised stream. We told you she was a fraud.

Well, no. Junohad a beautiful, sleek shape and Jennifer’s Bodycertainly aims to do more than raise repeated snarky sniggers. Tipping its hat to Carrie, the film, directed without distinction by Girlfight’s Karyn Kusama, seeks to bring the language of horror to the traditional high school flick.