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Directed by Spike Jonze. Starring Max Records, Catherine Keener, Mark Ruffalo, voices of James Gandolfini, Chris Cooper, Catherine O’Hara, Forest Whitaker, Paul Dano, Lauren Ambrose. PG cert, gen release, 101 min

Spike Jonze’s long-awaited film is a beautifully shot, hip-to-a-fault Freudian fantasy, but it will put most kids to sleep, writes DONALD CLARKE