Based on a 1960s TV show that most of its target audience has never seen and set against the backdrop of the Cold War, a historic period they have little attachment to, Guy Ritchie's The Man from UNCLE is a poorly executed, barely entertaining example of style over substance. CIA agent Napoleon Solo (Henry Cavill) and KGB operative Ilya Kuryakin (Armie Hammer) are forced to work together to find the Nazi rocket scientist father of East German mechanic Gaby Teller (Alicia Vikander) before he can build a bomb for a group of baddies led by blonde femme fatale Victoria Vinciguerra (Elizabeth Debicki).Richie's idea of character development is putting his cast in crisply tailored Mad Men suits and Mary Quant dresses. He is not helped by the appalling lack of chemistry between his two square-jawed leads. Hammer comes across as the miscast lead in a high school play. Cavill is all cowlick and stiff movements, and Vikander just doesn't have the sex appeal to warrant the tension she's supposed to provoke between them. By the time Hugh Grant turns up, you're almost thankful for his usually infuriating mixture of stammering politeness .Ritchie pulls all his visual tricks out of the bag - split screens, montages, slow-motion tumbles in the rain and a slew of exotic European locales. It makes the bludgeoning antics of the seemingly endless Mission Impossible franchise look good and that's no small feat. Opens in cinemas todayAlso openingWHERE HOPE GROWSIt borders on cliché but it's still an affecting drama marked by solid performances and a refreshing restraint in the way it delivers its religious message. - Joe Leydon, variety.comBOYCHOIRA well-acted drama - with Dustin Hoffman - that turns too softhearted at the end. - Neil Genzlinger, nytimes.comPAPER TOWNSPart mystery story, part road movie and part pre-prom graduation romp, the film is most interesting as a perspective on adolescence, in which all the girls are more mature, nervy and perceptive than any of the boys. - Todd McCarthy, hollywoodreporter.comJOOST - GLORY GAMEThe story of a modern warrior forced to face his own frailty. He shows us that within a ravaged body can surge the spirit of a survivor. - durbanfilmfest.co.za..