Killing Them Softly is a strange cocktail of unusually thoughtful gangsters, stylized violence and unsubtle political satire. If you can get past the wanky title, viewers may be pleasantly surprised by its thoughtful approach to grizzly topics but it is by no means the film it has been marketed to be. Think The New World with more guns.

Terrence Malick is the subject of this week’s Cheat Sheet and with his film opening at Cannes to good/bad [delete as applicable] response we’ll be having a look at the reclusive visionary.