I wasn't really looking forward to going and seeing The Lovely Bones - I felt I had to. But I came out a fan.

I've read what the critics have said and seen the, rather ugly, US box office numbers. I don't care, I like this film.

Yes, it is sentimental, pulling a lot of heartstrings - and sentimentality is the enemy of great art. But somehow Jackson, Wilde and company pull it off, for me anyway.

The CGI was significant, and at one point I thought too much, but then even that redeemed itself.

I've never read Alice Sebold's book and probably never will. But the film held my attention throughout with very good performances, tension and, I thought, great non-exploitative taste in the way a brutal subject was depicted.