Stan & Ollie (Jon S. Baird, 2018)

This follows the legendary comic duo in the twilight of their careers, as they embark on a tour of Britain's music halls after failing to get the backing to make one more film. Their quality as performers is still there, but the audiences have drifted away and Hardy's health is failing.
There's nothing particularly revelatory in the trajectory of the story, but that hardly matters: the casting of Steve Coogan as Laurel and John C. Reilly (under highly convincing prosthetics) as Hardy is nigh-on perfect, from the look to the mannerisms, including Coogan's immaculate impersonation of Laurel's faux-stilted Transatlantic delivery. And, above all, it's as bittersweetly funny and affectionate as how you wanted to imagine the deep friendship between the pair to have been. It makes you want to see their 107 features and shorts all over again.

7/10