The new Star treats celebrities as people to envy (better clothes, better dates, better sex and, inevitably, better body parts) but also, if captured from a slightly different angle, as people who are just as wretched as you.

ECONOMIST: Face value

The first and last scenes of this movie vaguely remind you of an old Claude Lelouch weepie lovers looking wretched in a picturesque fog.

NEWYORKER: Indecent Proposal

You may have some inkling of compassion, because it's a human being in a very wretched state of existence, but I think they're unsympathetic to the extent that, historically, we have not put any kind of public resource at their disposal to help change their lives.

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