Trying to choose the best Steven Spielberg film is nearly an impossible task. The great man himself has changed the cinematic landscape on multiple occasions creating classic after classic. From creating the modern-day Summer blockbuster with Jaws, to reinventing the sci-fi genre with Close Encounters of the Third Kind to revolutionising CGI and animatronics with Jurassic Park, Spielberg has a fair few films to pick from.

Pursued is one fascinatingly mixed bag of a film. Following the sudden death of her father, teenager Lark (Madison Lawlor) begins to suspect her mum’s new boyfriend, whom she’s never met, of being a murderer... until she doesn’t. When it comes to narrative intentionality, this is a truly confusing movie, and therefore slightly difficult to reckon with. What is set up here is not entirely understood until the payoff of the movie, and this is the result of screenplay and pacing inconsistencies. Th