engrossing

He was on the Red Bull's tail just over 10 laps later and the two set about an engrossing battle over the next 10 laps.

And Total Film's Jamie Graham said Watkins' "shrewd, engrossing and pleasingly nasty" imagining is unafraid to push the source material in new directions, with McAvoy "perfect... for this particular brand of Alpha male brute".

In Screen Daily, Tim Grierson added that the two leads "fail to spark", and the movie is "without the insight that made the original film so engrossing and unsettling".

This was another engrossing day in a fabulous Test, one that could yet produce a grandstand finish.

The Times called it “an enlightening, entertaining and at times engrossing dramatized survey of America’s coming of imperialistic age at the turn of the 20th century.”