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There were few real goalscoring opportunities and Italy’s best chance of the match came with the last piece of action of the first half as Bryan Cristante headed a corner onto the near post.

And the Philippous had only 10 prop doors for McCarthy to break through, a crucial piece of action that had to go off smoothly midway through the shot.

In “A Woman’s View,” Basinger writes: “And there is one unique convention that almost never appears anywhere except in a woman’s film, the Happy Interlude. This sequence, which might also be called the Bliss Montage, is familiar to anyone who watches old movies … Her Happy Interlude is a woman’s small piece of action, her marginal territory of joy.”

As a sustained piece of action choreography, then, “Athena” is frequently staggering.

"Cary Joji Fukunaga has made a smashing piece of action cinema with No Time to Die - it's just a shame it had to be a Bond film," she said.