IN A WORLD ... ***

A joy from start to finish. Lake Bell wrote and directed "In a World..." and also plays the central character, a Hollywood voice coach competing to be the new voice of the trailer, you know the one who sells the movie to you while you're munching your popcorn and it's one of the funniest films I've seen in a very long time and like a lot of the best comedies the jokes are exclusively verbal.

Bell's terrific and she draws terrific performances from the rest of her cast including Eva Longoria playing herself in a brilliant cameo, (Bell is teaching her to sound like a Cockney gangster's wife). In fact, this is the kind of small budget comedy that should have gone onto Oscar success and become a classic rather than simply a cult movie but cult or classic, this is one to savour; it's a real gem.