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Phil Traill knows about being an underdog: he directed All About Steve.

The only way is up, then, for his sporting romcom, starring Cemetery Junction’s Felicity Jones as a teenage maid up to her ear-muffs in snobbery at a flash ski resort, where she takes a fancy to competitive snowboarding (and Gossip Girl’s Ed Westwick).

The outlook’s grey: tatty production values, clichéd backstory (dead mum, crippled confidence), no laughs. But it’s steered to success – just – by Jones, a natural, likeable everygirl who will make you care, possibly against your will, about a story as old as the Alps.

Matthew Leyland is the former Reviews Editor of Total Film magazine. A writer and editor with extensive print and online experience, Matthew specialises in film, TV, streaming and general pop culture. Matthew's Star Wars knowledge knows no bounds, and he once interviewed George Lucas.