The Show (2020 film)
Fletcher reveals to Faith that he isn’t looking for a friend but is in fact a private investigator looking for a missing necklace and that his client is an elderly East End businessman, Patsy Bleeker.[5] Reviewing the premiere online, due to COVID-19 pandemic travel restrictions, Kirsty Puchko writing for IGN, described it as “an unrepentantly trippy Noir that assaults the senses, cackling all the while” and continued “Alan Moore gives his fans doses of what they crave from him.[6] On its UK release, The Guardian gave the film four out of five stars, writing "The plot is a Chandlerian shoal of red herrings but, like Moore’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comics, no detail is accidental: from the pun-strewn flyposters to Fletcher’s Dennis the Menace red-and-black sweatshirt."[7] Marc Burrows, reviewing for HeyUguys.com scored the film four out of five stars, noting the comic script: “Alan Moore’s sense of humour has always been an underrated aspect of his writing, and The Show is filled with cracking, beautifully observed dialogue and ridiculous imagery.”[8] Writing in Sight & Sound, Kim Newman described Mitch Jenkins’ direction as “colourful, lucid-dream, Lynch-by-way-of-Film4”.[10] Writing in BBC Culture, Nicholas Barber said The Show was a "must-see release" for October 2021, describing it as "a detective yarn about a mystery man scouring the streets of Northampton for a jewel thief, but it's also a surreal, magical, nocturnal odyssey".