British director Michael Winterbottom accomplishes the unthinkable with Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2005), his imaginative adaptation of a sprawling and cerebral sixteenth-century novel by Laurence Sterne. Tristram Shandy has long been regarded as impossible to adapt, but Winterbottom pulls it off with aplomb by creating a movie-inside-a-movie that capably communicates the high comedy and zany self-referential quality of the book. … Become a Mr Skin Member and get the full review