Jake Gyllenhaal is made to squirm in every frame of Presumed Innocent

Taylor Swift fans will love this. Gyllenhaal is one of the pop star’s former lovers, more vilified than many for his supposedly callous treatment of her. The sight of him squirming in virtually every frame will be sweet revenge indeed for Swifties, even if it’s only a character, not the man himself, who’s being done slowly. Adapted by Ally McBeal and Boston Legal creator David E. Kelley, who has become a master teller of tales about privilege upended by bad behaviour (Big Little Lies, The Undoing, Nine Perfect Strangers), this version deviates from both the film and the novel in ways that are both significant and welcome. For a start, while the murdered woman, Carolyn Polhemus (Norwegian actor Renate Reinsve, star of indie film The Worst Person in the World), still largely exists only in the minds and memories of others, she is a more sympathetic creature than the ladder-climbing lawyer of the film. She may have jilted Rusty, but there’s not even a hint of the slut-shaming that tarnished the earlier takes. The increased running time also allows for a much greater exploration of the impacts of both the affair and the investigation and subsequent court case on the marriage. As Rusty’s wife Barbara, Ruth Negga has plenty to play with: stoicism, grief, shock at the incremental revelations of his betrayals, a desire to even the score that sees her contemplating an affair of her own.