While the characters are needfully sketched in broad strokes, this never feels patronising and sits perfectly within Harris' catalogue of eerie, beguiling tales.
As Albina and her followers traipse over barren lands and into forests protected by ancient Incans, the novel winds toward territory both magical and needfully human.
[T]his state of affairs means that no precedent has been established and the stability this matter of considerable public importance so needfully requires will have to await another day or days and even more lawsuits...
For a film boasting only marginally fewer producers than it does speaking roles, there's something impressively unguarded about "Filth." Sophomore helmer Jon S Baird's needfully messy adaptation of "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh's 1998 bestseller stays true to the novel's spirit of riotous despair, even as it cuts down on the tapeworm monologues.