Nature through a different lens

SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH’S latest documentary is very likely to be his last. Released to cinemas on his ninety-ninth birthday, Ocean has the tone of a valediction: a swan song with whale song, and a shakier iteration of that celebrated reverential rasp. Notwithstanding its five stars in The Guardian and 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, it is also something of a disappointment. For all its sumptuous cinematography, Ocean feels strangely out of its depth or, at any rate, out of its element. [More here.]