With sandy docklands, rusting hulks, the taxi we follow drifts through an unfathomable landscape.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Slight but entertaining.

~ Andrew Robertson -

By focussing so intently on the minutae of the nursery Barnett creates a drama on the nature of existence

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Cinema at its most inventively audacious.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Mark Ash's film is filled with quirky, imaginitive detail.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Unfortunately these fascinating interviews are presented in a disorganised manner that detracts from their impact, and the sound quality is so bad than in places it makes the film unwatchable.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It resembles nothing more than a challenge round in a movie quiz, save that there is no obvious reward, seemingly no point.

~ Andrew Robertson -

The animation is excellent - computer generated 3D in muted tones for granny’s world, vibrant colour in 2D for the fairytale.

~ Leanne McGrath -

One can't help but feel that the Queen would probably find life more fun if every royal outing were like this.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This is clever, if distinctly odd.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

It's hard to see where this film was even trying to go and even harder to put yourself through the minutes it takes to get to wherever that is.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Strong, engaging, deeply personal.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Metev isn't scared to hold a shot, letting silence unfold as often as conversation and though people occasionally seem to roll their eyes at the camera, this adds to the charm.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Gold Top is a low key, sweet film.

~ James Benefield -

This is imagination overload.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The fox that befriends our protagonist is quite an ominous fox.

~ Andrew Robertson -

There are lines, but they are blurry, hypnotically so.

~ Andrew Robertson -

This is a thing that is beautifully composed.

~ Andrew Robertson -

DeRoche has created a documentary that's both heart-warming and illuminating.

~ Andrew Robertson -

The Gloaming has atmosphere but lacks the plot that would lift it above the average.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

This is slickly professional, and gorgeous.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Well made films can trigger big changes in the world. A Girl In The River is one of those films.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Jessica Langford has style by the bucketload.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Ghost Burger defies expectations by delivering a continually entertaining tale.

~ Jennie Kermode -

There's the germ of a good idea here, but the film feels like a rough cut.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The film itself is a thing attacked, artifact upon medium transformed by light into something inexplicable.

~ Andrew Robertson -

There are compositions audible and painterly, moments of juxtaposition and superposition, frames that perhaps deserve frames.

~ Andrew Robertson -

With simple but beautiful animation that really captures the atmosphere of Iona and its surrounding waters, this film is a delight to watch.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It's refreshing to see a film about people like this which shows them taking the lead and being very much in charge of their own destiny.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Even these fantasies are grounded in locale.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Razan Madhoon's film is a gut-punch, a wrenching.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Inventiveness with camera in what feels like location shooting rather than two-camera studio gives it a versimilitude that helps carry its comic elements.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Jobson carries the film with remarkable confidence.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Love, loss and laughter come together.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The spirit of the thing is fun and frightening in equal measures.

~ Andrew Robertson -

The unease really builds with the wallpaper of the title screen, the scratching out of its name indicative in a way that will bear fruit later.

~ Andrew Robertson -

A thoughtful film which places the yearning for individual freedom into the context of a world in which people are interdependent, Goddess takes a gentle approach to asking difficult questions.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Uses sharp observation and economy of dialogue to set a scene.

~ Jane Fae -

Gorgeous imagery is at once sense and senseless, transporting and troubling, riddle and rhythm.

~ Andrew Robertson -

The noirish animation gives the girl a dramatic presence that is larger than life, small and quiet though she is

~ Jennie Kermode -

This is a tale that does not start gently, and is unafraid to show its teeth.

~ Andrew Robertson -

The three boys in the film – Matthew Dillon, Sean Gormley and Matthew Broe – deliver wonderfully fresh performances.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Brief, but memorable.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Watching the latest short film directed by Alejandra Parody and written by Daniel Solé, you can sense they are more than ready to step up to features.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Dean Stalham's script is nicely paced, touching, and Nele Hecht's direction catches plenty of nuance in the cast's performances.

~ Andrew Robertson -

It made me shudder every time it eked out a chuckle.

~ Scott Macdonald -

Adrien Merigeau's film makes use of a variety of contrasts to shed light on place and personality.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Although this is only 25 minutes long, it is lean and immersive and, while it feels complete in itself, could easily form the foundation for an equally strong longer feature in the Ken Loach mould.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Director Ida Jogler uses fantastic elements to put across the violence inherent in her protagonist's gaze.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Everything rests on Ansari - in gesture and step, in glance, in gaze.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Conveys mood and beauty ably but never quite grabs.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Dziewanska is perfectly cast as Ruthie, directed so that her natural energy leaps from the screen but also able to capture how children easily pick up on the energy of others in ways that can make them move quickly between opposing emotions.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Loosely structured, although maintaining an impressive balance between its stories.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Cinematographer Ebrahim Moradi (who also edited the film with Parvazeh) captures the great and small of this community, showing a painterly and patient eye for faces.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Get On The Plane demonstrates the way in which asylum seekers have been dehumanised in the popular imagination.

~ Jennie Kermode -

An amazing film, masterfully paced.

~ Andrew Robertson -

It's nice to see that someone has been paying attention in Film Studies.

~ Martin Gray -

Hobbs exploits the machine's motion - from left to right of a page - as a way of bolstering the sense of movement.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The delight of the drama stems from the well crafted characters, while its heft hinges on toxicity that may not be immediately obvious.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A very effective piece of low budget storytelling.

~ Jennie Kermode -

An extraordinarily thorough film.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Writer/director Sandhya Suri - who has a documentary background - is keen to show that everyone plays their part in the prejudices and corruption of the legal system.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Once again, Guiraudie proves himself the master of setting up a mystery by the means of perfect script economy that functions strictly on “need to know” basis.

~ Marko Stojiljkovic -

The director shows how it’s not just Julie’s tennis skills that have been groomed by the coach but large aspects of her life.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Cat’s viewpoint predominates, and Zilbalodis has an acute understanding of how the world looks from its point of view, of what catches its attention and how its body follows instinctively.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It’s ironic that a film about a family who have built a perfect facsimile of a life for themselves should feel so overly constructed itself

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Lin and Sun studiously maintain the enigma around Shuo so that we are left guessing as to whether he’s just a disadvantaged teen trying to make his way in the world or a cuckoo in the nest.

~ Amber Wilkinson -