Strikingly original, it manages to tread a fine line between melancholy and macabre, sadness and celebration.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Sure to delight young and old alike.

~ Trinity -

Nic Shearer's film has a sensitivy that defies explanation.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The scripting and performances are well-judged and Ian Clark keeps things running like clockwork.

~ Scott Macdonald -

While the accompanying imagery is quite impressive, it is more of a distraction than an aid to the story.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Less traditional but perhaps stronger for it.

~ Andrew Robertson -

The papier mache models would be rejected at a Blue Peter open day and the stop/start animation is crude.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Neisi’s film gives you a sense of the fact that these mini weapons of destruction are absolutely everywhere - even hanging from the trees.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A passionate little film.

~ Jennie Kermode -

There is something basic, acute and very clever about this fractuous statement on the illusion of marital harmony.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

It’s a lively, innovative technique which directly connects style and subject and also facilitates a playful wit.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The performances are delicate and precise.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Kornfeld has a strong sense for the rhythms of this kind of comedy, and deploys them to great effect.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A joyous film.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The liberties taken with the work of a playwright famed for his contemporary analysis of the morays of fin-de-siecle Vienna are a triumph.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Michelle Garza Cervera's hard-hitting film combines an elegant sense of aesthetics with emotional intelligence and insight.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Though there is a melancholy aspect to it, Orchestrator Of Storms explores who Rollin was as a person with warmth and wit, and shares his enthusiasm for, as it is phrased here, ‘beauty in the grotesque and the morose and the opulent.’

~ Jennie Kermode -

Sikumi is certainly stark, and yet there is room even in this cold, austere backdrop for the warmth of the human spirit.

~ Anton Bitel -

Snippets of their conversations build together to let us see a real person, at odds with the tradition of legend-building.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Tremendous.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Simple yet charming animation, conceived with an eye for detail, rounds out the characters and helps us get to know them intimately even in the absence of spoken dialogue.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The production design and colour work are excellent here, bringing the musician’s carefully ordered world to life.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Simply but effectively shot, with impressive low-light work for a beginner, the film itself combines the personal and the political very effectively.

~ Jennie Kermode -

There are layers of colonial consequence to these spaces, their gardens dominated by stepped approaches and the borrowed architecture of imagined pasts.

~ Andrew Robertson -

It’s an eight minute advertisement.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Gets some of its pastiche spot on, but runs short of ideas well before the end.

~ Jennie Kermode -

There are some tremendous bits of effects work, but the olláparo is mostly contrived of suggestion.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Sara Kestelman takes a simply drawn character and gives her depth and complexity.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A feast for the eyes.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A brief and breezy film.

~ Andrew Robertson -

In a film which is primarily observational and incorporates just the briefest snippets of interview, the coming change goes unspoken, but both boys are aware of it.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Unflinching in its observation, compelling in its detail.

~ Andrew Robertson -

On The Receiving End does a good job of getting its message across in such a way that it cannot be accused of emotional manipulation.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The film-makers have a good eye for detail.

~ Val Kermode -

A bold take on a subject it's still all too easy to obfuscate.

~ Jennie Kermode -

There is no lack of imagination here, although some of the scripting sags a little and is not quite as amusing as it possibly thinks it is.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Twenty four minutes is a long time to stretch a single joke.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Day’s animation is slick and engaging.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

It's a nice idea but, at four minutes, this film is just a little too long to sustain itself with one joke and not much else.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The skill of the animators is never less than imaginative.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

While there's good technique on display it's not as captivating as animation can be.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Performances are so good that you could easily watch it with the sound down and still adore every bit of its squishy heroes adventures.

~ Scott Macdonald -

With all the slap and grease-paint it's between pan-cake and pandaemonium.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Bursting with energy and ideas.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Thought-provoking throughout.

~ Andrew Robertson -

The Offer doesn't waste any time or attempt to spare viewers' sensibilities.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Those who don't mind a bit of sex with their punchlines will be well-served.

~ 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 -