Rule Of Thumb is very well edited, ensuring that it feels punchy and energetic, keeping a sense of momentum rather than slowing down in tandem with its hero's decline.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It is rare to be grateful that something so fleeting has passed.

~ Andrew Robertson -

The inky quality suits the mood, which is less a celebration of the night, than a look at its edgier side, with the paint acting like an encroaching darkness creeping through the frames, forming impressions of moments before the images are once again cons

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Short, sweet and charming.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

A poignant reconstruction.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Rural teaching gives us shades of Wake In Fright, the continual quest for a lack of discomfort and intermittent mobile signal an echo of Parasite.

~ Andrew Robertson -

The texture of the images has that roughness which suggests something raw, immediate and real, yet the very deliberate framing contradicts that impression. Many viewers will read it as dreamlike.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Sandro Baidarashvili's role is a strong one, the awkwardness of adolescence, look and glance and differing diffidence.

~ Andrew Robertson -

If you like this sort of thing, you’ll like this.

~ Jane Fae -

Minimal in form, devastating in impact, echoes and repurcussions left in its wake.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Sonia Ladida Schiavone's film, with Rosario Cammarot's cinematography, has the sense of something born of the stage, but transformed by cinema.

~ Andrew Robertson -

I’d defy anybody not to be amused (and impressed) by Serpico’s dexterity.

~ Jeff Robson -

This is at times quite uncomfortable viewing, intimate, neatly demonstrating the barriers that can be created for and by people in their lives.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Deep and fast and shocking is the film.

~ Andrew Robertson -

There is a good deal that’s praiseworthy about this carefully crafted film, but most notable are its central performances.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This is a delight, a chaotic collage of the dreamlike and the deliberate.

~ Andrew Robertson -

A wonderfully poetic film.

~ Trinity -

The action also feels under-powered in places, with set pieces mainly reminding you of other, more accomplished Wallace &Gromit outings, while you long for a bit more of the Gruffalo's heart.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The most striking thing about Robinson's Place is how much energy it has considering it is, for the most part, a study of ennui.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Meester is a strong lead...giving the film some much needed emotional force without oversimplifying it.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Constrained by medium to sight and sound, it suggests the other senses, beautifully so, with elegant composition of scenes.

~ Andrew Robertson -

A simple tale, beautifully told.

~ Andrew Robertson -

[Hart] doesn’t turn up the volume, but uses tone and repetition so effectively that the film becomes a microcosm of the real experience.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It is not pleasant, but it is powerful, strikingly so.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Visually striking, animated in a densely layered drawing.

~ Andrew Robertson -

A film which is built up through layers of small incidents and interactions.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Director Cyrus Neshvad hesitates to make anything too explicit. He lets us feel lost like the girl does, so that our primary guide is her emotional state.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Another showcase for Ferguson's technique, his very distinctive eye.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke plays with the very basics of film-making to great effect.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Don't expect to know; expect to feel... afraid.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Overflows with an abundance of lively and eclectic imagery.

~ James Gracey -

Real finds humour and warmth in socially awkward situations anyone can relate to.

~ Jennie Kermode -

If you’ve ever wondered what kind of job Ingmar Bergman would make of directing a Pixar short, now’s your chance to find out.

~ Jeff Robson -

It may well be depressingly accurate, but it's also depressingly familiar.

~ Andrew Robertson -

The use of visual techniques borrowed from giallo helps to communicate Clari’s growing sense of horror, her sudden inability to escape from something which she had previously learned not to think about.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Holding it all together is a heartbreaking performance by Barbieri.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This is a film of contrasts.

~ Jane Fae -

Editing and cinematography are excellent, occasionally innovative.

~ Chris -

Vincent Hunter's film is as unrelenting and tough as the true meaning of loneliness.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Craig Conway brings Malky to swaggering life.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Words are stretched into homilies that float in the visual soup and then drown.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The effect is like a childhood game in which different types of toy are fitted into the same imaginary universe.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Rob &Valentyna In Scotland feels genuine, even heartfelt.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Often there is a concept that positively zings, but then has little follow-through.

~ Anton Bitel -

The tone may be cheeky and playful, but it is always affectionately so.

~ Anton Bitel -

Like a quaalude driven into a cherry-centred chocolate it is a dreamy treat.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Elegantly shot.

~ Scott Macdonald -

Though intriguing, even entertaining, the film doesn't quite strike the right balance between subject and depiction.

~ Andrew Robertson -

The direction is tight, although it sports some rather unecessary tics.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Superbly photographed.

~ Scott Macdonald -

From the notes it apparently abstracts different theoretical elements from a variety of disciplines, but in practise it's a field of flashing shapes with something approaching music in the background.

~ Andrew Robertson -

There's got to be humour that doesn't feel like pointing and laughing at a PVC-clad strawman.

~ Andrew Robertson -

That surrealistic sensation of unease is the film's strength.

~ Andrew Robertson -

What happens? Hard to say, really.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The film has a faded look that is nicely rendered and the pier is used to good effect.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Whatever your feelings about assisted suicide, Relics touches deep emotions common to us all.

~ Chris -

This is a film that sets out to challenge the way families like Ben and Louisa's are perceived. The trouble is that it doesn't really have much of an argument to make.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Clever and cute.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Refuge England is a film made by someone with empathy for the man onscreen and genuine insight into the experience of leaving your home through necessity rather than choice.

~ Rebecca Naughten -

On the one hand, this is a picture of despair; on the other, it shows people who are frequently dismissed proving themselves to be forceful and resilient in the face of adversity.

~ Jennie Kermode -

In 30 minutes we are treated to a story that teaches us more about the resilience of the human spirit and the triumphs it can achieve over hardships and injustices than many films three or four times as long.

~ Caro Ness -

David Ferguson Reid's script dismembers cliche and gives it new limbs.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Nick Whitfield’s 12-minute short has a biting script with nothing to bite on.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

It has no start, save its beginning, no end, save when it stops.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Such intelligent use of camera and cast lifts Yates out of the pool of promising young directors into the front line of genuine hopefuls.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The technique is interesting and it's fantastical, Alice In Wonderland style imagery is a match for the track.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Odds on, you'll laugh.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

This is one of the better written Road Runner cartoons, successfully subverting expectations on several occasions.

~ Jennie Kermode -

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 -