This is a very particular film - one where particles of detail crystallise into observation, meaning and import accreting like nacre around grit, producing a pearl, a natural jewel.

~ Andrew Robertson -

This is a very particular film - one where particles of detail crystallise into observation, meaning and import accreting like nacre around grit, producing a pearl, a natural jewel.

~ Andrew Robertson -

There's a refreshing lack of sentimentality in the way Omerzu captures his duo of protagonists.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

There's a refreshing lack of sentimentality in the way Omerzu captures his duo of protagonists.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Landscape and music and everyday objects are used to splendid effect.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Landscape and music and everyday objects are used to splendid effect.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Annemarie Jacir's characters may not leave the city of Nazareth as they take a circular road trip in Wajib but the emotional distance they travel is considerable.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Annemarie Jacir's characters may not leave the city of Nazareth as they take a circular road trip in Wajib but the emotional distance they travel is considerable.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

There is strangeness here but of an intriguing rather than repellent sort.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

There is strangeness here but of an intriguing rather than repellent sort.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Brunner clearly loves Norman - art for art's sake! - but fails to communicate how others have come to tolerate him.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Brunner clearly loves Norman - art for art's sake! - but fails to communicate how others have come to tolerate him.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

An astounding film.

~ Jennie Kermode -

An astounding film.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Slaboshpytskiy goes to show, first through Anna and then the actions of Sergey that some transactions can hold a lot more - and worse - than we have bargained for.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Slaboshpytskiy goes to show, first through Anna and then the actions of Sergey that some transactions can hold a lot more - and worse - than we have bargained for.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Aris is observant and adept at balancing emotions, knowing when to pull the camera viewpoint back to give both his subjects and the viewer some space.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Aris is observant and adept at balancing emotions, knowing when to pull the camera viewpoint back to give both his subjects and the viewer some space.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

There is artistry here and an absence of cliche.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

There is artistry here and an absence of cliche.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Hall makes you feel the constant battle between exhaustion, frustration, and compassion,

~ Owen Van Spall -

Hall makes you feel the constant battle between exhaustion, frustration, and compassion,

~ Owen Van Spall -

There's a strong sense of isolation from the start in Fisher's film.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

There's a strong sense of isolation from the start in Fisher's film.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A fast, furious and occasionally hilarious angster comedy.

~ Michael Pattison -

A fast, furious and occasionally hilarious angster comedy.

~ Michael Pattison -

By simply observing the men as they move around, the film avoids over-interpretation, working hard to leave space for each person watching to find their own narrative as to why each man might have chosen this sport.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

By simply observing the men as they move around, the film avoids over-interpretation, working hard to leave space for each person watching to find their own narrative as to why each man might have chosen this sport.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Overton uses the visuals of sign language well, showing how they offer real freedom of expression for the previously sidelined Libby and, at one point, kills the sound completely to immerse us fully in her world.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Overton uses the visuals of sign language well, showing how they offer real freedom of expression for the previously sidelined Libby and, at one point, kills the sound completely to immerse us fully in her world.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Like Bergman's work, it might initially seem dry, but it's as rich in wit as it is in insight.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Like Bergman's work, it might initially seem dry, but it's as rich in wit as it is in insight.

~ Jennie Kermode -

If it doesn't make sense terror dissolves into a puddle of giggles

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

If it doesn't make sense terror dissolves into a puddle of giggles

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Mansky's bigger picture about the manipulation of a nation is crystal clear.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Mansky's bigger picture about the manipulation of a nation is crystal clear.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Definitely one of Arnie's best and a landmark action movie.

~ Gator MacReady -

Definitely one of Arnie's best and a landmark action movie.

~ Gator MacReady -

Yannis Drakopoulos is on fine form in the central role and there are some great supporting performances.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Yannis Drakopoulos is on fine form in the central role and there are some great supporting performances.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Fyrogeni is brittle and intense in the central role, carrying herself in the slightly bent, over-cautious manner of someone continually expecting blame.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Fyrogeni is brittle and intense in the central role, carrying herself in the slightly bent, over-cautious manner of someone continually expecting blame.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A film that understands its audience exceptionally well.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A film that understands its audience exceptionally well.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This film is as much about Nina coming to understand herself fully as a woman and as a whole, independent person as it is about her sexuality.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This film is as much about Nina coming to understand herself fully as a woman and as a whole, independent person as it is about her sexuality.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This is astonishing filmmaking.

~ Andrew Robertson -

This is astonishing filmmaking.

~ Andrew Robertson -

The director has an aptitude for taking a dash of the familiar and giving it an individual twist.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The director has an aptitude for taking a dash of the familiar and giving it an individual twist.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

I was won over by the whole approach of this confident sophomore feature pretty early on, from the witty, frank but also very tender script to the great casting and performances.

~ Owen Van Spall -

I was won over by the whole approach of this confident sophomore feature pretty early on, from the witty, frank but also very tender script to the great casting and performances.

~ Owen Van Spall -

Both Rodriguez and Rohana deliver delicate, nuanced performances in a story that revolves in large part around friendship.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Both Rodriguez and Rohana deliver delicate, nuanced performances in a story that revolves in large part around friendship.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Gilliam’s script cannot quite stand the excesses of his own imagination.

~ Richard Mowe -

Gilliam’s script cannot quite stand the excesses of his own imagination.

~ Richard Mowe -

The film only lives up to about 80% of the promise whereas I wanted 150%.

~ Owen Van Spall -

The film only lives up to about 80% of the promise whereas I wanted 150%.

~ Owen Van Spall -

Deadpan absurdity, everyday madness and enlightenment through routine merge in an attempt to answer the big questions of life.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Deadpan absurdity, everyday madness and enlightenment through routine merge in an attempt to answer the big questions of life.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

If only Zanasi and co had put a little more faith in the psychological elements of the screenplay rather than worshipping at the altar of cheap laughs.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

If only Zanasi and co had put a little more faith in the psychological elements of the screenplay rather than worshipping at the altar of cheap laughs.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Teles runs the gamut of emotions. We don't need to hear her discuss how she is feeling, we can see it written on her face

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Teles runs the gamut of emotions. We don't need to hear her discuss how she is feeling, we can see it written on her face

~ Amber Wilkinson -

I'm not sure it constitutes scholarship in and of itself, but it is certainly (as with all good documentary) a satisfying look at something hereto unseen.

~ Andrew Robertson -

I'm not sure it constitutes scholarship in and of itself, but it is certainly (as with all good documentary) a satisfying look at something hereto unseen.

~ Andrew Robertson -

One thing I particularly enjoyed was that it balances its study of Will with an exploration of Tom’s coming of age, while never making Will’s decision to drop out morally clear-cut.

~ Owen Van Spall -

One thing I particularly enjoyed was that it balances its study of Will with an exploration of Tom’s coming of age, while never making Will’s decision to drop out morally clear-cut.

~ Owen Van Spall -

What remains true now, as it was then, is the scale and scope of the thing.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

What remains true now, as it was then, is the scale and scope of the thing.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Kid-Thing is all about kid-think, with David Zellner keeping his main character's child perspective front and centre at all times.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Kid-Thing is all about kid-think, with David Zellner keeping his main character's child perspective front and centre at all times.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Patrick Orth's cinematography gives this a beguiling warmth but it's really Löw's performance that makes it work.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Patrick Orth's cinematography gives this a beguiling warmth but it's really Löw's performance that makes it work.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Sound fades into nothing and the pace slows

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Sound fades into nothing and the pace slows

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Highlander cannot be faulted for its boldness, trying to reinvent the genre by dragging it kicking and screaming into the modern age.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Highlander cannot be faulted for its boldness, trying to reinvent the genre by dragging it kicking and screaming into the modern age.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Newcomer Tardiolo is splendid in the lead.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Newcomer Tardiolo is splendid in the lead.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Ashby's daughter Leigh MacManus is one of the few contributors to offer an off-set perspective of the man - and it comes with a poignancy and beat of heartfelt truth that is lacking elsewhere.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Ashby's daughter Leigh MacManus is one of the few contributors to offer an off-set perspective of the man - and it comes with a poignancy and beat of heartfelt truth that is lacking elsewhere.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Well-written dialogue, strong acting all round and unobtrusive but taut direction give it real strength.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Well-written dialogue, strong acting all round and unobtrusive but taut direction give it real strength.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Directed with admirable understatement and restraint.

~ Richard Mowe -

Directed with admirable understatement and restraint.

~ Richard Mowe -

Smoczynska remains one to watch. She has a signature style and an ability to generate a sense of odd estrangement from virtually nothing.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Smoczynska remains one to watch. She has a signature style and an ability to generate a sense of odd estrangement from virtually nothing.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Touching and brave.

~ Richard Mowe -

Touching and brave.

~ Richard Mowe -

The film demands and receives a strong and forceful performance from Karelle Tremblay who is more than able to rise to the challenges.

~ Richard Mowe -

The film demands and receives a strong and forceful performance from Karelle Tremblay who is more than able to rise to the challenges.

~ Richard Mowe -

Drink in the imposition of expressionism through ergonomics, gaze up, craning at shots considered anew.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Drink in the imposition of expressionism through ergonomics, gaze up, craning at shots considered anew.

~ Andrew Robertson -

While Farhadi certainly knows how to spin a web of intrigue, deceit and suspicion, the narrative has a tendency to leap from strand to strand, often leaving the audience stumbling in its wake.

~ Richard Mowe -

While Farhadi certainly knows how to spin a web of intrigue, deceit and suspicion, the narrative has a tendency to leap from strand to strand, often leaving the audience stumbling in its wake.

~ Richard Mowe -

Each successive scene hits you over the head with the ferocity of the action.

~ Richard Mowe -

Each successive scene hits you over the head with the ferocity of the action.

~ Richard Mowe -

Nemec knows that, in the real world, most people's trains of thought don't move steadily from one place to another like a teleplay but instead flit about, throwing up a murmur of a memory here, the whisper of a fantasy there.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Nemec knows that, in the real world, most people's trains of thought don't move steadily from one place to another like a teleplay but instead flit about, throwing up a murmur of a memory here, the whisper of a fantasy there.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The film carries a message about the importance of tolerance, love and a healthy dose of silliness in the face of the darker elements of modern life.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The film carries a message about the importance of tolerance, love and a healthy dose of silliness in the face of the darker elements of modern life.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Bitokov develops the shifting, brooding relationships of the men well but other elements of the story are given short shrift.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Bitokov develops the shifting, brooding relationships of the men well but other elements of the story are given short shrift.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Beautifully lit, Daughter Of Mine conjures up a tremendous sense of place, all salt breezes, scrubland and golden sand.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Beautifully lit, Daughter Of Mine conjures up a tremendous sense of place, all salt breezes, scrubland and golden sand.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The Zellner brothers...enter into a fascinating structural dialogue with the history of the genre.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The Zellner brothers...enter into a fascinating structural dialogue with the history of the genre.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

It's the boxy Apple Mac precursors that are the real stars in many ways. It's hard not to feel a warm glow of affection for them, assuming you are a viewer of a certain age.

~ Owen Van Spall -

It's the boxy Apple Mac precursors that are the real stars in many ways. It's hard not to feel a warm glow of affection for them, assuming you are a viewer of a certain age.

~ Owen Van Spall -

Beautifully shot and articulated.

~ Richard Mowe -

Beautifully shot and articulated.

~ Richard Mowe -

McAlpine is so eager that we experience the same sense of joy that she is that she over-editorialises, offering voice-over observations that are more distracting than deep.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

McAlpine is so eager that we experience the same sense of joy that she is that she over-editorialises, offering voice-over observations that are more distracting than deep.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The directors' intentions remain obscure; as always, one feels that by watching their work one is becoming a part of the experiment.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The directors' intentions remain obscure; as always, one feels that by watching their work one is becoming a part of the experiment.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Lee works the narrative with an ambivalence that borders on the inscrutable

~ Sunil Chauhan -

Lee works the narrative with an ambivalence that borders on the inscrutable

~ Sunil Chauhan -

both a love letter to the documentarians from the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania... and a dialogue between the period in which these poetic pioneers were working and the present day.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

both a love letter to the documentarians from the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania... and a dialogue between the period in which these poetic pioneers were working and the present day.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

An original and highly ambitious premise that maintains its grip your attention and imagination.

~ Richard Mowe -

An original and highly ambitious premise that maintains its grip your attention and imagination.

~ Richard Mowe -

This emerges as a piece of bravura filmmaking that tackles huge themes with style and intelligence while providing a compelling narrative drive.

~ Richard Mowe -

This emerges as a piece of bravura filmmaking that tackles huge themes with style and intelligence while providing a compelling narrative drive.

~ Richard Mowe -

The rituals set in motion at the start, also tune us into the wavelength of portent, so that a heron's feet on a rug or the sound of locusts carry at least as much threat as the site of a loaded gun.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The rituals set in motion at the start, also tune us into the wavelength of portent, so that a heron's feet on a rug or the sound of locusts carry at least as much threat as the site of a loaded gun.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Despite its entertainingly unusual premise, Billy The Kid And The Green Baize Vampires doesn't really hang together as a story.

~ Sarah Artt -

Despite its entertainingly unusual premise, Billy The Kid And The Green Baize Vampires doesn't really hang together as a story.

~ Sarah Artt -

Erffa's willingness to scrutinise her own motivations is what lifts this documentary above the ordinary.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Erffa's willingness to scrutinise her own motivations is what lifts this documentary above the ordinary.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Despite the family fall outs and relationship fallout, these characters are winningly human.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Despite the family fall outs and relationship fallout, these characters are winningly human.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Despite its grey, flat light and general melancholy punctured by menace, An Elephant Sitting Still is, by the end considerably more optimistic than it first appears about humanity.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Despite its grey, flat light and general melancholy punctured by menace, An Elephant Sitting Still is, by the end considerably more optimistic than it first appears about humanity.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Siam gives his film a strong sense of place, marked by chaos and flux - a city where you can drive past a "Welcome to Egypt" sign and army tanks within two blocks and where revolution may lead you to come full circle.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Siam gives his film a strong sense of place, marked by chaos and flux - a city where you can drive past a "Welcome to Egypt" sign and army tanks within two blocks and where revolution may lead you to come full circle.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Bukowska makes sure we become as fixated on Anna as she is on Witek, as cinematographer Tomasz Naumiuk's camera creeps ever closer to her, his stifling approach matched by dislocating sound design and Natalia Fiedorczuk-Cieslak's score.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Bukowska makes sure we become as fixated on Anna as she is on Witek, as cinematographer Tomasz Naumiuk's camera creeps ever closer to her, his stifling approach matched by dislocating sound design and Natalia Fiedorczuk-Cieslak's score.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The long wordless opening of 2001 remains one of the most beautiful sequences on film.

~ Nicola Osborne -

The long wordless opening of 2001 remains one of the most beautiful sequences on film.

~ Nicola Osborne -

What is not said is every bit as important as what is, and we are invited to observe the numerous ways in which the characters communicate without words.

~ Jennie Kermode -

What is not said is every bit as important as what is, and we are invited to observe the numerous ways in which the characters communicate without words.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It doesn’t quite hit the mark, but that’s not to say that it isn’t a pleasant way to while away an hour and a half.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The difference here from more familiar selections allows us to appreciate different qualities in the art.

~ Jennie Kermode -

In what is probably Côté's most straightforwardly observational film to date, the fictions come baked in.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

While Verseau talks about how crucial the surgery was to her mental health, the complexity of the emotions experienced afterwards is also made clear.

~ 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 -

The script is lean, the sword edges keen and the characters mean.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

An extraordinarily thorough film.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It’s the acting that carries it, and naturally Farahani, one of the finest talents of her generation, does not disappoint.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Subtle observations about the racism that underpins this superficially idyllic society pepper a film which repeatedly forces its hero to question his assumptions.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The film concludes with what is probably the most influential special effect in the history of cinema.

~ Donald Munro -

Bethmann understands the situation well, but her closeness to the teenager and the personal character that the film takes on as a result is something else.

~ Jennie Kermode -

So carefully balanced is this that the film could almost have emerged as a romcom, and it’s that possibility, that clash between the absurdity that cinema has taught us to expect and the bitterness of real life, that makes it so effective.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Through the lens of the men’s romance, Onir takes in a good deal more, exploring the complex realities behind assumptions of prejudice and the myriad factors that go into making each of us who we are.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Throughout the film there is a sense of play, and even as the story evolves to take on darker material, something of that lightness, that happy-go-lucky quality remains.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The film hinges on amazing vocal work by Lalama.

~ Jennie Kermode -

There’s a genuine unpredictability to Honey Bunch, both structurally and thematically.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Where the episodes work is when they have a driving, kinetic energy about them. When they don't it's repetitious loop.

~ Donald Munro -

The film, directed by feature debutant Shaun Dozier, retains the density of dialogue you might expect from a stage play but, by leaning into the theatrical nature of the proceedings, Dozier is in some ways able to make this into a virtue.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A very effective piece of low budget storytelling.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Coogan is well cast in this tricky role, moving easily from humour to heartbreak..

~ 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 -

The difference here from more familiar selections allows us to appreciate different qualities in the art.

~ Jennie Kermode -

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 -