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 -

Where most films of this ilk are driven by aggression, Marx instead pushes hers forward with a mix of melancholy, quiet desperation and futility.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Where most films of this ilk are driven by aggression, Marx instead pushes hers forward with a mix of melancholy, quiet desperation and futility.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The most compelling aspect of the film is it's sheer physicality.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The most compelling aspect of the film is it's sheer physicality.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

There will be plot developments involving kidnap, the loot as ransom and a gunfight but those are really just the action icing on the cake of what is, at heart, a character study and a dissection of friendship.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

There will be plot developments involving kidnap, the loot as ransom and a gunfight but those are really just the action icing on the cake of what is, at heart, a character study and a dissection of friendship.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

In many ways it is an odd mixture that hangs separately, but never together.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

In many ways it is an odd mixture that hangs separately, but never together.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

For Stavreski, its character first and plot second while commentary comes along for the ride, as he focuses on the dad and son relationship at the film's heart.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

For Stavreski, its character first and plot second while commentary comes along for the ride, as he focuses on the dad and son relationship at the film's heart.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Muayad Alayan's beautifully observed, studiously discomfiting film has a lot to say about power and privilege.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Muayad Alayan's beautifully observed, studiously discomfiting film has a lot to say about power and privilege.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The script avoids sentimentality. The performances offer little gratification to romantics.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The script avoids sentimentality. The performances offer little gratification to romantics.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

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 -

The raw energy that Cassel brought to his role in La Haine has been harnessed again.

~ Trinity -

The raw energy that Cassel brought to his role in La Haine has been harnessed again.

~ Trinity -

Lanthimos satirises our obsession with relationships and modern day electronic dating rituals although the results are not nearly as funny and knowing as the director clearly thinks.

~ Richard Mowe -

Lanthimos satirises our obsession with relationships and modern day electronic dating rituals although the results are not nearly as funny and knowing as the director clearly thinks.

~ Richard Mowe -

Not every risky idea works, but where they are successful, the results are dazzling.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Not every risky idea works, but where they are successful, the results are dazzling.

~ Jennie Kermode -

In this very impressive debut from Louis Malle, the small budget proves no impediment to delivering a taut thriller.

~ Chris -

In this very impressive debut from Louis Malle, the small budget proves no impediment to delivering a taut thriller.

~ Chris -

Lanthimos confirms his reputation as one of contemporary cinema’s most original and unsettling directors

~ Richard Mowe -

Lanthimos confirms his reputation as one of contemporary cinema’s most original and unsettling directors

~ Richard Mowe -

If you watch one western in your lifetime, make it The Good, The Bad And The Ugly.

~ Jennie Kermode -

If you watch one western in your lifetime, make it The Good, The Bad And The Ugly.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Don't read this review... simply go and see it, for if ever there was a film that is best experienced without knowing a single detail, this unforgettable oddity from Greece is the one.

~ Andrew Grant -

Don't read this review... simply go and see it, for if ever there was a film that is best experienced without knowing a single detail, this unforgettable oddity from Greece is the one.

~ Andrew Grant -

Aside from a slight flabbiness in some areas, Kechiche is to be praised for exploring the nature of change on a personal and a community level - and packing the result with some emotional wallop.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Aside from a slight flabbiness in some areas, Kechiche is to be praised for exploring the nature of change on a personal and a community level - and packing the result with some emotional wallop.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Takes a bawdy idea and turns it into something far more complex.

~ Luke Shaw -

Takes a bawdy idea and turns it into something far more complex.

~ Luke Shaw -

You might notice the elegance of composition while knowing that the place contains so much human suffering.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

You might notice the elegance of composition while knowing that the place contains so much human suffering.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

A commanding painting of passions, relationships and enlightenment.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

A commanding painting of passions, relationships and enlightenment.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Measured but naturally emotional recollections dovetail with the more impressionistic animated segments to scrutinise the psyche of war.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Measured but naturally emotional recollections dovetail with the more impressionistic animated segments to scrutinise the psyche of war.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Ott’s interest is not in creating an accurate depiction of exactly what happened in the run-up to the Oklahoma City bombing, but rather in exploring the thought processes behind it.

~ Jennie Kermode -

I laughed, and was not alone in doing so, out loud, and repeatedly.

~ Andrew Robertson -

In this tangled tapestry, Russell has captured the soul of a nation.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It feels as if a collection of fantasy and dystopian science fiction archetypes have been poured into a blender and swirled around to produce the script and visuals.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Manages to squeeze solid performances from actors and to infuse the run of the mill story with some dense and tense atmosphere set against the backdrop of the overall slickness of Frank Griebe’s cinematography

~ Marko Stojiljkovic -

If the humour works for you at all, you’ll find it a hoot.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Director Siobhan McCarthy is adept at using the long-established visual language of the high school movie both to entertain and to show us the world from a perspective that’s relatively new to cinema.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Clown in A Cornfield has a lot of heart, and not just of the bloody variety.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Bong loses the thread in numerous half-baked sub-plots whose inflation takes its toll on the bloated runtime.

~ Marko Stojiljkovic -

Every frame feels like the product of conscious decision-making, with nothing merely carrying us from one point to another.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Hallow Road is an Irish co-production, and it shows both in theme and in quality.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It’s refreshing to encounter a multiverse film that doesn’t mess about.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A surprisingly droll deconstruction of crime reconstruction.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The circumstances of women are central to the film.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Kurosawa's masterful synthesis doesn't stop with the script. He weaves a late Edo period samurai film, in its painstaking historic detail, into modernity.

~ Donald Munro -

The film is at its most effective when we feel the urgency of their boredom – the athletic one pacing in circles like a trapped animal – juxtaposed with the languid charm of their environment.

~ 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 -

Every frame feels like the product of conscious decision-making, with nothing merely carrying us from one point to another.

~ 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 -

Ashcroft’s interpretation steers the story away from simple tragedy as we see Mortensen making gains as well as losses.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Comic invention rides shotgun on a screenplay that runs wild.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

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 -

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 -

A sophisticated palate will discern any number of flavours running through Black Bag, but these are glosses on a traditional recipe.

~ Andrew Robertson -

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 -