That the biggest surprise of the film is not a plot point at all but the appearance of someone famous in a cameo role, speaks volumes.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

That the biggest surprise of the film is not a plot point at all but the appearance of someone famous in a cameo role, speaks volumes.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Time and place hold both no and every meaning in Christian Petzold's latest film.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Time and place hold both no and every meaning in Christian Petzold's latest film.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

While it’s interesting to hear his approach and the steps taken from writing the lyrics to matching the words with the beat, there is still a sense that Songwriter does nothing more than just self-promote.

~ John-Anthony Disotto -

While it’s interesting to hear his approach and the steps taken from writing the lyrics to matching the words with the beat, there is still a sense that Songwriter does nothing more than just self-promote.

~ John-Anthony Disotto -

Anybody who has ever run a business will relate.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Anybody who has ever run a business will relate.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A true original.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

A true original.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

There is satire here but this the director takes a jokes first, social comment second approach.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

There is satire here but this the director takes a jokes first, social comment second approach.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Pasolini's unfinished life remains painfully unresolved, as it should be.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Pasolini's unfinished life remains painfully unresolved, as it should be.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

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 -

Szumowska isn't aiming for subtly here and runs the risks of some of the townsfolk's attitudes slipping into broad brush character but the pathos at the film's heart for Jacek off-sets the problem.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Szumowska isn't aiming for subtly here and runs the risks of some of the townsfolk's attitudes slipping into broad brush character but the pathos at the film's heart for Jacek off-sets the problem.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Anderson creates sealed, self-supporting worlds, crammed with excruciating detail.

~ The Exile -

Anderson creates sealed, self-supporting worlds, crammed with excruciating detail.

~ The Exile -

Go in as a fan of Anderson's work and you will not be disappointed. Go in as a fan of film and you will likely be delighted.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Go in as a fan of Anderson's work and you will not be disappointed. Go in as a fan of film and you will likely be delighted.

~ Andrew Robertson -

For the most part this is a lyrical and lightly handled odd couple road movie that achieves a subtle resonance, although it is almost scuppered by a sudden major tonal shift in the film's final act.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

For the most part this is a lyrical and lightly handled odd couple road movie that achieves a subtle resonance, although it is almost scuppered by a sudden major tonal shift in the film's final act.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

While the script wraps up its ambiguities a little too neatly in the end, the themes it wrestles with are sensitively handled for the most part and resonate long after the credits have rolled.

~ David Graham -

While the script wraps up its ambiguities a little too neatly in the end, the themes it wrestles with are sensitively handled for the most part and resonate long after the credits have rolled.

~ David Graham -

This film displays a deftness of touch.

~ Andrew Robertson -

This film displays a deftness of touch.

~ Andrew Robertson -

A mixed bag, as while Everett the actor masterfully evokes the mournful mix of decadence and decay of the last years of Wilde, Everett the filmmaker is, like so many before him, too much in love with the brilliant old rogue for his own good.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A mixed bag, as while Everett the actor masterfully evokes the mournful mix of decadence and decay of the last years of Wilde, Everett the filmmaker is, like so many before him, too much in love with the brilliant old rogue for his own good.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Lazarov lets his tale unfold gradually like a gentle thaw

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Lazarov lets his tale unfold gradually like a gentle thaw

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The story expands beyond the conventions of a Boys Own adventure

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The story expands beyond the conventions of a Boys Own adventure

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Imhoof tries to open the debate out to consider the unsavoury economics of the situation, with the personal touchstone ensuring that his film retains a character of its own that marks it out from others on the same subject.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Imhoof tries to open the debate out to consider the unsavoury economics of the situation, with the personal touchstone ensuring that his film retains a character of its own that marks it out from others on the same subject.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

It's hard to be tough on a film as warm-hearted as this one is in spirit - like Callahan, it's trying hard even when it fails.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

It's hard to be tough on a film as warm-hearted as this one is in spirit - like Callahan, it's trying hard even when it fails.

~ 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 -

There's an impressive range of mouthwatering dishes on display, constantly being adapted and upgraded.

~ Jennie Kermode -

There's an impressive range of mouthwatering dishes on display, constantly being adapted and upgraded.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The film's attempt at softcore titillation fails; it's like a tacky home movie, masquerading as social comment.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The film's attempt at softcore titillation fails; it's like a tacky home movie, masquerading as social comment.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The main horror element is a deep psychological manipulation that stays with you for days afterwards.

~ Chris -

The main horror element is a deep psychological manipulation that stays with you for days afterwards.

~ Chris -

The screenplay written by the filmmaker and Andrea Piva is a proper masterwork, from the basic plotting to the intelligent, insightful dialogue.

~ Marko Stojiljkovic -

From the start, there is something different about this film.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Despite the anger at the unfairness of what has gone before, this is ultimately a warm-hearted, life-affirming film.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It is a ride, okay, and it is a bit nauseating and therefore not sterile.

~ Marko Stojiljkovic -

It’s also striking to think that when Leila is looking forward into the future, she is already, in some senses, looking at our recent past, which only reinforces the sense of the cyclical and ongoing nature of her themes.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Thorne still comes across as being at the stage where many aspects of her work are experimental. She’s yet to settle into her style.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The characters work well...but there’s never quite enough energy to events.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Ahmed doesn’t need to include war footage for us to feel its weight and understand its shadow.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The colour elements prove all the more striking when in contrast to black and white.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The beautiful cinematography, the bluesy jazz score and the gentle pace of the film are beguiling, but Masciari makes sure that we don’t lose sight of the ridiculous.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Shot over 17 years, it mingles intimate personal moments with visceral concert footage, its musical sequences knitted together with some of the best editing you’re likely to see this year.

~ Jennie Kermode -

History comes alive in the voices of those who remember it.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The choice of hand-drawn animation and its ability to demonstrate a magical realism allows the film to find the right distance from what is being depicted.

~ Richard Mowe -

Successfully finds insight and social commentary

~ Jeremy Mathews -

The pace of the action helps Handal to pack a lot in and his framing is inventive.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A Teacher is not the most finely crafted film, but it is a cri de cœur.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The filmmaker and her crew deserve a lot of credit for even managing to capture this lifestyle – not to mention following it for five years.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Breslin, as so often, is the standout.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The observational approach works against the director, slowing down proceedings and making it hard to see the wood for the trees

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Lotus may love pretty things, but he doesn’t hold back on the gore.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Having set up all the elements of a thriller, the film proceeds to untangle them in a refreshingly different and mature way.

~ Jennie Kermode -

[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 -

I Am Love is social melodrama in the best traditions of Italian cinema.

~ Chris -

Anime at its very finest - lightning paced, visually stunning, feverishly creative and overrun by a logic all its own.

~ Anton Bitel -

The action is pacy but that doesn’t mean Courvoisier skims the surface.

~ Amber Wilkinson -