The Zero Theorem is a messy mélange of broad pratfalls, challenged idealism, dark satire, and expansive, indeed cosmic allegory - but it also .cannot escape being seen as a kind of Brazil vers. 2.0.

~ Anton Bitel -

The Zero Theorem is a messy mélange of broad pratfalls, challenged idealism, dark satire, and expansive, indeed cosmic allegory - but it also .cannot escape being seen as a kind of Brazil vers. 2.0.

~ Anton Bitel -

It's bold, impetuous and willing to bite off far more than it can chew. One doesn't see enough of this sort of thing these days.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It's bold, impetuous and willing to bite off far more than it can chew. One doesn't see enough of this sort of thing these days.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The absurdly marvellous timing Haden Church has with Labrèche when they discuss glass eyes or the future, makes Whitewash also wonderfully, desperately funny.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The absurdly marvellous timing Haden Church has with Labrèche when they discuss glass eyes or the future, makes Whitewash also wonderfully, desperately funny.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

We Are The Best! is a rebel yell of positivism - with exclamation mark - that brings a fuzzy warmth to all the wintry Stockholm locations.

~ Anton Bitel -

We Are The Best! is a rebel yell of positivism - with exclamation mark - that brings a fuzzy warmth to all the wintry Stockholm locations.

~ Anton Bitel -

It is a pity that with inconsequential storytelling Christian Schwochow wastes quite a bit of the story’s potential.

~ Sophie Charlotte Rieger -

It is a pity that with inconsequential storytelling Christian Schwochow wastes quite a bit of the story’s potential.

~ Sophie Charlotte Rieger -

Côté has always had a skill for subverting expectations and here he manages to slide his film from black comedy to outright horror with the smoothness of a snake.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Côté has always had a skill for subverting expectations and here he manages to slide his film from black comedy to outright horror with the smoothness of a snake.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The film's aware that it's an improbable story, so it does everything in its power to couch it as being based on a true story, but for all that it's ironically unconvincing.

~ Andrew Robertson -

The film's aware that it's an improbable story, so it does everything in its power to couch it as being based on a true story, but for all that it's ironically unconvincing.

~ Andrew Robertson -

A complex portrait of grief, Tom At The Farm is Dolan's strongest work to date, not least because of the performance he gives in the lead.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A complex portrait of grief, Tom At The Farm is Dolan's strongest work to date, not least because of the performance he gives in the lead.

~ Jennie Kermode -

As the teacher, Lindsay Burdge gives a stunning performance.

~ Jennie Kermode -

As the teacher, Lindsay Burdge gives a stunning performance.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The film is a great example of how powerful and universal small but well-crafted stories can be.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The film is a great example of how powerful and universal small but well-crafted stories can be.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

This is a film of two halves, with the half involving sweetness and light muddled and limp in comparison to its tougher, more sinister flipside, while the ending is almost unforgivably trite.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

This is a film of two halves, with the half involving sweetness and light muddled and limp in comparison to its tougher, more sinister flipside, while the ending is almost unforgivably trite.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

What is not in doubt is the raw emotion in this work - from Polley quivering with nervous energy as she watches her father read some of the more revelatory pieces of script - to the visible impact airing the family's dirty linen in public has on her sibli

~ Amber Wilkinson -

What is not in doubt is the raw emotion in this work - from Polley quivering with nervous energy as she watches her father read some of the more revelatory pieces of script - to the visible impact airing the family's dirty linen in public has on her sibli

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Not still, but gently moving.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Not still, but gently moving.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

For all that its often said "they don't make them like they used to" this is very, very close.

~ Andrew Robertson -

For all that its often said "they don't make them like they used to" this is very, very close.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Roehler casts a distinctly critical and jaundiced eye over his compatriots across three generations but he leaves room for compassion and even a touch of sentimentality.

~ Richard Mowe -

Roehler casts a distinctly critical and jaundiced eye over his compatriots across three generations but he leaves room for compassion and even a touch of sentimentality.

~ Richard Mowe -

Feels more like an exercise in personal therapy than a fully fledged film.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Feels more like an exercise in personal therapy than a fully fledged film.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Director Jonathan Gurfinkel's film rides a deeply uncomfortable societal line between misogynistic conservatism and liberation through feminism.

~ Scott Macdonald -

Director Jonathan Gurfinkel's film rides a deeply uncomfortable societal line between misogynistic conservatism and liberation through feminism.

~ Scott Macdonald -

The film’s simplicity is its strength.

~ Richard Mowe -

The film’s simplicity is its strength.

~ Richard Mowe -

Apart from Mike Eley's lustrous, lyrical cinematography, The Selfish Giant is also elevated by the central performances of Chapman and Thomas.

~ Anton Bitel -

Apart from Mike Eley's lustrous, lyrical cinematography, The Selfish Giant is also elevated by the central performances of Chapman and Thomas.

~ Anton Bitel -

This is a film that is worth looking closely at, as everything shows signs of great care and consideration, and Sanctuary is certainly worthy of it.

~ Andrew Robertson -

This is a film that is worth looking closely at, as everything shows signs of great care and consideration, and Sanctuary is certainly worthy of it.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Rosi's panorama manages to circle back, making you love humanity.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Rosi's panorama manages to circle back, making you love humanity.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Undoubtedly a classy mainstream product.

~ Jeff Robson -

Undoubtedly a classy mainstream product.

~ Jeff Robson -

Extremely engaging and frequently side-splittingly funny

~ Richard Mowe -

Extremely engaging and frequently side-splittingly funny

~ Richard Mowe -

Pluto is an oddly funny film - inhabiting as isolated a world as its titular celestial body.

~ Scott Macdonald -

Pluto is an oddly funny film - inhabiting as isolated a world as its titular celestial body.

~ Scott Macdonald -

From Coca Cola as the perfect commodity, full of metaphysical reality ("The real thing!"), to the Kinder Surprise chocolate eggs with the toy inside... Fiennes and Zizek do their best to make theoretical concepts understandable.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

From Coca Cola as the perfect commodity, full of metaphysical reality ("The real thing!"), to the Kinder Surprise chocolate eggs with the toy inside... Fiennes and Zizek do their best to make theoretical concepts understandable.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Farhadi peels away the layers with simplicity, revealing the complicated and detailed emotions which lurk very close to the surface.

~ Richard Mowe -

Farhadi peels away the layers with simplicity, revealing the complicated and detailed emotions which lurk very close to the surface.

~ Richard Mowe -

Managing for the most part to avoid the clichés of portraying the gypsy milieu, it has the stamp of authenticity.

~ Richard Mowe -

Managing for the most part to avoid the clichés of portraying the gypsy milieu, it has the stamp of authenticity.

~ Richard Mowe -

The veteran director brings more than enough to the table to make his version well worth watching.

~ David Graham -

The veteran director brings more than enough to the table to make his version well worth watching.

~ David Graham -

What is so disarming about Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive is a scarce sense of appreciation - of the vampire couple for each other and the appreciation by both of them for what is great in the world.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

What is so disarming about Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive is a scarce sense of appreciation - of the vampire couple for each other and the appreciation by both of them for what is great in the world.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Cinematographer Bergsteinn Björgúlfsson captures Iceland at its wildest and yet this is also a tale of intimacy without romanticism.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Cinematographer Bergsteinn Björgúlfsson captures Iceland at its wildest and yet this is also a tale of intimacy without romanticism.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A well-shot and occasionally sweaty run around the same old block.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A well-shot and occasionally sweaty run around the same old block.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

This apparently meandering, unfocused story conceals an acutely observed portrait of a society in flux.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This apparently meandering, unfocused story conceals an acutely observed portrait of a society in flux.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Behind the surface simplicity of a father and son road trip lurks a sharp and bitter-sweet odyssey with a strong sense of satire.

~ Richard Mowe -

Behind the surface simplicity of a father and son road trip lurks a sharp and bitter-sweet odyssey with a strong sense of satire.

~ Richard Mowe -

Each of the performances adds to the whole but it's Won-sang Park who carries the film on his increasingly damaged shoulders.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Each of the performances adds to the whole but it's Won-sang Park who carries the film on his increasingly damaged shoulders.

~ Andrew Robertson -

The film doesn’t seem to have much to say about racism, and even less about its potential links to family, class and gender – all of which hang in the background, threatening to force the filmmakers to make a more serious and challenging film.

~ Michael Pattison -

The film doesn’t seem to have much to say about racism, and even less about its potential links to family, class and gender – all of which hang in the background, threatening to force the filmmakers to make a more serious and challenging film.

~ Michael Pattison -

Nords gets an excellent performance from Konovalovs - contrasting the enjoyment of the wide open spaces of his home city at night with the stress that waits for him inside his home or school.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Nords gets an excellent performance from Konovalovs - contrasting the enjoyment of the wide open spaces of his home city at night with the stress that waits for him inside his home or school.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Intensely erotic throughout, even in the absence of what most people would think of as sexual, this feels like the culmination of a number of threads that have run throughout Kim's work.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Intensely erotic throughout, even in the absence of what most people would think of as sexual, this feels like the culmination of a number of threads that have run throughout Kim's work.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Opens your eyes to fresh fields of possibility

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Opens your eyes to fresh fields of possibility

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The documentary ultimately chronicles a provocateur in his quest against indifference and the conventions of an obscene normality.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The documentary ultimately chronicles a provocateur in his quest against indifference and the conventions of an obscene normality.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

As a personal and political masterpiece, Mephisto has few challengers.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

As a personal and political masterpiece, Mephisto has few challengers.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Fabien Constant's meticulously dashing portrait of Carine Roitfeld in Mademoiselle C works as a triple treat with style, beauty and grace.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Fabien Constant's meticulously dashing portrait of Carine Roitfeld in Mademoiselle C works as a triple treat with style, beauty and grace.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The comedy shifts and jumps with ease from the wintry beach to the pool and into our hearts due to the acute timing of the performances.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The comedy shifts and jumps with ease from the wintry beach to the pool and into our hearts due to the acute timing of the performances.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

This is a serious and entertaining character study - stripping down the lives of Soho and Raymond - that has the looks and acting talent to win over a crowd.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

This is a serious and entertaining character study - stripping down the lives of Soho and Raymond - that has the looks and acting talent to win over a crowd.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Shuttling back and forth between the families, Like Father, Like Son scrutinises words, deeds, allegiances.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Shuttling back and forth between the families, Like Father, Like Son scrutinises words, deeds, allegiances.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

A sweet and relatable film with an evocative setting, ultimately very hard to dislike.

~ Owen Van Spall -

A sweet and relatable film with an evocative setting, ultimately very hard to dislike.

~ Owen Van Spall -

Krikodas should be wary of letting his style run rampant over material that could have been both resonant and disturbing given some restraint.

~ David Graham -

Krikodas should be wary of letting his style run rampant over material that could have been both resonant and disturbing given some restraint.

~ David Graham -

The film, like their trip, is intermittently interesting but the journey becomes wearing.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The film, like their trip, is intermittently interesting but the journey becomes wearing.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A movie that lets you be the judge of inappropriate behaviors and risks worth taking.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

A movie that lets you be the judge of inappropriate behaviors and risks worth taking.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Jealousy is a carefully constructed film with plenty of family ties for the director.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Jealousy is a carefully constructed film with plenty of family ties for the director.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The pace may seem deliberate but the Coens obviously want us to uncover the character's layers gently rather than him being delivered ready-made.

~ Richard Mowe -

The pace may seem deliberate but the Coens obviously want us to uncover the character's layers gently rather than him being delivered ready-made.

~ Richard Mowe -

Ilo Ilo is a quietly assured first feature that marks the director out as a bright new talent.

~ Owen Van Spall -

Ilo Ilo is a quietly assured first feature that marks the director out as a bright new talent.

~ Owen Van Spall -

A still, painterly vision in silvery monochrome - capturing the quiet contemplation of the two women and simultaneously encouraging the same on the part of the viewer.

~ Rebecca Naughten -

A still, painterly vision in silvery monochrome - capturing the quiet contemplation of the two women and simultaneously encouraging the same on the part of the viewer.

~ Rebecca Naughten -

Although other films have dealt with the subject of euthanasia none so far has looked at the emotional difficulties of the perpetrator.

~ Richard Mowe -

Although other films have dealt with the subject of euthanasia none so far has looked at the emotional difficulties of the perpetrator.

~ Richard Mowe -

For Hult, home is a place where you can be yourself and where you'll always be welcome, no change required.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

For Hult, home is a place where you can be yourself and where you'll always be welcome, no change required.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Though each filmmaker provides typical servings of his own respective style in responding to the brief at hand, this portmanteau piece is predictably uneven.

~ Michael Pattison -

Though each filmmaker provides typical servings of his own respective style in responding to the brief at hand, this portmanteau piece is predictably uneven.

~ Michael Pattison -

A poetic and tense debut that explores not so much the coming of age as the coming of mortality.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A poetic and tense debut that explores not so much the coming of age as the coming of mortality.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Sorrentino dares to tread where the great have gone before and leaves his own distinctive mark.

~ Richard Mowe -

Sorrentino dares to tread where the great have gone before and leaves his own distinctive mark.

~ Richard Mowe -

Wong Kar Wai knows how to frame faces like no other, with embroidered collars, white straw fedoras, a rowdy monkey, cotton flowers and words escaping lips that are like song.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Wong Kar Wai knows how to frame faces like no other, with embroidered collars, white straw fedoras, a rowdy monkey, cotton flowers and words escaping lips that are like song.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

A flowing, lyrical film, at times startlingly beautiful, The Golden Dream hypnotises the viewer with its constant movement, its unceasing rhythm.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A flowing, lyrical film, at times startlingly beautiful, The Golden Dream hypnotises the viewer with its constant movement, its unceasing rhythm.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Gloria has the instincts of an eagle and the courage to fly.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Gloria has the instincts of an eagle and the courage to fly.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Archambault has succeeded in making a film with her subjects and not simply about them – imperfections and all, while the musical element serves her purpose perfectly.

~ Richard Mowe -

Archambault has succeeded in making a film with her subjects and not simply about them – imperfections and all, while the musical element serves her purpose perfectly.

~ Richard Mowe -

You can enter through the objects, like an Eames chair or three pairs of Ray Bans, bought online. Or through the religious conflict inherent in a bacon bagel.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

You can enter through the objects, like an Eames chair or three pairs of Ray Bans, bought online. Or through the religious conflict inherent in a bacon bagel.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Finsterwalder gets remarkable performances out of her first-rate ensemble.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Finsterwalder gets remarkable performances out of her first-rate ensemble.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Refreshing and breezy - but also forgotten almost as soon as it has wafted by.

~ Anton Bitel -

Refreshing and breezy - but also forgotten almost as soon as it has wafted by.

~ Anton Bitel -

What comes over very strongly in the film is that Vivienne is an endearing mixture of the anarchic and the down to earth.

~ Val Kermode -

What comes over very strongly in the film is that Vivienne is an endearing mixture of the anarchic and the down to earth.

~ Val Kermode -

I wished for Billy Wilder's spirit from The Apartment to take over the tone just a little bit.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

I wished for Billy Wilder's spirit from The Apartment to take over the tone just a little bit.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The Dirties... has two leads who work well with each other and whose naturalism and likeability draws us in

~ Owen Van Spall -

The Dirties... has two leads who work well with each other and whose naturalism and likeability draws us in

~ Owen Van Spall -

Szabó's film - co-written with Andrea Vészits - is concerned with the way in which, after a major switch in a political system, there is a period in which it takes people time to find their voices.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Szabó's film - co-written with Andrea Vészits - is concerned with the way in which, after a major switch in a political system, there is a period in which it takes people time to find their voices.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

It's hard to know who exactly will willingly sign up to watch quite so much sex couched in quite such a disturbing set up.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

It's hard to know who exactly will willingly sign up to watch quite so much sex couched in quite such a disturbing set up.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Brontis really does steal the show, offering a multi-layered, sensitive performance that begs the question why we haven't seen more of him over the years.

~ David Graham -

Brontis really does steal the show, offering a multi-layered, sensitive performance that begs the question why we haven't seen more of him over the years.

~ David Graham -

McConaughey's performance is a tour de force.

~ Jennie Kermode -

McConaughey's performance is a tour de force.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A powerful piece of work, beautifully depicted.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A powerful piece of work, beautifully depicted.

~ Jennie Kermode -

If you didn't know this film was made in North Korea, you could be forgiven for thinking it is a South Korean parody of a propaganda movie.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

If you didn't know this film was made in North Korea, you could be forgiven for thinking it is a South Korean parody of a propaganda movie.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A complex, multi-faceted portrait of the director's home region of Galicia, in north-west Spain, with imagery that is awe-inspiring in the proper sense of the term.

~ Rebecca Naughten -

A complex, multi-faceted portrait of the director's home region of Galicia, in north-west Spain, with imagery that is awe-inspiring in the proper sense of the term.

~ Rebecca Naughten -

The more problematic aspects of the film stem from a narrative that cannot sustain the inventiveness of the central conceit and which peters out before the end.

~ Rebecca Naughten -

The more problematic aspects of the film stem from a narrative that cannot sustain the inventiveness of the central conceit and which peters out before the end.

~ Rebecca Naughten -

Rok Biček's film shows that the drive to go against the grain can have as much to do with running with the pack as with embracing individuality.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Rok Biček's film shows that the drive to go against the grain can have as much to do with running with the pack as with embracing individuality.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

In some ways she may be a monster, but Netzer and co-writer Radulescu find a path for Cornelia that steers clear of outright condemnation. Her tragic devotion to her son is so absolute that she retains our pity.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

In some ways she may be a monster, but Netzer and co-writer Radulescu find a path for Cornelia that steers clear of outright condemnation. Her tragic devotion to her son is so absolute that she retains our pity.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Katz keeps the suspense simmering masterfully, alternating between building dread and releasing tension through uncomfortable mirth

~ David Graham -

Katz keeps the suspense simmering masterfully, alternating between building dread and releasing tension through uncomfortable mirth

~ David Graham -

Although couched in the realities of conflict, Wakamatsu is equally, if not more, concerned with the little horrors caused by organised, countrywide violence.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Although couched in the realities of conflict, Wakamatsu is equally, if not more, concerned with the little horrors caused by organised, countrywide violence.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Everyone is allowed to over-act, not least herself, who runs the gamut of wet-eyed self-pity to hysteria.

~ Richard Mowe -

Everyone is allowed to over-act, not least herself, who runs the gamut of wet-eyed self-pity to hysteria.

~ Richard Mowe -

An inward, austere examination of ideas of madness, empathy and the creative impulse.

~ Jeff Robson -

An inward, austere examination of ideas of madness, empathy and the creative impulse.

~ Jeff Robson -

The director's uncompromising approach and rigour pulls us along at least until the half way point when the pace begins to falter and its lack of obvious intentions starts to grate.

~ Richard Mowe -

The director's uncompromising approach and rigour pulls us along at least until the half way point when the pace begins to falter and its lack of obvious intentions starts to grate.

~ Richard Mowe -

Visually arresting, impressively taut and enjoyably idiosyncratic.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Visually arresting, impressively taut and enjoyably idiosyncratic.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The story-telling is low key and muted, as befits the characters, but the unremitting sense of melancholia weighs heavily on the film and the viewer.

~ Richard Mowe -

The story-telling is low key and muted, as befits the characters, but the unremitting sense of melancholia weighs heavily on the film and the viewer.

~ Richard Mowe -

An affecting, unusual and intensely personal film, although it works more effectively on an emotional level than a fact-disseminating one.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

An affecting, unusual and intensely personal film, although it works more effectively on an emotional level than a fact-disseminating one.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Definitely one of this year’s most accomplished thrillers.

~ David Graham -

Definitely one of this year’s most accomplished thrillers.

~ David Graham -

What comes out in the film seems like the very essence of a rock life, though Baker demands to be called a jazz, as opposed to a rock, musician.

~ Owen Van Spall -

What comes out in the film seems like the very essence of a rock life, though Baker demands to be called a jazz, as opposed to a rock, musician.

~ Owen Van Spall -

While the tension ratchets up, there are rockets, redemption, reams of secrets.

~ Andrew Robertson -

While the tension ratchets up, there are rockets, redemption, reams of secrets.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Parents whose eight year olds have just gone crazy watching their first World Cup would be well advised to take them along, as they'll probably love it.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Parents whose eight year olds have just gone crazy watching their first World Cup would be well advised to take them along, as they'll probably love it.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Zaman is not looking to rush to judgement of his characters but to explore what makes them tick and give a feel for how traditions get passed down the generations.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Zaman is not looking to rush to judgement of his characters but to explore what makes them tick and give a feel for how traditions get passed down the generations.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The precision of Claire Denis' perplexities, the ardent blows that fire at the heart and the head, are unequaled in her film Bastards (Les Salauds).

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The precision of Claire Denis' perplexities, the ardent blows that fire at the heart and the head, are unequaled in her film Bastards (Les Salauds).

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The Armstrong Lie confirms Gibney’s position as one of the US’ foremost documentarians.

~ Owen Van Spall -

The Armstrong Lie confirms Gibney’s position as one of the US’ foremost documentarians.

~ Owen Van Spall -

Drawing from real life events, Tanic's docudrama gains its power from the emotionally stirring scenario and all-round naturalistic performances, which feel infused with greater honesty given that a version of this nightmare has been played out in real lif

~ Owen Van Spall -

Drawing from real life events, Tanic's docudrama gains its power from the emotionally stirring scenario and all-round naturalistic performances, which feel infused with greater honesty given that a version of this nightmare has been played out in real lif

~ Owen Van Spall -

The abiding sense is one of a gentle progress, an unfolding as of leaves, shadows dappled sliding slowly afternoonwards.

~ Andrew Robertson -

The abiding sense is one of a gentle progress, an unfolding as of leaves, shadows dappled sliding slowly afternoonwards.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Zacharias Kunuk's achievement with his mainly untrained actors is astonishing. Even the sexual chemistry works.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Zacharias Kunuk's achievement with his mainly untrained actors is astonishing. Even the sexual chemistry works.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The film trundles along quite merrily without much plot, easily driven by the tension of the original premise.

~ Max Crawford -

The film trundles along quite merrily without much plot, easily driven by the tension of the original premise.

~ Max Crawford -

Unquestionably and understandably harrowing, in places unbearably so, this reflection upon acts of murder, genocide and torture, told by the perpetrators themselves, is a masterpiece.

~ Merlin Harries -

Unquestionably and understandably harrowing, in places unbearably so, this reflection upon acts of murder, genocide and torture, told by the perpetrators themselves, is a masterpiece.

~ Merlin Harries -

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 -

Manizha Bakhtari may not be a household name but after watching Natalie Halla’s documentary you’re likely to think she ought to be.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Sung’s own camera plays tricks, placing objects too close in the foreground so that parts of an image are out of focus, like an incomplete memory.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The concept, narrative, dialogue, cinematography and action sequences are elements of Scanners that can't be faulted.

~ Donald Munro -

The film hangs on Pemberton’s performance, and he imbues Doug with a sweetness that makes us feel for him despite his deeply misguided actions.

~ Jennie Kermode -

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 -

A very effective piece of low budget storytelling.

~ 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 -

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 -

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 -