Shawky allows his characters to sit firmly in the driving seat.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Shawky allows his characters to sit firmly in the driving seat.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

This is joyful, beautiful, up-lifting - and bleak too, a clarion call to direct climate action at the personal and the political levels.

~ Andrew Robertson -

This is joyful, beautiful, up-lifting - and bleak too, a clarion call to direct climate action at the personal and the political levels.

~ Andrew Robertson -

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 -

More than Aretha, more than anyone, she became the figure of change for the black community

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

More than Aretha, more than anyone, she became the figure of change for the black community

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

My pick for the greatest film ever made.

~ Scott Macdonald -

My pick for the greatest film ever made.

~ Scott Macdonald -

There are just too many movie references and homage to the likes of David Lynch in this noirish thriller to make it anything other than an over-derivative exercise in style over substance.

~ Richard Mowe -

There are just too many movie references and homage to the likes of David Lynch in this noirish thriller to make it anything other than an over-derivative exercise in style over substance.

~ Richard Mowe -

It's a heartbreaking film. I look at Tokyo Story, and I see moments of my own life, or potential future life reflected.

~ Scott Macdonald -

It's a heartbreaking film. I look at Tokyo Story, and I see moments of my own life, or potential future life reflected.

~ Scott Macdonald -

Offering the comfort and reassurance of a Seventies children's TV programme, it takes us into the heat of darkness in a bumbling, offbeat way.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Offering the comfort and reassurance of a Seventies children's TV programme, it takes us into the heat of darkness in a bumbling, offbeat way.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Honoré handles the strands with considerable agility and admirable lack of cliché or sentimentality employing camerawork that is clean and uncluttered.

~ Richard Mowe -

Honoré handles the strands with considerable agility and admirable lack of cliché or sentimentality employing camerawork that is clean and uncluttered.

~ Richard Mowe -

Solo is an exercise in retroactive continuity, and its ability to create peril is itself imperilled by what we know to follow after.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Solo is an exercise in retroactive continuity, and its ability to create peril is itself imperilled by what we know to follow after.

~ Andrew Robertson -

The training sessions begin to pall - for the audience as much for the participants - but once the action moves to Norway, the pace and the scenery pick up considerably.

~ Richard Mowe -

The training sessions begin to pall - for the audience as much for the participants - but once the action moves to Norway, the pace and the scenery pick up considerably.

~ Richard Mowe -

Some may be dissuaded by the painstaking pace yet the tone manages to be both humorous and heart-rending at the same time.

~ Richard Mowe -

Some may be dissuaded by the painstaking pace yet the tone manages to be both humorous and heart-rending at the same time.

~ Richard Mowe -

The exchanges all have the ring of truth.

~ Richard Mowe -

The exchanges all have the ring of truth.

~ Richard Mowe -

Playing a game for your life is a beautiful metaphor. Of course, it wouldn't have been the same in a squash court.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Playing a game for your life is a beautiful metaphor. Of course, it wouldn't have been the same in a squash court.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

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 -

Showing a keen understanding of the nature of sex work and of life on the streets, Vidal-Naquet carries us through several days in Léo's life in a observational, non-judgemental way.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Showing a keen understanding of the nature of sex work and of life on the streets, Vidal-Naquet carries us through several days in Léo's life in a observational, non-judgemental way.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The insightful and intimate interviews Wenders conducted with the Pope are interspersed with footage of his extensive travels that show the meaning of his words.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The insightful and intimate interviews Wenders conducted with the Pope are interspersed with footage of his extensive travels that show the meaning of his words.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Thumbs up here for graphics that are colourful, inventive and always interesting.

~ Jane Fae -

Thumbs up here for graphics that are colourful, inventive and always interesting.

~ Jane Fae -

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 -

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 -

This is immersive cinema, designed to be experienced rather than just watched.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This is immersive cinema, designed to be experienced rather than just watched.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Glavonic, who has a background in documentary, has crafted a moody and broody piece, built less on onscreen incident than the oppressive atmosphere and offscreen imaginings.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Glavonic, who has a background in documentary, has crafted a moody and broody piece, built less on onscreen incident than the oppressive atmosphere and offscreen imaginings.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

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 -

This isn't the kind of film that's destined to win mainstream awards but Paradis' performance deserves to be remembered.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This isn't the kind of film that's destined to win mainstream awards but Paradis' performance deserves to be remembered.

~ Jennie Kermode -

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 -

Elusively impenetrable stuff that only loosely can be described as cinema.

~ Richard Mowe -

Elusively impenetrable stuff that only loosely can be described as cinema.

~ Richard Mowe -

Dillon makes a fair fist of the role of Jack.

~ Richard Mowe -

Dillon makes a fair fist of the role of Jack.

~ Richard Mowe -

Newcomer Tardiolo is splendid in the lead.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Newcomer Tardiolo is splendid in the lead.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The plot is thin... but the highly choreographed songs make up for it big-style.

~ Gabriella Trybalska -

The plot is thin... but the highly choreographed songs make up for it big-style.

~ Gabriella Trybalska -

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 -

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 -

Because Simone is so one-note, it's hard to fully swallow the lengths Marcello ultimately goes to in order to shield him.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Because Simone is so one-note, it's hard to fully swallow the lengths Marcello ultimately goes to in order to shield him.

~ 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 -

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 -

Many of the stories are very similar but they are all compelling.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Many of the stories are very similar but they are all compelling.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Jean-Paul Rappeneau has taken the spirit of Edmond Rostand's play and filled it to overflowing with energy, rumbustiousness, eloquence and panache.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Jean-Paul Rappeneau has taken the spirit of Edmond Rostand's play and filled it to overflowing with energy, rumbustiousness, eloquence and panache.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Beautifully shot and articulated.

~ Richard Mowe -

Beautifully shot and articulated.

~ Richard Mowe -

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 -

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 -

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 -

The film revolves around a simple plot, superbly executed.

~ Ben Sillis -

The film revolves around a simple plot, superbly executed.

~ Ben Sillis -

Green's richly detailed documentary is a portrait of a remarkable woman, a love letter to early cinema and a fascinating detective story all in one.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Green's richly detailed documentary is a portrait of a remarkable woman, a love letter to early cinema and a fascinating detective story all in one.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The look is as unforgettable as the power that drives your emotional response.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The look is as unforgettable as the power that drives your emotional response.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

They say it's the hope that kills you and Dvortsevoy lets enough light in to emphasise her plight.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

They say it's the hope that kills you and Dvortsevoy lets enough light in to emphasise her plight.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Higashide will no doubt attract most attention, impressive in his ability to inhabit two very different characters, yet it's Karata who is the power at the heart of the film.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Higashide will no doubt attract most attention, impressive in his ability to inhabit two very different characters, yet it's Karata who is the power at the heart of the film.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Joe Penna's thriller is as lean and spare as life up in the Arctic wilderness.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Joe Penna's thriller is as lean and spare as life up in the Arctic wilderness.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Wittily scripted and inventively directed.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Wittily scripted and inventively directed.

~ Jennie Kermode -

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 -

It should come as no surprise, given the kitsch and extravagant props and costumes, that the film has been co-produced by Pedro Almodovar and his brother Augustin.

~ Richard Mowe -

It should come as no surprise, given the kitsch and extravagant props and costumes, that the film has been co-produced by Pedro Almodovar and his brother Augustin.

~ Richard Mowe -

Truth is found in detail and gesture.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Truth is found in detail and gesture.

~ 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 -

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 -

With so much going on the only shame is that at this length the pirouettes in various directions are so brief, giving us a taste for ideas that are begging to be dug into further.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

While the film is generally a delight, the increasingly surreal third act can be hard to track.

~ Antoni Konieczny -

A patient, affecting study of human connection in unusual circumstances

~ Antoni Konieczny -

The irreverent score, the gothic art direction, and Mario Tosi’s kaleidoscopic, slithering cinematography coalesce into something mesmeric.

~ Antoni Konieczny -

Like its subject, the film is a fusion of styles.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Fiennes is lean in look and in performance, bringing an intensity that proves compelling.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

An overflowing life is presented to us through archival interviews and film clips, and most revealingly through on-camera insights from O’Brien herself.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The anxious impact of the airport is also brought home to us by the crowded nature of the animation, its expressionist rendering emphasising the strangeness of this environment.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

For better or worse, Antonioni’s got his master stylist hat on here, even if it sometimes obscures his vision.

~ Antoni Konieczny -

Feels like a bite-sized companion piece to The Invasion

~ Amber Wilkinson -

There’s a good deal of depth and nuance to these relationships as Blichfeldt uses them to illustrate how a society which makes women dependent on men magnifies ever petty disagreement and sets them at odds with one another.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The cinematography is deliberately downbeat. The narrative meanders as its hero does.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Anno, while acknowledging the history through the use of archive and via her interviewees, firmly accentuates the positives and the strides that have been made.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

There’s no room here for the simple morality of the average horror film.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Though parts of the film are repetitive and others don’t quite knit together, there are some real gems hidden in there.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The plot is not the film’s strongest point, but it functions well enough as a device through which to explore a troubled relationship.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Pure joy from start to finish.

~ Anton Bitel -

Fiennes is lean in look and in performance, bringing an intensity that proves compelling.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

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

~ 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 -

An overflowing life is presented to us through archival interviews and film clips, and most revealingly through on-camera insights from O’Brien herself.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -