There is a sense of the freshness of freedom but this a film that mainly deals in big emotions as though worried about getting down to specifics.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

There is a sense of the freshness of freedom but this a film that mainly deals in big emotions as though worried about getting down to specifics.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

This film is a shot of dayglo-coloured adrenaline to the vein, a vat of sugar poured into the eyes.

~ Owen Van Spall -

This film is a shot of dayglo-coloured adrenaline to the vein, a vat of sugar poured into the eyes.

~ Owen Van Spall -

Perfectly watchable and occasionally touching despite itself.

~ Richard Mowe -

Perfectly watchable and occasionally touching despite itself.

~ Richard Mowe -

The sadness and the courage and the ambition is here

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The sadness and the courage and the ambition is here

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Zhao is in no hurry, allowing the sense of life in Pine Ridge to seep in to the bones of the film.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Zhao is in no hurry, allowing the sense of life in Pine Ridge to seep in to the bones of the film.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

If this is romance, it's dead.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

If this is romance, it's dead.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Villeneuve sustains the knife-edge tension without a blip.

~ Richard Mowe -

Villeneuve sustains the knife-edge tension without a blip.

~ Richard Mowe -

The trouble is that the film takes great effort to counter everything that makes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's creation stimulating.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The trouble is that the film takes great effort to counter everything that makes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's creation stimulating.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Car chases and retro dialogue clog up the machinery

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Car chases and retro dialogue clog up the machinery

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Drifts dangerously close to irrelevance.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Drifts dangerously close to irrelevance.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Malick and his cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, if nothing else, deliver stunningly beautiful vistas and backdrops for his narratives and characters, yet like the characters, there seems to be something empty at its core.

~ Richard Mowe -

Malick and his cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, if nothing else, deliver stunningly beautiful vistas and backdrops for his narratives and characters, yet like the characters, there seems to be something empty at its core.

~ Richard Mowe -

The director has uncovered a wealth of archive material.

~ Richard Mowe -

The director has uncovered a wealth of archive material.

~ Richard Mowe -

This film feels fresh and real even to those of us who have been there.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This film feels fresh and real even to those of us who have been there.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Hitchcock/Truffaut has the intriguing aura of a first episode with all the questions answered easily producing 500 more to be asked.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Hitchcock/Truffaut has the intriguing aura of a first episode with all the questions answered easily producing 500 more to be asked.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Less psychological and more formulaic than his previous feature, this is still relentlessly entertaining.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Less psychological and more formulaic than his previous feature, this is still relentlessly entertaining.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The characterisation of this verdant terra incognito is decidedly old-fashioned, like a racist grandpa who insists on holding the door for ladies.

~ Andrew Robertson -

The characterisation of this verdant terra incognito is decidedly old-fashioned, like a racist grandpa who insists on holding the door for ladies.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Almereyda jumps straight into the experiment which, over half a century later, is as fascinating and timely and important as ever.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Almereyda jumps straight into the experiment which, over half a century later, is as fascinating and timely and important as ever.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The grandeur and beauty of the place is set against figures of climbers, like black ants, across a white wilderness

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The grandeur and beauty of the place is set against figures of climbers, like black ants, across a white wilderness

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

It's likely to be most appealing to people just too young to be officially allowed to see it.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It's likely to be most appealing to people just too young to be officially allowed to see it.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The film has charm, due in most parts to Shameik Moore's performance

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The film has charm, due in most parts to Shameik Moore's performance

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

This isn't a lecture about acting your age, nor is it an advert for Viagra. It's far more sentimental.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

This isn't a lecture about acting your age, nor is it an advert for Viagra. It's far more sentimental.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

This is a tense and enjoyable genre picture, and one which gets terrific central performances from all involved.

~ Robert Munro -

This is a tense and enjoyable genre picture, and one which gets terrific central performances from all involved.

~ Robert Munro -

The narrative is paced with the urgency of a thriller.

~ Richard Mowe -

The narrative is paced with the urgency of a thriller.

~ Richard Mowe -

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 -

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 -

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

~ Amber Wilkinson -

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 -