Kossakovsky takes his time to drink in the visuals and uses his camera creatively to transport us from place to place.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Kossakovsky takes his time to drink in the visuals and uses his camera creatively to transport us from place to place.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

There are fights between players, season-threatening injuries, bashful romance and inspirational team talks, but none of it feels false.

~ Robert Munro -

There are fights between players, season-threatening injuries, bashful romance and inspirational team talks, but none of it feels false.

~ Robert Munro -

The product of around four years’ filming, Town Of Runners is impressive on several levels.

~ Emma Slawinski -

The product of around four years’ filming, Town Of Runners is impressive on several levels.

~ Emma Slawinski -

A delightful experience for musos and the uninitiated alike, Searching For Sugar Man deserves to reach as wide an audience as its underdog hero eventually did himself.

~ David Graham -

A delightful experience for musos and the uninitiated alike, Searching For Sugar Man deserves to reach as wide an audience as its underdog hero eventually did himself.

~ David Graham -

The joke soon wears thin.

~ Val Kermode -

The joke soon wears thin.

~ Val Kermode -

The fact that the director is a long-time friend of Rachel means that there was a lot of trust involved when filming her work.

~ Val Kermode -

The fact that the director is a long-time friend of Rachel means that there was a lot of trust involved when filming her work.

~ Val Kermode -

This is a deserving Oscar winner and I urge you to see it.

~ Val Kermode -

This is a deserving Oscar winner and I urge you to see it.

~ Val Kermode -

There are complex machinations at work here - but there's always a sense of the surface being skimmed in favour of telling Drokova's story.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

There are complex machinations at work here - but there's always a sense of the surface being skimmed in favour of telling Drokova's story.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Yi proves adept at documenting the tactile nature of Young-Chan's relationship with the world

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Yi proves adept at documenting the tactile nature of Young-Chan's relationship with the world

~ Amber Wilkinson -

This might not seem like the most exciting piece of cinema but you'll be surprised by how quickly you find yourself rooting for its vivacious heroes.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This might not seem like the most exciting piece of cinema but you'll be surprised by how quickly you find yourself rooting for its vivacious heroes.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A real slam dunk.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A real slam dunk.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Almost certainly one of the year's best films.

~ Scott Macdonald -

Almost certainly one of the year's best films.

~ Scott Macdonald -

With no hard endorsement from any sort of doctor or a counter-argument to kick against, the assertions regarding psychiatric drugs feel dangerously flimsy.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

With no hard endorsement from any sort of doctor or a counter-argument to kick against, the assertions regarding psychiatric drugs feel dangerously flimsy.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Matthew Akers’ all-seeing documentary cleverly mimics the form of the museum’s retrospective by saving the most revealing facts about Abramovic until professional and personal context is established.

~ Sophie Monks Kaufman -

Matthew Akers’ all-seeing documentary cleverly mimics the form of the museum’s retrospective by saving the most revealing facts about Abramovic until professional and personal context is established.

~ Sophie Monks Kaufman -

The children tell us in their words and in their silence all we need to know.

~ Val Kermode -

The children tell us in their words and in their silence all we need to know.

~ Val Kermode -

This is really just a humorous device to examine a serious subject, the multiple problems of modern Italy.

~ Val Kermode -

This is really just a humorous device to examine a serious subject, the multiple problems of modern Italy.

~ Val Kermode -

Shenk gets almost unfettered acccess to Nasheed, who is refreshingly honest about the tactics he is employing to get other countries onside

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Shenk gets almost unfettered acccess to Nasheed, who is refreshingly honest about the tactics he is employing to get other countries onside

~ Amber Wilkinson -

One of the best documentaries I’ve seen in a long time.

~ Jeff Robson -

One of the best documentaries I’ve seen in a long time.

~ Jeff Robson -

Argues that what is needed is not a change in the law but a change in the way of thinking.

~ Val Kermode -

Argues that what is needed is not a change in the law but a change in the way of thinking.

~ Val Kermode -

This is not just a piece of history, it's a how-to guide with lasting relevance.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This is not just a piece of history, it's a how-to guide with lasting relevance.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Jarecki, as always, does a good job of presenting a huge amount of information in bite-size chunks.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Jarecki, as always, does a good job of presenting a huge amount of information in bite-size chunks.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

There have been bands-on-tour films before, but nothing can compare to the unbearable beauty of Heima.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

There have been bands-on-tour films before, but nothing can compare to the unbearable beauty of Heima.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Sigríður is the kind of spontaneous interviewee documentarians dream of.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Sigríður is the kind of spontaneous interviewee documentarians dream of.

~ Jennie Kermode -

DeRoche has created a documentary that's both heart-warming and illuminating.

~ Andrew Robertson -

DeRoche has created a documentary that's both heart-warming and illuminating.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Showing a remarkably firm hand for a first-time director, Gray skilfully guides us through a sea of statistics concerning those dying from the disease and archive footage and recollections of the time, while building a cast-iron case against Big Pharma.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Showing a remarkably firm hand for a first-time director, Gray skilfully guides us through a sea of statistics concerning those dying from the disease and archive footage and recollections of the time, while building a cast-iron case against Big Pharma.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The arguments are persuasive, and Balog is a charismatic presence at all times.

~ Owen Van Spall -

The arguments are persuasive, and Balog is a charismatic presence at all times.

~ Owen Van Spall -

If there is anybody who can provide insight into the lives of those long-vanished it must be Herzog.

~ Jennie Kermode -

If there is anybody who can provide insight into the lives of those long-vanished it must be Herzog.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Despite its grim subject, this is a film full of fight, with all the energy you'd expect from that.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Despite its grim subject, this is a film full of fight, with all the energy you'd expect from that.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The character of the players, the vibrant energy of the music, the faded grandeur of a city spared the vanity of restoration gives the film a unique quality.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The character of the players, the vibrant energy of the music, the faded grandeur of a city spared the vanity of restoration gives the film a unique quality.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

You'd have to be a real Grouch not to enjoy it.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

You'd have to be a real Grouch not to enjoy it.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The talking heads from the media world - PR execs, former journalists, other filmmakers - provide some of the more troubling yet fascinating insights in the documentary as to how modern corporate entities can react when they come under the spotlight.

~ Owen Van Spall -

The talking heads from the media world - PR execs, former journalists, other filmmakers - provide some of the more troubling yet fascinating insights in the documentary as to how modern corporate entities can react when they come under the spotlight.

~ Owen Van Spall -

If [Al Gore] was a school-teacher, no-one would have ever skipped class.

~ Chris -

If [Al Gore] was a school-teacher, no-one would have ever skipped class.

~ Chris -

Weiwei is such a fascinating subject that even a documentary that never seems to stray into the experimental is compelling, but white text on a black screen does not a revolution make.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Weiwei is such a fascinating subject that even a documentary that never seems to stray into the experimental is compelling, but white text on a black screen does not a revolution make.

~ Andrew Robertson -

This is a deeply personal account of life in Palestine, and also one which sends out a strong political message.

~ Val Kermode -

This is a deeply personal account of life in Palestine, and also one which sends out a strong political message.

~ Val 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 -

This is probably [Tsutsumi's] strangest film to date, its full-on, rapid fire style combining with a wild and not always coherent plot to exhaust most viewers in the first 15 minutes.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Ultimately. McClarnon’s biggest advantage lies in his cast.

~ 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 -