Powerful and thorough.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Powerful and thorough.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

No Other Land brings humanity and particularity to a topic that is too often discussed in the abstract.

~ Jennie Kermode -

No Other Land brings humanity and particularity to a topic that is too often discussed in the abstract.

~ Jennie Kermode -

There are extreme and moderate views here, which recall many a social media debate about everything from slavery street names to flags.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

There are extreme and moderate views here, which recall many a social media debate about everything from slavery street names to flags.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

By night, Shreyank Nanjappa’s inspired sound design captures the furious beating of wings and, layered on top of them, the shuffling and chirrupping and all the curious calls of the moths as they rush in to land.

~ Jennie Kermode -

By night, Shreyank Nanjappa’s inspired sound design captures the furious beating of wings and, layered on top of them, the shuffling and chirrupping and all the curious calls of the moths as they rush in to land.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Hairabedian patiently captures all this with an intimacy that stems from trust, with Vrej viewing her and the camera increasingly as a confidante as time passes.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Hairabedian patiently captures all this with an intimacy that stems from trust, with Vrej viewing her and the camera increasingly as a confidante as time passes.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Everything about El Moudir’s film is unusual, from the structure to the mood.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Everything about El Moudir’s film is unusual, from the structure to the mood.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

As the directors patiently capture the lives of Workinesh, Motto and Beti, a shared theme of familial hardship emerges.

~ Sergiu Inizian -

As the directors patiently capture the lives of Workinesh, Motto and Beti, a shared theme of familial hardship emerges.

~ Sergiu Inizian -

The Flats gives voice to people who have lived most of their lives feeling silenced, but it’s all the little details it captures in passing that speak loudest.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The Flats gives voice to people who have lived most of their lives feeling silenced, but it’s all the little details it captures in passing that speak loudest.

~ Jennie Kermode -

If it sounds like an uncanny valley from the start, Block and Riesewieck illustrate just how bizarre and, sometimes, downright creepy this can be using genuine exchanges that have occurred.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

If it sounds like an uncanny valley from the start, Block and Riesewieck illustrate just how bizarre and, sometimes, downright creepy this can be using genuine exchanges that have occurred.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Most impressive for distilling mountains of archival footage, with the help of the trusty talking-head interview.

~ Jeremy Mathews -

Most impressive for distilling mountains of archival footage, with the help of the trusty talking-head interview.

~ Jeremy Mathews -

For the most part the film comes across as a celebration of this moment as a light in the darkness, but it will likely leave some viewers additionally uncomfortable.

~ Jennie Kermode -

For the most part the film comes across as a celebration of this moment as a light in the darkness, but it will likely leave some viewers additionally uncomfortable.

~ Jennie Kermode -

An intriguing piece of work which probes the psychology of contestant, producers and viewers alike.

~ Jennie Kermode -

An intriguing piece of work which probes the psychology of contestant, producers and viewers alike.

~ Jennie Kermode -

De Reyes film celebrates family bonds, while also noting how those ties can bind youngsters’ ambitions.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

De Reyes film celebrates family bonds, while also noting how those ties can bind youngsters’ ambitions.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

It's entertaining enough if you're familiar.

~ Andrew Robertson -

It's entertaining enough if you're familiar.

~ Andrew Robertson -

The documentarians invested several years in the project and it pays off in this impressively balanced assessment of a conflict over land that has been exacerbated by climate change and drought.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The documentarians invested several years in the project and it pays off in this impressively balanced assessment of a conflict over land that has been exacerbated by climate change and drought.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

As the surveys continue, different ideas of happiness emerge along with moments of shared humanity.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

As the surveys continue, different ideas of happiness emerge along with moments of shared humanity.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

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 -