An affectionate, touching piece.

~ Darren Amner -

An affectionate, touching piece.

~ Darren Amner -

The performances have a depth and understanding that surpasses surface glamour.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The performances have a depth and understanding that surpasses surface glamour.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The gritty, flickering, b&w picture looks really cool, but it doesn't capture anything of interest.

~ Gator MacReady -

The gritty, flickering, b&w picture looks really cool, but it doesn't capture anything of interest.

~ Gator MacReady -

Violent Summer is not an epic wartime romance. It's a smaller, quieter film, reflecting people's motives, actions and truths.

~ David Stanners -

Violent Summer is not an epic wartime romance. It's a smaller, quieter film, reflecting people's motives, actions and truths.

~ David Stanners -

The film lacks heart, although covers the ground adequately.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The film lacks heart, although covers the ground adequately.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A lighthearted, slightly flimsy little film, which is funny and nicely executed.

~ David Stanners -

A lighthearted, slightly flimsy little film, which is funny and nicely executed.

~ David Stanners -

Trauma simply fails to engage the viewer's interest.

~ Keith Hennessey Brown -

Trauma simply fails to engage the viewer's interest.

~ Keith Hennessey Brown -

The film deviates from more caricatured tales of domestic brutality.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The film deviates from more caricatured tales of domestic brutality.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

As coincidence after coincidence piles up the plot becomes somewhat predictable.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

As coincidence after coincidence piles up the plot becomes somewhat predictable.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Director Sudhir Mishra has taken on more than he can chew.

~ Trinity -

Director Sudhir Mishra has taken on more than he can chew.

~ Trinity -

There's scarcely a moment to fault here.

~ Keith Hennessey Brown -

There's scarcely a moment to fault here.

~ Keith Hennessey Brown -

Through the use of quirky art work, animation, a barrage of facts and figures, plus an incredibly dry wit, Spurlock shines a light on America's attitudes to weight gain.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Through the use of quirky art work, animation, a barrage of facts and figures, plus an incredibly dry wit, Spurlock shines a light on America's attitudes to weight gain.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Simultaneously comical and unsettling.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Simultaneously comical and unsettling.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

It feels alienated by the nature of its concerns, as if locked in a fancy dress trunk.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

It feels alienated by the nature of its concerns, as if locked in a fancy dress trunk.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Almost everything about the film just feels right.

~ Keith Hennessey Brown -

Almost everything about the film just feels right.

~ Keith Hennessey Brown -

What action exists is exciting.

~ Gator MacReady -

What action exists is exciting.

~ Gator MacReady -

Odoul's vision has a unique quality of strangeness and Bonnetblanc's performance is extraordinary.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Odoul's vision has a unique quality of strangeness and Bonnetblanc's performance is extraordinary.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Fails to deliver anything beyond the prodigious letting of blood.

~ Scott Macdonald -

Fails to deliver anything beyond the prodigious letting of blood.

~ Scott Macdonald -

The characters are neatly drawn and believable.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The characters are neatly drawn and believable.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Peralta has a real talent for making historic and contemporary documentaries.

~ Gator MacReady -

Peralta has a real talent for making historic and contemporary documentaries.

~ Gator MacReady -

This is a study in solitude and to say the film is subtle is an understatement.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

This is a study in solitude and to say the film is subtle is an understatement.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The editing is sloppy, the message blurred, or non-existent.

~ Gator MacReady -

The editing is sloppy, the message blurred, or non-existent.

~ Gator MacReady -

Ye Lou's visual style is that of a photographer's romantic vision, yet without flair.

~ Scott Macdonald -

Ye Lou's visual style is that of a photographer's romantic vision, yet without flair.

~ Scott Macdonald -

The design of the film is straightforward and yet cleverly skewed.

~ Scott Macdonald -

The design of the film is straightforward and yet cleverly skewed.

~ Scott Macdonald -

This is difficult, challenging viewing and a film of considerable bravery from Leigh and his performers.

~ Keith Hennessey Brown -

You know you're watching a dull movie when you begin to undress the female cast in your imagination, even if they're not that hot.

~ Gator MacReady -

You know you're watching a dull movie when you begin to undress the female cast in your imagination, even if they're not that hot.

~ Gator MacReady -

Made on a budget of $7000, this is an incredible achievement.

~ George Williamson -

Made on a budget of $7000, this is an incredible achievement.

~ George Williamson -

What should have been a delicate, bittersweet comedy becomes a long-winded caper that fails to capitalise on its raw materials.

~ David Stanners -

What should have been a delicate, bittersweet comedy becomes a long-winded caper that fails to capitalise on its raw materials.

~ David Stanners -

An undulating account of one man's spirit and determination to make an impossibly idealistic vision a concrete reality.

~ David Stanners -

An undulating account of one man's spirit and determination to make an impossibly idealistic vision a concrete reality.

~ David Stanners -

The pace is slow, and at times lethargic.

~ David Stanners -

The pace is slow, and at times lethargic.

~ David Stanners -

A bit biased.

~ Gator MacReady -

As an example of yuk cinema, this is a serious piece of work. There is no profound message, except that living alone with nature does your head in.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

As an example of yuk cinema, this is a serious piece of work. There is no profound message, except that living alone with nature does your head in.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

A film both extreme and tender, yet tremendously entertaining.

~ Iain Macleod -

A film both extreme and tender, yet tremendously entertaining.

~ Iain Macleod -

A good-looking, moderately distracting Korean riff on Blade Runner.

~ Keith Hennessey Brown -

A good-looking, moderately distracting Korean riff on Blade Runner.

~ Keith Hennessey Brown -

It's a straightforward enough tale, given life and zest by the performances.

~ Scott Macdonald -

It's a straightforward enough tale, given life and zest by the performances.

~ Scott Macdonald -

The film has a huge heart.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The film has a huge heart.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Though the story does drag in a few places, so do the lives that the documentary endeavours to encapsulate.

~ The Dude -

Though the story does drag in a few places, so do the lives that the documentary endeavours to encapsulate.

~ The Dude -

A passionate, almost angry look at events often forgotten in world history.

~ Trinity -

A passionate, almost angry look at events often forgotten in world history.

~ Trinity -

Bale's performance is superb, his devotion to the role scary.

~ Josh Morrall -

Bale's performance is superb, his devotion to the role scary.

~ Josh Morrall -

Rather than attempting to dissect the story, it is easier to surrender to the lyrical qualities, the poetry, exquisite cinematography and poignant music.

~ David Stanners -

Rather than attempting to dissect the story, it is easier to surrender to the lyrical qualities, the poetry, exquisite cinematography and poignant music.

~ David Stanners -

Los Muertos has a certain cold beauty.

~ Scott Macdonald -

Los Muertos has a certain cold beauty.

~ Scott Macdonald -

The performances are delightful.

~ Scott Macdonald -

The performances are delightful.

~ Scott Macdonald -

Much of the impact of the film comes from cues, visual and aural, away from the action.

~ Trinity -

Much of the impact of the film comes from cues, visual and aural, away from the action.

~ Trinity -

The performances are flawless, the story laced with black humour.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The performances are flawless, the story laced with black humour.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

It's almost hagiographic at times, with insufficient distance, or authorial comment present, to establish a distinction between the distorted, hateful, misogynistic views of the two men and those of the film and its creators.

~ Keith Hennessey Brown -

It's almost hagiographic at times, with insufficient distance, or authorial comment present, to establish a distinction between the distorted, hateful, misogynistic views of the two men and those of the film and its creators.

~ Keith Hennessey Brown -

Every cinematic trick in the book to make Hero's violence as sexy as a car commercial

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Every cinematic trick in the book to make Hero's violence as sexy as a car commercial

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Debut director Liu Fendou has done a magnificent job.

~ David Stanners -

Debut director Liu Fendou has done a magnificent job.

~ David Stanners -

The ambiguity of the characters's motives makes for annoying false mystery in a soup of suburban corruption.

~ Scott Macdonald -

The ambiguity of the characters's motives makes for annoying false mystery in a soup of suburban corruption.

~ Scott Macdonald -

The film leaves many questions unanswered.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The film leaves many questions unanswered.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

An enjoyably quirky, thought provoking and, above all, thoroughly cinematic experience.

~ Keith Hennessey Brown -

An enjoyably quirky, thought provoking and, above all, thoroughly cinematic experience.

~ Keith Hennessey Brown -

Competently filmed and acted and, by all accounts, faithful to the novel, it’s the story itself that hinders Desert Of The Tartars as a piece of cinema.

~ Emma Slawinski -

Competently filmed and acted and, by all accounts, faithful to the novel, it’s the story itself that hinders Desert Of The Tartars as a piece of cinema.

~ Emma Slawinski -

Isild Le Besco lets this film meander in repetitive and unrealistic ways.

~ Gator MacReady -

Isild Le Besco lets this film meander in repetitive and unrealistic ways.

~ Gator MacReady -

Darkly, grimly funny in places.

~ Gator MacReady -

Darkly, grimly funny in places.

~ Gator MacReady -

The violence is heavy going and the atmosphere constantly fraught with a growing sense of foreboding.

~ David Stanners -

The violence is heavy going and the atmosphere constantly fraught with a growing sense of foreboding.

~ David Stanners -

Control is a highly eclectic tableaux of darkness and humour, life and death, characters and incidents, supernatural and commonplace.

~ David Stanners -

Control is a highly eclectic tableaux of darkness and humour, life and death, characters and incidents, supernatural and commonplace.

~ David Stanners -

This could almost be a laid back Palestinian expose of what is happening at the checkpoints, except it is made by an Israeli.

~ Chris -

This could almost be a laid back Palestinian expose of what is happening at the checkpoints, except it is made by an Israeli.

~ Chris -

An impassioned cine-tract.

~ Keith Hennessey Brown -

An impassioned cine-tract.

~ Keith Hennessey Brown -

The film's charm is the feeling of spontaneity and randomness.

~ David Stanners -

The film's charm is the feeling of spontaneity and randomness.

~ David Stanners -

Straightforward, unflashy direction... is counterbalanced by well-observed and nuanced performances.

~ Keith Hennessey Brown -

Straightforward, unflashy direction... is counterbalanced by well-observed and nuanced performances.

~ Keith Hennessey Brown -

All credibility and tension, manifested during the bulk of the film, is completely robbed at the final hurdle by a ludicrous ending.

~ David Stanners -

All credibility and tension, manifested during the bulk of the film, is completely robbed at the final hurdle by a ludicrous ending.

~ David Stanners -

Very funny and very exciting.

~ Gator MacReady -

Very funny and very exciting.

~ Gator MacReady -

A well-executed tale of paranoia and insularity.

~ Trinity -

A well-executed tale of paranoia and insularity.

~ Trinity -

Unfortunately, though all the performances are strong, there's simply not enough chemistry between the leads to make their struggle believable.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Unfortunately, though all the performances are strong, there's simply not enough chemistry between the leads to make their struggle believable.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A film of refreshingly non-intertwining stories and nice characterisation.

~ Trinity -

A film of refreshingly non-intertwining stories and nice characterisation.

~ Trinity -

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 -