Stylistically simple but quite remarkable when one considers that they were filmed with a single DSLR, these short films form a powerful whole.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Stylistically simple but quite remarkable when one considers that they were filmed with a single DSLR, these short films form a powerful whole.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Does seem to predict reality television, and satirise it, in a frighteningly prescient way.

~ James Benefield -

Does seem to predict reality television, and satirise it, in a frighteningly prescient way.

~ James Benefield -

Possibly the best musical ever written.

~ Gabriella Trybalska -

Possibly the best musical ever written.

~ Gabriella Trybalska -

If you are willing to drift along Olson's stream of consciousness, there are pleasures along the way, but not all her meanderings make the connections she hopes for.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

If you are willing to drift along Olson's stream of consciousness, there are pleasures along the way, but not all her meanderings make the connections she hopes for.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A feelgood parable of human nature's ability to extract the positive from a negative.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

A feelgood parable of human nature's ability to extract the positive from a negative.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Sexuality, Francois Ozon's latest film declares, can be as complex as desiring another person can be simple.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Sexuality, Francois Ozon's latest film declares, can be as complex as desiring another person can be simple.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

As a portrait of a particular community at a critical moment in its history, this film is undoubtedly valuable.

~ Jennie Kermode -

As a portrait of a particular community at a critical moment in its history, this film is undoubtedly valuable.

~ Jennie Kermode -

There is too much of the ring of the academic argument and, especially for a film so concerned with the spiritual, not quite enough soul.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

There is too much of the ring of the academic argument and, especially for a film so concerned with the spiritual, not quite enough soul.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Erica Tremblay's unobtrusive interview technique draws out personal stories that hint at much bigger social shifts.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Erica Tremblay's unobtrusive interview technique draws out personal stories that hint at much bigger social shifts.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Transformation is coming, although as with Sciamma's previous films this is not a simple, one-way manoeuvre, completed in double-quick time

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Transformation is coming, although as with Sciamma's previous films this is not a simple, one-way manoeuvre, completed in double-quick time

~ Amber Wilkinson -

If you're willing to go with the flow, this study of emotion develops and maintains a sensual and sensory intensity.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

If you're willing to go with the flow, this study of emotion develops and maintains a sensual and sensory intensity.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A difficult film, and a film about difficult women.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A difficult film, and a film about difficult women.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The Duke Of Burgundy is delicate, constructed, poised; a piece of naturalistic beauty with all the authentic artificiality of wings pinioned while drying by small pieces of paper, a needle through the heart that wrenches.

~ Andrew Robertson -

The Duke Of Burgundy is delicate, constructed, poised; a piece of naturalistic beauty with all the authentic artificiality of wings pinioned while drying by small pieces of paper, a needle through the heart that wrenches.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Although it's as uneven as the make-up, this film has moments of brilliance.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Although it's as uneven as the make-up, this film has moments of brilliance.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Frédéric Tcheng's documentary about a house and its ghosts in past and present is all you could desire from a fashion film.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Frédéric Tcheng's documentary about a house and its ghosts in past and present is all you could desire from a fashion film.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

A solid, grounded piece of work that approaches its subject with a maturity remarkable for a first feature from a young director.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A solid, grounded piece of work that approaches its subject with a maturity remarkable for a first feature from a young director.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Director Sophie Deraspe, probably best-known for 2009 drama Vital Signs, brings a strong sense of the cinematic to what, on paper, looks like a poor candidate for it.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Director Sophie Deraspe, probably best-known for 2009 drama Vital Signs, brings a strong sense of the cinematic to what, on paper, looks like a poor candidate for it.

~ 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 -