Well shot and well paced, Zero has a lot to offer in spite of its twee moments.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Well shot and well paced, Zero has a lot to offer in spite of its twee moments.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Naturalism is the lifeblood of Das’ films and this one is no different

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Naturalism is the lifeblood of Das’ films and this one is no different

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A wild story delivered with verve and a suitable degree of irreverence.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A wild story delivered with verve and a suitable degree of irreverence.

~ Jennie Kermode -

As sentimental as it is endearing.

~ Darren Amner -

As sentimental as it is endearing.

~ Darren Amner -

The script is lean, the sword edges keen and the characters mean.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The script is lean, the sword edges keen and the characters mean.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

This is England is, quite simply, the best British film for years. If you're underage, sneak into this film.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This is England is, quite simply, the best British film for years. If you're underage, sneak into this film.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The heat is omnipresent, rippling through the air, distorting what we see, distorting time and identity.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The heat is omnipresent, rippling through the air, distorting what we see, distorting time and identity.

~ Jennie Kermode -

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 -

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 -

There isn’t an ornament that feels out of place and you can almost smell the kitchen chip fat and butterfly bun icing as you gaze around Bobby’s home, with its orange pine and associated shades of brown.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

There isn’t an ornament that feels out of place and you can almost smell the kitchen chip fat and butterfly bun icing as you gaze around Bobby’s home, with its orange pine and associated shades of brown.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

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

~ Amber Wilkinson -

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

~ Amber Wilkinson -

[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 -

[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 -

A confident and well-constructed tale that is built on the firm foundations of a great ensemble cast.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A confident and well-constructed tale that is built on the firm foundations of a great ensemble cast.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A moody, unsettling piece.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A moody, unsettling piece.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Haneke documents the humiliation and the desire, as a newsman might report a suicide. He is careful not to intrude and yet insistent on seeing everything.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Haneke documents the humiliation and the desire, as a newsman might report a suicide. He is careful not to intrude and yet insistent on seeing everything.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

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 -

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 -

Comic invention rides shotgun on a screenplay that runs wild.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Comic invention rides shotgun on a screenplay that runs wild.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Carreira shows how quiet desperation can be eroding

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Carreira shows how quiet desperation can be eroding

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Marie-Claire Marcotte’s feature début demonstrates an astute awareness of what it’s like to be eight.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Marie-Claire Marcotte’s feature début demonstrates an astute awareness of what it’s like to be eight.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The director and her co-writer Alice Winocour side with their young protagonists, drawing on their boundless energy to tell their story in the spirit of a fable and in a way that makes it accessible to younger audiences.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The director and her co-writer Alice Winocour side with their young protagonists, drawing on their boundless energy to tell their story in the spirit of a fable and in a way that makes it accessible to younger audiences.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A Mother’s Embrace has an organic quality. Even its strangest elements feel convincingly part of the whole.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A Mother’s Embrace has an organic quality. Even its strangest elements feel convincingly part of the whole.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A film that is built upon patience and which takes a philosophical rather than judgmental stance.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A film that is built upon patience and which takes a philosophical rather than judgmental stance.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Diaz has drawn partially on his relationship with his own mother and the specificity of place and time also help the tensions to feel authentic.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Diaz has drawn partially on his relationship with his own mother and the specificity of place and time also help the tensions to feel authentic.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Ott’s interest is not in creating an accurate depiction of exactly what happened in the run-up to the Oklahoma City bombing, but rather in exploring the thought processes behind it.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Ott’s interest is not in creating an accurate depiction of exactly what happened in the run-up to the Oklahoma City bombing, but rather in exploring the thought processes behind it.

~ Jennie Kermode -

In this tangled tapestry, Russell has captured the soul of a nation.

~ Jennie Kermode -

In this tangled tapestry, Russell has captured the soul of a nation.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It is a brave film that portrays Idi Amin not simply as a monster, but as a complex individual.

~ Steve Harwood -

It is a brave film that portrays Idi Amin not simply as a monster, but as a complex individual.

~ Steve Harwood -

Her honesty cuts through you like an Arctic storm

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Her honesty cuts through you like an Arctic storm

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

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 -

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 -

Premo never imposes an overt framing narrative, but interesting things emerge.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Premo never imposes an overt framing narrative, but interesting things emerge.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Hidden is no conventional mystery and viewers searching for straightforward answers to the questions that it raises are likely to be disappointed.

~ Anton Bitel -

Hidden is no conventional mystery and viewers searching for straightforward answers to the questions that it raises are likely to be disappointed.

~ Anton Bitel -

The real pleasure of the film is in the non-stop parade of funny, well-observed scenes and killer lines of dialogue.

~ Jeff Robson -

The real pleasure of the film is in the non-stop parade of funny, well-observed scenes and killer lines of dialogue.

~ Jeff Robson -

It’s ironic that a film about a family who have built a perfect facsimile of a life for themselves should feel so overly constructed itself

~ Amber Wilkinson -

It’s ironic that a film about a family who have built a perfect facsimile of a life for themselves should feel so overly constructed itself

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Dying is full of glorious contradictions, many of which occur within the same conversation

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Dying is full of glorious contradictions, many of which occur within the same conversation

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Øverbye makes a compelling lead, taking on the chunks of voiceover without any problem but also excelling in terms of conveying her character’s moods via body language

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Øverbye makes a compelling lead, taking on the chunks of voiceover without any problem but also excelling in terms of conveying her character’s moods via body language

~ Amber Wilkinson -

If the humour works for you at all, you’ll find it a hoot.

~ Jennie Kermode -

If the humour works for you at all, you’ll find it a hoot.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Don't read this review... simply go and see it, for if ever there was a film that is best experienced without knowing a single detail, this unforgettable oddity from Greece is the one.

~ Andrew Grant -

Don't read this review... simply go and see it, for if ever there was a film that is best experienced without knowing a single detail, this unforgettable oddity from Greece is the one.

~ Andrew Grant -

Lin and Sun studiously maintain the enigma around Shuo so that we are left guessing as to whether he’s just a disadvantaged teen trying to make his way in the world or a cuckoo in the nest.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Lin and Sun studiously maintain the enigma around Shuo so that we are left guessing as to whether he’s just a disadvantaged teen trying to make his way in the world or a cuckoo in the nest.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Though likely a little too whimsical for some, Boys Go To Jupiter seems destined to develop a cult following.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Though likely a little too whimsical for some, Boys Go To Jupiter seems destined to develop a cult following.

~ Jennie Kermode -

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 -

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 -

I laughed, and was not alone in doing so, out loud, and repeatedly.

~ Andrew Robertson -

I laughed, and was not alone in doing so, out loud, and repeatedly.

~ Andrew Robertson -

For fans of martial arts cinema, this is a must see.

~ Jennie Kermode -

For fans of martial arts cinema, this is a must see.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Although it could easily have been played as a farce, it’s friendship and human feeling that is the key to this film.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Although it could easily have been played as a farce, it’s friendship and human feeling that is the key to this film.

~ 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 -

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 -