If you only see one short film this year - make it this one.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

If you only see one short film this year - make it this one.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Good writing and committed performances.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Good writing and committed performances.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The performances are strong and Larkin and Menzies in particular have an intensity that lifts this film above the pack.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The performances are strong and Larkin and Menzies in particular have an intensity that lifts this film above the pack.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

If your experience of Japanese anime has so far been confined to bubblegum tweenies and manga mechas, then Kon's altogether more adult animation will come as a real revelation.

~ Anton Bitel -

If your experience of Japanese anime has so far been confined to bubblegum tweenies and manga mechas, then Kon's altogether more adult animation will come as a real revelation.

~ Anton Bitel -

Finds humour in pushing the envelope of reality.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Finds humour in pushing the envelope of reality.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

If you like the Pixies even a little bit, this is a rare opportunity to experience them at their best.

~ Chris -

If you like the Pixies even a little bit, this is a rare opportunity to experience them at their best.

~ Chris -

Verbally, physically and emotionally brutal. You'll come out melted like ice cream.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Verbally, physically and emotionally brutal. You'll come out melted like ice cream.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

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 -

Half Nelson is a believeable film, depressing at times but smart and moving.

~ Darren Amner -

Half Nelson is a believeable film, depressing at times but smart and moving.

~ Darren Amner -

First-time writer-director Robbie Fraser achieves a good balance between comedy and drama

~ Keith Hennessey Brown -

First-time writer-director Robbie Fraser achieves a good balance between comedy and drama

~ Keith Hennessey Brown -

Careful facts started seeping down my neck until I was almost in a state of shock.

~ Chris -

Careful facts started seeping down my neck until I was almost in a state of shock.

~ Chris -

John Malkovich at his most endearingly camp.

~ Chris -

John Malkovich at his most endearingly camp.

~ Chris -

Breaking And Entering feels genuinely homegrown, with an intelligent script, beautifully handled by actors and director.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Breaking And Entering feels genuinely homegrown, with an intelligent script, beautifully handled by actors and director.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

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 -

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 -

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 -