Shankland dispenses with subplots almost as quickly as bodies, but his debut rattles along at a nice, taut pace.

~ Richard Mellor -

Shankland dispenses with subplots almost as quickly as bodies, but his debut rattles along at a nice, taut pace.

~ Richard Mellor -

This might be familiar fare, but Fumihiko Sori and his team pull it off with sufficient visual aplomb to keep things highly entertaining.

~ Paul Griffiths -

This might be familiar fare, but Fumihiko Sori and his team pull it off with sufficient visual aplomb to keep things highly entertaining.

~ Paul Griffiths -

Marcondes' artistic mix of puppetry, traditional and computer-generated animation is a feast for the eyes.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Marcondes' artistic mix of puppetry, traditional and computer-generated animation is a feast for the eyes.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Lichtenstein takes the myth of vagina dentata and gives it a kitsch horror/comedy makeover, to surprisingly smart and sassy effect.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Lichtenstein takes the myth of vagina dentata and gives it a kitsch horror/comedy makeover, to surprisingly smart and sassy effect.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Tekkonkinkreet is beautiful, and ably uses its visual appeal in service of an exciting fable.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Tekkonkinkreet is beautiful, and ably uses its visual appeal in service of an exciting fable.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Full of gleeful anachronisms... brilliant.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Full of gleeful anachronisms... brilliant.

~ Andrew Robertson -

This is clever writing, smart filmmaking and excellent acting. It grasps your nerve endings and gives them a twist.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

This is clever writing, smart filmmaking and excellent acting. It grasps your nerve endings and gives them a twist.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

When it comes to Japanese slo-mo sensuality, there is nothing you can do but admire the photography, because arousal has been dulled to death long before.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

When it comes to Japanese slo-mo sensuality, there is nothing you can do but admire the photography, because arousal has been dulled to death long before.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Silent Light is a powerful, technically excellent piece of cinema.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Silent Light is a powerful, technically excellent piece of cinema.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Beneath the cover of portraying the generalised horrors of war, the film is more subtly critical of America's conduct in both the Vietnam War and the current conflict in Iraq.

~ Max Crawford -

Beneath the cover of portraying the generalised horrors of war, the film is more subtly critical of America's conduct in both the Vietnam War and the current conflict in Iraq.

~ Max Crawford -

A deceptively polished work.

~ Chris -

A deceptively polished work.

~ Chris -

An emotional, thrilling, disturbing and beautiful film.

~ Susanna Krawczyk -

An emotional, thrilling, disturbing and beautiful film.

~ Susanna Krawczyk -

Glorious, a hilariously stupid zombie fest that spoofs and honours grindhouse so much better than the tenuously related Death Proof.

~ Ben Sillis -

Glorious, a hilariously stupid zombie fest that spoofs and honours grindhouse so much better than the tenuously related Death Proof.

~ Ben Sillis -

Sanchez and Bayona never lose sight of the requirements of the genre, providing plenty in the way of seat-gripping tension and finding suitable shocks in the everyday.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Sanchez and Bayona never lose sight of the requirements of the genre, providing plenty in the way of seat-gripping tension and finding suitable shocks in the everyday.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Against the whisper of wind and buzz of flies, the Coens manage to find tension in the subtlest of movements and cut the dialogue through with humour as arid as the landscape.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Against the whisper of wind and buzz of flies, the Coens manage to find tension in the subtlest of movements and cut the dialogue through with humour as arid as the landscape.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Motodrom has no pretensions other than to demonstrate the skill and daring of the Wall of Death riders.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Motodrom has no pretensions other than to demonstrate the skill and daring of the Wall of Death riders.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

A Man's Job uses its simple story to probe a number of prevalent but subdued contemporary issues.

~ Paul Griffiths -

A Man's Job uses its simple story to probe a number of prevalent but subdued contemporary issues.

~ Paul Griffiths -

Cobain’s story is perfectly juxtaposed with some spectacular photography. 

~ David Stanners -

Cobain’s story is perfectly juxtaposed with some spectacular photography. 

~ David Stanners -

The water rippling around the village mirrors the ebb and flow of relationships within Salif Traoré’s film.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The water rippling around the village mirrors the ebb and flow of relationships within Salif Traoré’s film.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

By gaining such intimate access to Joya, Mulvad has ample opportunity to show the person behind the politics.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

By gaining such intimate access to Joya, Mulvad has ample opportunity to show the person behind the politics.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Mullan, as usual, blends his trademark emotional rawness and understatement of gesture to powerful effect.

~ Dylan Matthew -

Mullan, as usual, blends his trademark emotional rawness and understatement of gesture to powerful effect.

~ Dylan Matthew -

Chaotic, funny, beautifully shot and performed with a childlike deadpan.

~ Anton Bitel -

Chaotic, funny, beautifully shot and performed with a childlike deadpan.

~ Anton Bitel -

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 -