Jeremaiah Marobyane is a guide on the winding roads of broken memory – courageously entering the heart of darkness deeper and deeper in a search of a girl who went missing a few years ago.

~ Mateusz Tarwacki -

Jeremaiah Marobyane is a guide on the winding roads of broken memory – courageously entering the heart of darkness deeper and deeper in a search of a girl who went missing a few years ago.

~ Mateusz Tarwacki -

This as an enchanting film and perfect for family viewing.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This as an enchanting film and perfect for family viewing.

~ Jennie Kermode -

With characters coming and going continually, the film is wildly uneven in tone, sometimes broadly comic, sometimes painfully dark. In many ways this suits its efforts to address the chaotic nature of life.

~ Jennie Kermode -

With characters coming and going continually, the film is wildly uneven in tone, sometimes broadly comic, sometimes painfully dark. In many ways this suits its efforts to address the chaotic nature of life.

~ Jennie Kermode -

James Cameron's masterpiece. A lean, brooding, violent and unforgettable experience from a director hungry for success.

~ Scott Macdonald -

James Cameron's masterpiece. A lean, brooding, violent and unforgettable experience from a director hungry for success.

~ Scott Macdonald -

Filmed without commentary and with a poetic grace.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Filmed without commentary and with a poetic grace.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Although The Story Of Southern Islet undoubtedly attracts with its remarkable aesthetics, especially beautiful slow shots, emphasising the magical, mysterious atmosphere, it is an hermetic film.

~ Mateusz Tarwacki -

Although The Story Of Southern Islet undoubtedly attracts with its remarkable aesthetics, especially beautiful slow shots, emphasising the magical, mysterious atmosphere, it is an hermetic film.

~ Mateusz Tarwacki -

Merz creates a space where emotions run riot, especially in the neon lights of night, the 4:3 aspect ratio letting each of the characters' faces fill the frame with an intensity that matches the colour scheme.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Merz creates a space where emotions run riot, especially in the neon lights of night, the 4:3 aspect ratio letting each of the characters' faces fill the frame with an intensity that matches the colour scheme.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

For Aurélia Georges, going back to 1914 in Secret Name is not only a pretext for a story about class emancipation, but, above all, female emancipation.

~ Mateusz Tarwacki -

For Aurélia Georges, going back to 1914 in Secret Name is not only a pretext for a story about class emancipation, but, above all, female emancipation.

~ Mateusz Tarwacki -

The sheer quantity of imitable violence in the film is likely to frighten censors around the world.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The sheer quantity of imitable violence in the film is likely to frighten censors around the world.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Documentarian Milo Rau's hybrid feature is part passion play and part call for compassion.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Documentarian Milo Rau's hybrid feature is part passion play and part call for compassion.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

'Pedestrian' is too racy a word to describe it.

~ Martin Gray -

'Pedestrian' is too racy a word to describe it.

~ Martin Gray -

Chuat and Reymond’s début feature is grounded in a deep reality.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Chuat and Reymond’s début feature is grounded in a deep reality.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The film remains mysterious without being confusing - you don't need to grasp every detail to understand its metaphors and message and its enigmatic aura invites repeat viewings.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The film remains mysterious without being confusing - you don't need to grasp every detail to understand its metaphors and message and its enigmatic aura invites repeat viewings.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

At first glance, one can feel the enormous amount of work, heart and effort put into the completion of this epic animation.

~ Mateusz Tarwacki -

At first glance, one can feel the enormous amount of work, heart and effort put into the completion of this epic animation.

~ Mateusz Tarwacki -

Mann’s film is a stone-cold masterpiece.

~ Stephen Carty -

Mann’s film is a stone-cold masterpiece.

~ Stephen Carty -

The Zürchers carefully construct their web of relationships, showing how a small vibration somewhere can lead to unexpected consequences elsewhere.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The Zürchers carefully construct their web of relationships, showing how a small vibration somewhere can lead to unexpected consequences elsewhere.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

This film is nothing if not derivative. Except, therein lies its beauty.

~ Jane Fae -

This film is nothing if not derivative. Except, therein lies its beauty.

~ Jane Fae -

For all its supernatural stylings, it's the natural connections that count.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

For all its supernatural stylings, it's the natural connections that count.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Bucolic is a film that demythologises the Polish, idyllic countryside.

~ Mateusz Tarwacki -

Bucolic is a film that demythologises the Polish, idyllic countryside.

~ Mateusz Tarwacki -

Like the people in front of his balcony, the meaning of the film meets Lozinski in each subsequent interaction.

~ Mateusz Tarwacki -

Like the people in front of his balcony, the meaning of the film meets Lozinski in each subsequent interaction.

~ Mateusz Tarwacki -

Shot mainly at night, the darkness deepens the film's oppressive quality, while the constant presence of rubbish only adds to the sense of everyone sitting in a miasma of despair.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Shot mainly at night, the darkness deepens the film's oppressive quality, while the constant presence of rubbish only adds to the sense of everyone sitting in a miasma of despair.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Bethmann understands the situation well, but her closeness to the teenager and the personal character that the film takes on as a result is something else.

~ Jennie Kermode -

So carefully balanced is this that the film could almost have emerged as a romcom, and it’s that possibility, that clash between the absurdity that cinema has taught us to expect and the bitterness of real life, that makes it so effective.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Through the lens of the men’s romance, Onir takes in a good deal more, exploring the complex realities behind assumptions of prejudice and the myriad factors that go into making each of us who we are.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Throughout the film there is a sense of play, and even as the story evolves to take on darker material, something of that lightness, that happy-go-lucky quality remains.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The film hinges on amazing vocal work by Lalama.

~ Jennie Kermode -

There’s a genuine unpredictability to Honey Bunch, both structurally and thematically.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Where the episodes work is when they have a driving, kinetic energy about them. When they don't it's repetitious loop.

~ Donald Munro -

The film, directed by feature debutant Shaun Dozier, retains the density of dialogue you might expect from a stage play but, by leaning into the theatrical nature of the proceedings, Dozier is in some ways able to make this into a virtue.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A very effective piece of low budget storytelling.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Coogan is well cast in this tricky role, moving easily from humour to heartbreak..

~ Jennie Kermode -

Manizha Bakhtari may not be a household name but after watching Natalie Halla’s documentary you’re likely to think she ought to be.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Sung’s own camera plays tricks, placing objects too close in the foreground so that parts of an image are out of focus, like an incomplete memory.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The concept, narrative, dialogue, cinematography and action sequences are elements of Scanners that can't be faulted.

~ Donald Munro -

The film hangs on Pemberton’s performance, and he imbues Doug with a sweetness that makes us feel for him despite his deeply misguided actions.

~ Jennie Kermode -

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 -

A very effective piece of low budget storytelling.

~ 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 -

Once again, Guiraudie proves himself the master of setting up a mystery by the means of perfect script economy that functions strictly on “need to know” basis.

~ Marko Stojiljkovic -

The director shows how it’s not just Julie’s tennis skills that have been groomed by the coach but large aspects of her life.

~ 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 -