Shawky allows his characters to sit firmly in the driving seat.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Shawky allows his characters to sit firmly in the driving seat.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Neville makes a solid case about why Rogers' impact remains so great even if the man himself remains partially concealed from us.

~ Owen Van Spall -

Neville makes a solid case about why Rogers' impact remains so great even if the man himself remains partially concealed from us.

~ Owen Van Spall -

This is joyful, beautiful, up-lifting - and bleak too, a clarion call to direct climate action at the personal and the political levels.

~ Andrew Robertson -

This is joyful, beautiful, up-lifting - and bleak too, a clarion call to direct climate action at the personal and the political levels.

~ Andrew Robertson -

There's a refreshing lack of sentimentality in the way Omerzu captures his duo of protagonists.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

There's a refreshing lack of sentimentality in the way Omerzu captures his duo of protagonists.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Nicole Taylor's quickfire script provides great material for the actors to work with .

~ Jennie Kermode -

Nicole Taylor's quickfire script provides great material for the actors to work with .

~ Jennie Kermode -

Landscape and music and everyday objects are used to splendid effect.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Landscape and music and everyday objects are used to splendid effect.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Recent Hollywood heist films - typified by the Ocean's franchise - have been largely concerned with shiny surfaces, gloss and froth but British director Steve McQueen is much more interested in what lies beneath.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Recent Hollywood heist films - typified by the Ocean's franchise - have been largely concerned with shiny surfaces, gloss and froth but British director Steve McQueen is much more interested in what lies beneath.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Hare finds contrast between Nureyev's physical grace and his considerably more abrasive personality.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Hare finds contrast between Nureyev's physical grace and his considerably more abrasive personality.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

While content is important, it is context that is king in a documentary, and this film could do with a lot more of it to orient viewers, especially those who don't have a full working knowledge of the American South.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

While content is important, it is context that is king in a documentary, and this film could do with a lot more of it to orient viewers, especially those who don't have a full working knowledge of the American South.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

If we have, ourselves, become greedy to know exactly what the secret is by this point, Barve certainly does not disappoint.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

If we have, ourselves, become greedy to know exactly what the secret is by this point, Barve certainly does not disappoint.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

For all his character's vacillations, this is a masterclass in filmmaking control.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

For all his character's vacillations, this is a masterclass in filmmaking control.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

This isn't racism as white sheet-wearing, torch-bearing awfulness, but the more 'respectable' version that looks squeaky clean and masquerades as 'tolerant' while being insidiously malevolent.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

This isn't racism as white sheet-wearing, torch-bearing awfulness, but the more 'respectable' version that looks squeaky clean and masquerades as 'tolerant' while being insidiously malevolent.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Jackson’s interventions into archive material are often startling and sometimes very transporting and moving, but in my view this film is best approached as more of a well-intentioned artistic reinterpretation.. than a restoration.

~ Owen Van Spall -

Jackson’s interventions into archive material are often startling and sometimes very transporting and moving, but in my view this film is best approached as more of a well-intentioned artistic reinterpretation.. than a restoration.

~ Owen Van Spall -

The documentary lifts the various stones around the movie's creation and lets us have a good look at the monsters hiding underneath Welles's barely watchable, misogynistic hate parade.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The documentary lifts the various stones around the movie's creation and lets us have a good look at the monsters hiding underneath Welles's barely watchable, misogynistic hate parade.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

If we compared the original to a Mark Rothko canvas - a distillation of raw emotion - this version is more akin to a colossal, baffling kinetic sculpture, one that seems to exist in more dimensions than it ought to.

~ Max Crawford -

If we compared the original to a Mark Rothko canvas - a distillation of raw emotion - this version is more akin to a colossal, baffling kinetic sculpture, one that seems to exist in more dimensions than it ought to.

~ Max Crawford -

Hall makes you feel the constant battle between exhaustion, frustration, and compassion,

~ Owen Van Spall -

Hall makes you feel the constant battle between exhaustion, frustration, and compassion,

~ Owen Van Spall -

Sunset while resisting the digital, flings us into a dreamworld where nostalgia for the past is twin to premonition of our future.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Sunset while resisting the digital, flings us into a dreamworld where nostalgia for the past is twin to premonition of our future.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

There's a strong sense of isolation from the start in Fisher's film.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

There's a strong sense of isolation from the start in Fisher's film.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The performances by Steve Coogan (Stan) and John C Reilly (Ollie) are above and beyond the call of duty. They give the film heart.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The performances by Steve Coogan (Stan) and John C Reilly (Ollie) are above and beyond the call of duty. They give the film heart.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

I've seen it described as a film with a twist but that suggests it's got just one. It's full of them, it's made of them, it reels and gyres and tumbles into something special.

~ Andrew Robertson -

I've seen it described as a film with a twist but that suggests it's got just one. It's full of them, it's made of them, it reels and gyres and tumbles into something special.

~ Andrew Robertson -

This is possibly the raciest picture ever to get a U-rating.

~ Scott Macdonald -

This is possibly the raciest picture ever to get a U-rating.

~ Scott Macdonald -

Phoenix gives his character more depth than such men are usually afforded but deliberately takes a back seat, allowing Reilly the dramatic lead role he has long deserved.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Phoenix gives his character more depth than such men are usually afforded but deliberately takes a back seat, allowing Reilly the dramatic lead role he has long deserved.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Going along with a bonkers plot and lashings of melodramatic confrontations between the characters is a hell of a lot easier to do when you have a well-done Wuxia spectacular to delight your eyes.

~ Owen Van Spall -

Going along with a bonkers plot and lashings of melodramatic confrontations between the characters is a hell of a lot easier to do when you have a well-done Wuxia spectacular to delight your eyes.

~ Owen Van Spall -

Showing a keen understanding of the nature of sex work and of life on the streets, Vidal-Naquet carries us through several days in Léo's life in a observational, non-judgemental way.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Showing a keen understanding of the nature of sex work and of life on the streets, Vidal-Naquet carries us through several days in Léo's life in a observational, non-judgemental way.

~ Jennie Kermode -

We are at a point where the wonders of earth and an awe in regards to nature cannot be shown often enough.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

We are at a point where the wonders of earth and an awe in regards to nature cannot be shown often enough.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Billingham's consideration calls for empathy rather than condemnation.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Billingham's consideration calls for empathy rather than condemnation.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Like its predecessor, the film does an impressive amount with an obviously limited budget.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Like its predecessor, the film does an impressive amount with an obviously limited budget.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Mansky's bigger picture about the manipulation of a nation is crystal clear.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Mansky's bigger picture about the manipulation of a nation is crystal clear.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Heineman’s docu-style fits perfectly into the look and sound of things.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Heineman’s docu-style fits perfectly into the look and sound of things.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The fight scenes are kept fairly simple, the focus not on gimmicky set pieces but on doing simple things really well.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The fight scenes are kept fairly simple, the focus not on gimmicky set pieces but on doing simple things really well.

~ Jennie Kermode -

In his desire to inform our heads, Leigh often forgets that he needs to engage our hearts us as well.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

In his desire to inform our heads, Leigh often forgets that he needs to engage our hearts us as well.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Beautifully written and sensitively directed.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Beautifully written and sensitively directed.

~ Jennie Kermode -

If you see one portrayal of a screwed up female detective with a drink problem this year, make it this one.

~ Jennie Kermode -

If you see one portrayal of a screwed up female detective with a drink problem this year, make it this one.

~ Jennie Kermode -

When it comes to action, the film doesn't disappoint, and the final scenes of men running around in mud are up there with the best.

~ Jennie Kermode -

When it comes to action, the film doesn't disappoint, and the final scenes of men running around in mud are up there with the best.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A seriously intelligent script.

~ Jane Fae -

A seriously intelligent script.

~ Jane Fae -

If Tucker hadn’t been a real person, you would have had had to invent him so Redford could play him, so perfect is the fit.

~ Owen Van Spall -

If Tucker hadn’t been a real person, you would have had had to invent him so Redford could play him, so perfect is the fit.

~ Owen Van Spall -

In Assayas's smashingly sad comedy of manners, shoes drop left and right.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

In Assayas's smashingly sad comedy of manners, shoes drop left and right.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Fabiula Nascimento is superb as the frustrated Odete.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Fabiula Nascimento is superb as the frustrated Odete.

~ Jennie Kermode -

An intense character study in triplicate, made gripping both by the deliberately ambiguous way in which Christina Choe approaches everyone's mental state and by the performances.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

An intense character study in triplicate, made gripping both by the deliberately ambiguous way in which Christina Choe approaches everyone's mental state and by the performances.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The director has an aptitude for taking a dash of the familiar and giving it an individual twist.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The director has an aptitude for taking a dash of the familiar and giving it an individual twist.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Both Rodriguez and Rohana deliver delicate, nuanced performances in a story that revolves in large part around friendship.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Both Rodriguez and Rohana deliver delicate, nuanced performances in a story that revolves in large part around friendship.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Thumbs up here for graphics that are colourful, inventive and always interesting.

~ Jane Fae -

Thumbs up here for graphics that are colourful, inventive and always interesting.

~ Jane Fae -

Bobbie Cousins' marvellous production design packs in the details that inform us about the life that is fading.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Bobbie Cousins' marvellous production design packs in the details that inform us about the life that is fading.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Gilliam’s script cannot quite stand the excesses of his own imagination.

~ Richard Mowe -

Gilliam’s script cannot quite stand the excesses of his own imagination.

~ Richard Mowe -

The film only lives up to about 80% of the promise whereas I wanted 150%.

~ Owen Van Spall -

The film only lives up to about 80% of the promise whereas I wanted 150%.

~ Owen Van Spall -

This is a woozily shot, dislocating experience that in its best moments generates the sort of tense mental anxiety that Lynne Ramsay has made her calling card.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

This is a woozily shot, dislocating experience that in its best moments generates the sort of tense mental anxiety that Lynne Ramsay has made her calling card.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Glavonic, who has a background in documentary, has crafted a moody and broody piece, built less on onscreen incident than the oppressive atmosphere and offscreen imaginings.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Glavonic, who has a background in documentary, has crafted a moody and broody piece, built less on onscreen incident than the oppressive atmosphere and offscreen imaginings.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

This is a grim, austere story of the pressure cooker of frustration, rage and fear that results when the patriarchy squeezes just as tight as the corsets of the time.

~ Owen Van Spall -

This is a grim, austere story of the pressure cooker of frustration, rage and fear that results when the patriarchy squeezes just as tight as the corsets of the time.

~ Owen Van Spall -

Ladyworld becomes so burdened by art and symbolism that it almost loses sight of the need to tell a story.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Ladyworld becomes so burdened by art and symbolism that it almost loses sight of the need to tell a story.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This isn't the kind of film that's destined to win mainstream awards but Paradis' performance deserves to be remembered.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This isn't the kind of film that's destined to win mainstream awards but Paradis' performance deserves to be remembered.

~ Jennie Kermode -

For anyone who has experienced the obsessive attentions of a teacher, this makes for uncomfortable viewing.

~ Jennie Kermode -

For anyone who has experienced the obsessive attentions of a teacher, this makes for uncomfortable viewing.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Clavellino's approach is unsentimental and all the more believable for that.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Clavellino's approach is unsentimental and all the more believable for that.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

It is carefully crafted, the work of a film-maker who is very in charge of what he is doing.

~ Jane Fae -

It is carefully crafted, the work of a film-maker who is very in charge of what he is doing.

~ Jane Fae -

If you're interested in the technical details of the sport or the process of filmmaking, you may find Julien Faraut's unapologetically artsy film fascinating.

~ Jennie Kermode -

If you're interested in the technical details of the sport or the process of filmmaking, you may find Julien Faraut's unapologetically artsy film fascinating.

~ Jennie Kermode -

You might not think you're in the mood for buying, but his extravagant sales pitch is likely to win you over by the end.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

You might not think you're in the mood for buying, but his extravagant sales pitch is likely to win you over by the end.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Elusively impenetrable stuff that only loosely can be described as cinema.

~ Richard Mowe -

Elusively impenetrable stuff that only loosely can be described as cinema.

~ Richard Mowe -

A powerful condemnation of endemic and structural racism, a sweet love story and, at a technical level, a beautifully produced film, If Beale Street Could Talk has much to recommend it.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A powerful condemnation of endemic and structural racism, a sweet love story and, at a technical level, a beautifully produced film, If Beale Street Could Talk has much to recommend it.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This is a story of building a thing against impossible odds.

~ Jane Fae -

This is a story of building a thing against impossible odds.

~ Jane Fae -

Sonne, seemingly named for her role, moves through it with languorous ease.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Sonne, seemingly named for her role, moves through it with languorous ease.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Newcomer Tardiolo is splendid in the lead.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Newcomer Tardiolo is splendid in the lead.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Well-written dialogue, strong acting all round and unobtrusive but taut direction give it real strength.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Well-written dialogue, strong acting all round and unobtrusive but taut direction give it real strength.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Directed with admirable understatement and restraint.

~ Richard Mowe -

Directed with admirable understatement and restraint.

~ Richard Mowe -

The film stands back, doesn’t take sides. As a political thriller it stays out of politics. As a human drama it rocks to a gentle rhythm.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The film stands back, doesn’t take sides. As a political thriller it stays out of politics. As a human drama it rocks to a gentle rhythm.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Touching and brave.

~ Richard Mowe -

Touching and brave.

~ Richard Mowe -

Arebi's patiently observational film is full of small moments that encapsulate horrific prejudice or warm, resilient humour.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Arebi's patiently observational film is full of small moments that encapsulate horrific prejudice or warm, resilient humour.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Simple things like a radio suddenly switching on, a wine glass falling to the floor, or an insistent knocking at the door are an object lesson to contemporary horror’s blood-soaked tyros.

~ Jeff Robson -

Simple things like a radio suddenly switching on, a wine glass falling to the floor, or an insistent knocking at the door are an object lesson to contemporary horror’s blood-soaked tyros.

~ Jeff Robson -

The dialogue is irreverent and sharp like a raven's claw.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The dialogue is irreverent and sharp like a raven's claw.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Imhoof tries to open the debate out to consider the unsavoury economics of the situation, with the personal touchstone ensuring that his film retains a character of its own that marks it out from others on the same subject.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Imhoof tries to open the debate out to consider the unsavoury economics of the situation, with the personal touchstone ensuring that his film retains a character of its own that marks it out from others on the same subject.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Long, slow and at times painful.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Long, slow and at times painful.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Each successive scene hits you over the head with the ferocity of the action.

~ Richard Mowe -

Each successive scene hits you over the head with the ferocity of the action.

~ Richard Mowe -

Because Simone is so one-note, it's hard to fully swallow the lengths Marcello ultimately goes to in order to shield him.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Because Simone is so one-note, it's hard to fully swallow the lengths Marcello ultimately goes to in order to shield him.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Michel Ocelot's combination of live film, photo-realistic images and animation brings out the magic of Paris as if were being seen for the first time.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Michel Ocelot's combination of live film, photo-realistic images and animation brings out the magic of Paris as if were being seen for the first time.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The film carries a message about the importance of tolerance, love and a healthy dose of silliness in the face of the darker elements of modern life.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The film carries a message about the importance of tolerance, love and a healthy dose of silliness in the face of the darker elements of modern life.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

It's essentially a character study - the trouble is that there's not much character there.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It's essentially a character study - the trouble is that there's not much character there.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The cinematography of Dead Pigs is consistently picturesque, even during the most melancholic moments.

~ Stephanie Brown -

The cinematography of Dead Pigs is consistently picturesque, even during the most melancholic moments.

~ Stephanie Brown -

Beautifully lit, Daughter Of Mine conjures up a tremendous sense of place, all salt breezes, scrubland and golden sand.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Beautifully lit, Daughter Of Mine conjures up a tremendous sense of place, all salt breezes, scrubland and golden sand.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Shooting under predominantly grey skies in landscapes built of concrete, chipboard and peeling plaster, director Darko Stante invites the audience to share Andrej's feelings of confinement and hopelessness.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Shooting under predominantly grey skies in landscapes built of concrete, chipboard and peeling plaster, director Darko Stante invites the audience to share Andrej's feelings of confinement and hopelessness.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This evocation of Colette in 2018 knows that its heroine will always be larger than what is on screen.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

This evocation of Colette in 2018 knows that its heroine will always be larger than what is on screen.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

This is a quiet movie, which never loses its focus on its central character study, while allowing points about economic and social inequalities to sound out loud and clear.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

This is a quiet movie, which never loses its focus on its central character study, while allowing points about economic and social inequalities to sound out loud and clear.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Chained For Life finds a rich vein of comedy in the awfulness of many people's reactions to disability.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Chained For Life finds a rich vein of comedy in the awfulness of many people's reactions to disability.

~ Jennie Kermode -

You might notice the elegance of composition while knowing that the place contains so much human suffering.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

You might notice the elegance of composition while knowing that the place contains so much human suffering.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

McCarthy is a revelation.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

McCarthy is a revelation.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The writers start from a place where the screw is already turned and, just when you think they can't get it any tighter, find new ways to increase the tension - matching their torque with action.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The writers start from a place where the screw is already turned and, just when you think they can't get it any tighter, find new ways to increase the tension - matching their torque with action.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Screenwriter Isa Mazzei is a former camgirl herself and it shows in the film’s focus on the business side of proceedings, but director Daniel Goldhaber extends her work in a much stranger direction.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Screenwriter Isa Mazzei is a former camgirl herself and it shows in the film’s focus on the business side of proceedings, but director Daniel Goldhaber extends her work in a much stranger direction.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Lee works the narrative with an ambivalence that borders on the inscrutable

~ Sunil Chauhan -

Lee works the narrative with an ambivalence that borders on the inscrutable

~ Sunil Chauhan -

An original and highly ambitious premise that maintains its grip your attention and imagination.

~ Richard Mowe -

An original and highly ambitious premise that maintains its grip your attention and imagination.

~ Richard Mowe -

Though the film feels too smart and too busy for its own good at times, the story remains fascinating (though troubling), and the cinematography always striking.

~ Owen Van Spall -

Though the film feels too smart and too busy for its own good at times, the story remains fascinating (though troubling), and the cinematography always striking.

~ Owen Van Spall -

The rituals set in motion at the start, also tune us into the wavelength of portent, so that a heron's feet on a rug or the sound of locusts carry at least as much threat as the site of a loaded gun.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The rituals set in motion at the start, also tune us into the wavelength of portent, so that a heron's feet on a rug or the sound of locusts carry at least as much threat as the site of a loaded gun.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

This isn't the finest example of the documentary art, but it may well be one of the most enjoyable films you see this year.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This isn't the finest example of the documentary art, but it may well be one of the most enjoyable films you see this year.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Green's richly detailed documentary is a portrait of a remarkable woman, a love letter to early cinema and a fascinating detective story all in one.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Green's richly detailed documentary is a portrait of a remarkable woman, a love letter to early cinema and a fascinating detective story all in one.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The performances are a tribute to a screenplay that avoids the worst indulgences of the urban jungle.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The performances are a tribute to a screenplay that avoids the worst indulgences of the urban jungle.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Scruggs still suffers from the problem that afflicts too many other anthologies - not all the tales come up to the same level in telling the essentially Coen-esque truth over and over.

~ Owen Van Spall -

Scruggs still suffers from the problem that afflicts too many other anthologies - not all the tales come up to the same level in telling the essentially Coen-esque truth over and over.

~ Owen Van Spall -

Older viewers may find it too much but it's spot on for what it's trying to achieve.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Older viewers may find it too much but it's spot on for what it's trying to achieve.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Higashide will no doubt attract most attention, impressive in his ability to inhabit two very different characters, yet it's Karata who is the power at the heart of the film.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Higashide will no doubt attract most attention, impressive in his ability to inhabit two very different characters, yet it's Karata who is the power at the heart of the film.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Joe Penna's thriller is as lean and spare as life up in the Arctic wilderness.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Joe Penna's thriller is as lean and spare as life up in the Arctic wilderness.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It should come as no surprise, given the kitsch and extravagant props and costumes, that the film has been co-produced by Pedro Almodovar and his brother Augustin.

~ Richard Mowe -

It should come as no surprise, given the kitsch and extravagant props and costumes, that the film has been co-produced by Pedro Almodovar and his brother Augustin.

~ Richard Mowe -

An elegant, inspiring piece of silent cinema, which is strongly recommended for any hopeless romantics out there.

~ Adam Micklethwaite -

An elegant, inspiring piece of silent cinema, which is strongly recommended for any hopeless romantics out there.

~ Adam Micklethwaite -

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 -

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 -

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 -

[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 -

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 -

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 -