Hossain allows Roya to embrace her freedom, showing intimate details of an affair that is allowed to have a much more positive impact on her life than is more often the case on film.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Hossain allows Roya to embrace her freedom, showing intimate details of an affair that is allowed to have a much more positive impact on her life than is more often the case on film.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The film really shouldn’t work, but it does.

~ Richard Mowe -

The film really shouldn’t work, but it does.

~ Richard Mowe -

Michael Radford's film version of Orwell's masterpiece offers a faithful interpretation, but it is THX 1138 that captures the very essence of its stark warning against totalitarianism.

~ Niall McCallum -

Michael Radford's film version of Orwell's masterpiece offers a faithful interpretation, but it is THX 1138 that captures the very essence of its stark warning against totalitarianism.

~ Niall McCallum -

As befits a film set on a rapid commuter train, the pace rarely lets up.

~ Owen Van Spall -

As befits a film set on a rapid commuter train, the pace rarely lets up.

~ Owen Van Spall -

It may look and, even on family terms, feel nostalgic but Lazarescu makes sure we're aware of the tough choices facing her characters.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

It may look and, even on family terms, feel nostalgic but Lazarescu makes sure we're aware of the tough choices facing her characters.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Definitely one of Arnie's best and a landmark action movie.

~ Gator MacReady -

Definitely one of Arnie's best and a landmark action movie.

~ Gator MacReady -

Though shot on cheap black-and-white film stock, NOTLD was the film that would turn the whole horror genre blood red, with its innovative use of graphically realistic gore effects.

~ Anton Bitel -

Though shot on cheap black-and-white film stock, NOTLD was the film that would turn the whole horror genre blood red, with its innovative use of graphically realistic gore effects.

~ Anton Bitel -

A Nightmare On Elm Street remains an atmospheric and genuinely unsettling film with a chilling, universally relatable central motif: sleep gets everyone in the end.

~ James Gracey -

A Nightmare On Elm Street remains an atmospheric and genuinely unsettling film with a chilling, universally relatable central motif: sleep gets everyone in the end.

~ James Gracey -

The use of handheld camera is more distracting than immersive and gives the film a dated air, while the script refuses to dig beyond surface accusations and hand-wringing about the state of society.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The use of handheld camera is more distracting than immersive and gives the film a dated air, while the script refuses to dig beyond surface accusations and hand-wringing about the state of society.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Mascaro is completely in control of his material.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Mascaro is completely in control of his material.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Whitman respects and relishes in Austen's creation but is no slave to it, inventing additional characters to help the story flow.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Whitman respects and relishes in Austen's creation but is no slave to it, inventing additional characters to help the story flow.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The randomness of death in times of war aside, Land Of Mine - perhaps unavoidably - leans towards the conventional in its overall narrative arc.

~ Rebecca Naughten -

The randomness of death in times of war aside, Land Of Mine - perhaps unavoidably - leans towards the conventional in its overall narrative arc.

~ Rebecca Naughten -

The histrionics on display submerge everything else while the narrative pitch throws so much at the spectator that it is impossible to sympathise with anyone.

~ Richard Mowe -

The histrionics on display submerge everything else while the narrative pitch throws so much at the spectator that it is impossible to sympathise with anyone.

~ Richard Mowe -

Directors looking for inspiration in how to get things done on a budget, could take a leaf out of Szabolcs Hajdu's book.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Directors looking for inspiration in how to get things done on a budget, could take a leaf out of Szabolcs Hajdu's book.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Taika Waititi knows growing up isn't child's play but he also respects childhood as a place of adventure, where spontaneity rules and the possibilities are only limited by imagination.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Taika Waititi knows growing up isn't child's play but he also respects childhood as a place of adventure, where spontaneity rules and the possibilities are only limited by imagination.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

It's too brainless and uncomplicated to make us think twice about the plot.

~ Gator MacReady -

It's too brainless and uncomplicated to make us think twice about the plot.

~ Gator MacReady -

Dangerously thin on purpose

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Dangerously thin on purpose

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Huppert's outstanding performance embraces with unswerving delicacy the controversial decisions she faces.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Huppert's outstanding performance embraces with unswerving delicacy the controversial decisions she faces.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

A ragbag of cliches that owe a debt to everything from Romeo and Juliet to THX 1138.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A ragbag of cliches that owe a debt to everything from Romeo and Juliet to THX 1138.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Certain Women is a film suffused in uncertainties.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Certain Women is a film suffused in uncertainties.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Taken as a whole, however, the director is trying too hard, pushing this family so far into caricature that we lose sight of the story of grief that is underpinning the shenanigans.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Taken as a whole, however, the director is trying too hard, pushing this family so far into caricature that we lose sight of the story of grief that is underpinning the shenanigans.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The closer the glance at the specifics, the more universal the plight becomes.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The closer the glance at the specifics, the more universal the plight becomes.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

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 -

History comes alive in the voices of those who remember it.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The choice of hand-drawn animation and its ability to demonstrate a magical realism allows the film to find the right distance from what is being depicted.

~ Richard Mowe -

Successfully finds insight and social commentary

~ Jeremy Mathews -

The pace of the action helps Handal to pack a lot in and his framing is inventive.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A Teacher is not the most finely crafted film, but it is a cri de cœur.

~ Jennie Kermode -

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 -

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 -

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 -