This film is long overdue.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This film is long overdue.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Filmed without commentary and with a poetic grace.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Filmed without commentary and with a poetic grace.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Gornostai avoids obvious narrative arcs in favour of just letting us hang out and observe the everyday challenges and small dramas that pepper the lives of these 16-year-olds.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Gornostai avoids obvious narrative arcs in favour of just letting us hang out and observe the everyday challenges and small dramas that pepper the lives of these 16-year-olds.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Although an intensely personal document, it's possible to see inside it, the bones of wider tensions in society.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Although an intensely personal document, it's possible to see inside it, the bones of wider tensions in society.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A masterpiece of visual storytelling.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A masterpiece of visual storytelling.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This is impressionistic filmmaking and the young director handles it with extraordinary confidence.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This is impressionistic filmmaking and the young director handles it with extraordinary confidence.

~ Jennie Kermode -

An astonishing arrival.

~ Andrew Robertson -

An astonishing arrival.

~ Andrew Robertson -

This is a clear-eyed view of the choices Jesmark and those like him are facing, showing just how complex the situation is, cutting beyond work to community and culture.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

This is a clear-eyed view of the choices Jesmark and those like him are facing, showing just how complex the situation is, cutting beyond work to community and culture.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

This film will only appeal to Araki fans who wish to discover his roots.

~ Darren Amner -

This film will only appeal to Araki fans who wish to discover his roots.

~ Darren Amner -

Shooting from odd angles, watching from above or tilting her camera up from below, Kim conveys both the crowded milieu within which her heroine lives and the sense of dislocation that the rape creates.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Shooting from odd angles, watching from above or tilting her camera up from below, Kim conveys both the crowded milieu within which her heroine lives and the sense of dislocation that the rape creates.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This is toxic masculinity masquerading as boredom, with Wenders' refusal to give it emotional adornment only adding to the sense of existential strangeness of the whole affair.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

This is toxic masculinity masquerading as boredom, with Wenders' refusal to give it emotional adornment only adding to the sense of existential strangeness of the whole affair.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Shot in handheld black and white with an obviously-low budget, it might seem rough – but what we’re watching is still pure Nolan.

~ Stephen Carty -

Shot in handheld black and white with an obviously-low budget, it might seem rough – but what we’re watching is still pure Nolan.

~ Stephen Carty -

Beshir keeps an eye on the natural environment as well as the sociopolitics, including the oppression of the Oromo people, while allowing a mythic element concerning the hunt for the water of life to flow alongside.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Beshir keeps an eye on the natural environment as well as the sociopolitics, including the oppression of the Oromo people, while allowing a mythic element concerning the hunt for the water of life to flow alongside.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

With jump cuts, fancy fades, and towels featuring cartoon owls and penguins, Amalia Ulman draws from her work as an artist and includes it seamlessly into the world of cinema.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

With jump cuts, fancy fades, and towels featuring cartoon owls and penguins, Amalia Ulman draws from her work as an artist and includes it seamlessly into the world of cinema.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Many doors are not very open, they give us merely a little glimpse into a strange world.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Many doors are not very open, they give us merely a little glimpse into a strange world.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

There’s sadness here for isolation and a grief that goes beyond the loss of a single life once lived. There’s also a heightened sense of the smaller absurdities of existence.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

There’s sadness here for isolation and a grief that goes beyond the loss of a single life once lived. There’s also a heightened sense of the smaller absurdities of existence.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

All Light, Everywhere examines the microscopic and vertiginous in equal, beguiling measure.

~ Matthew Anderson -

All Light, Everywhere examines the microscopic and vertiginous in equal, beguiling measure.

~ Matthew Anderson -

Aleph shows how big our world is, how manifold, how beautiful, and how the really important riddles are the same for everybody.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Aleph shows how big our world is, how manifold, how beautiful, and how the really important riddles are the same for everybody.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

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 -

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 -

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 -

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 -