Exquisite.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Exquisite.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Truth be told, it is annoying as hell and becomes very tired, very quickly.

~ Robert Munro -

Truth be told, it is annoying as hell and becomes very tired, very quickly.

~ Robert Munro -

This is a film where the absence of action is the point, as it plays out like a joke-shorn version of Beckett's Waiting For Godot.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

This is a film where the absence of action is the point, as it plays out like a joke-shorn version of Beckett's Waiting For Godot.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

There is a charm and grace to this 'not' film that mirrors all of Panahi's previous filmic masterpieces.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

There is a charm and grace to this 'not' film that mirrors all of Panahi's previous filmic masterpieces.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

A lurching and uneven film, Sleeping Sickness resembles a dream.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A lurching and uneven film, Sleeping Sickness resembles a dream.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Almodóvar's trademark narrative divergence is in full effect but he keeps a delicious sense of control over his fabulously grotesque concoction.

~ David Graham -

Almodóvar's trademark narrative divergence is in full effect but he keeps a delicious sense of control over his fabulously grotesque concoction.

~ David Graham -

Fassbender and Mulligan burn white hot in the central pairing, their emotional maelstrom magnetic even when no dialogue is used.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Fassbender and Mulligan burn white hot in the central pairing, their emotional maelstrom magnetic even when no dialogue is used.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

There is a sense that we are glimpsing a society in flux.

~ Jennie Kermode -

There is a sense that we are glimpsing a society in flux.

~ Jennie Kermode -

If you see one dance film in your life, see this one with those 3D glasses.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

If you see one dance film in your life, see this one with those 3D glasses.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Once Upon A Time In Anatolia produces the most exciting boredom.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Once Upon A Time In Anatolia produces the most exciting boredom.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

You could wash your hair, play scrabble and still not miss the point.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

You could wash your hair, play scrabble and still not miss the point.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Naranjo never lets the tension slip and finds ways to make the situation worse for his hapless heroine while still keeping the narrative firmly in the realms of fact not fantasy.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Naranjo never lets the tension slip and finds ways to make the situation worse for his hapless heroine while still keeping the narrative firmly in the realms of fact not fantasy.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Lars von Trier's sublime invitation to the end of the world is a grand film by a master story teller who does not repeat himself.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Lars von Trier's sublime invitation to the end of the world is a grand film by a master story teller who does not repeat himself.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

As a moody, atmospheric study of paranoia, it is hard to beat.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

As a moody, atmospheric study of paranoia, it is hard to beat.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The Loneliest Planet spins a carefully constructed net around your imagination.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The Loneliest Planet spins a carefully constructed net around your imagination.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

In a world where everyone seems so lost, The Kid With A Bike will help you find your humanity again.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

In a world where everyone seems so lost, The Kid With A Bike will help you find your humanity again.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Director Aki Kaurismäki's latest is a humanist hug of a fable, which concludes that while big miracles may happen, it's the everyday 'miracles' people create for one another that really count.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Director Aki Kaurismäki's latest is a humanist hug of a fable, which concludes that while big miracles may happen, it's the everyday 'miracles' people create for one another that really count.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Perceptions make this film such a pleasure to watch. Everything feels believable, real, and thought through.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Perceptions make this film such a pleasure to watch. Everything feels believable, real, and thought through.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The initially breezy tone of the comedy gives way to a depiction of calculated cruelty monstrously vicious enough almost to qualify as horror, human enough to count as tragedy and nuanced enough to face viewers with a most unusual kind of dilemma, part in

~ Anton Bitel -

The initially breezy tone of the comedy gives way to a depiction of calculated cruelty monstrously vicious enough almost to qualify as horror, human enough to count as tragedy and nuanced enough to face viewers with a most unusual kind of dilemma, part in

~ Anton Bitel -

After seeing three films in and around the small town of Dreileben, the landscape has become familiar and inescapable.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

After seeing three films in and around the small town of Dreileben, the landscape has become familiar and inescapable.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The fantastic interrupts the profane.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The fantastic interrupts the profane.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Petzold exposes the social machinations behind the seemingly simple love stories.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Petzold exposes the social machinations behind the seemingly simple love stories.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Payne's premise resembles a dare: How can I make you care for a person who looks and acts like this? He works the Disney device of love at first sight in reverse.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Payne's premise resembles a dare: How can I make you care for a person who looks and acts like this? He works the Disney device of love at first sight in reverse.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Keira Knightley... will be tough to beat at next year's Academy Awards for her portrayal of Spielrein

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Keira Knightley... will be tough to beat at next year's Academy Awards for her portrayal of Spielrein

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The two central performances – Vianello’s bewildered, sensitive, lonely young girl and Cantalupo’s harassed moral inadequate – are pitch-perfect.

~ Jeff Robson -

The two central performances – Vianello’s bewildered, sensitive, lonely young girl and Cantalupo’s harassed moral inadequate – are pitch-perfect.

~ Jeff Robson -

Captivating and informative.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Captivating and informative.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Unlike many of his other films where there are underlying touches of humor, Polanski plays this one more as a straight comedy.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Unlike many of his other films where there are underlying touches of humor, Polanski plays this one more as a straight comedy.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

I cannot remember the last time a film made me cry and laugh out loud half a minute later, especially not in public. The Artist did that.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

I cannot remember the last time a film made me cry and laugh out loud half a minute later, especially not in public. The Artist did that.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

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 -