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 -

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 -

Time and place hold both no and every meaning in Christian Petzold's latest film.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Time and place hold both no and every meaning in Christian Petzold's latest film.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

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 -

Honoré handles the strands with considerable agility and admirable lack of cliché or sentimentality employing camerawork that is clean and uncluttered.

~ Richard Mowe -

Honoré handles the strands with considerable agility and admirable lack of cliché or sentimentality employing camerawork that is clean and uncluttered.

~ Richard Mowe -

The ‘narrative’ is simply a series of characters and events on which to hang material for various readings, and it is these readings that provide enjoyment.

~ Chris -

The ‘narrative’ is simply a series of characters and events on which to hang material for various readings, and it is these readings that provide enjoyment.

~ Chris -

Some may be dissuaded by the painstaking pace yet the tone manages to be both humorous and heart-rending at the same time.

~ Richard Mowe -

Some may be dissuaded by the painstaking pace yet the tone manages to be both humorous and heart-rending at the same time.

~ Richard Mowe -

Like Bergman's work, it might initially seem dry, but it's as rich in wit as it is in insight.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Like Bergman's work, it might initially seem dry, but it's as rich in wit as it is in insight.

~ 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 -

By the end, you pray for death - his or your own, whichever would end the boredom faster.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

By the end, you pray for death - his or your own, whichever would end the boredom faster.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Billingham's consideration calls for empathy rather than condemnation.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Billingham's consideration calls for empathy rather than condemnation.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

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 -

The film is an intelligent, technically proficient and complex critique of this period, weaving metaphors for the German body politic and psyche of the time.

~ Ben Sillis -

The film is an intelligent, technically proficient and complex critique of this period, weaving metaphors for the German body politic and psyche of the time.

~ Ben Sillis -

Often you see the truth in her face, not in her words.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Often you see the truth in her face, not in her words.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Patrick Orth's cinematography gives this a beguiling warmth but it's really Löw's performance that makes it work.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Patrick Orth's cinematography gives this a beguiling warmth but it's really Löw's performance that makes it work.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Introduzione all’Oscuro aims more for emotional beats and resonances than factual musings.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Introduzione all’Oscuro aims more for emotional beats and resonances than factual musings.

~ 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 -

Newcomer Tardiolo is splendid in the lead.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Newcomer Tardiolo is splendid in the lead.

~ Jennie Kermode -

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 -

Garrel knows his film is a confection rather than a banquet, so keeps things moving along at a serious clip

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Garrel knows his film is a confection rather than a banquet, so keeps things moving along at a serious clip

~ 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 -

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 -

Beautifully shot and articulated.

~ Richard Mowe -

Beautifully shot and articulated.

~ Richard Mowe -

Becky Parsons and John M Tran's cinematography brings out every detail of the crowded rooms before us and puts us to close to the grain of the wood that we can almost smell it.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Becky Parsons and John M Tran's cinematography brings out every detail of the crowded rooms before us and puts us to close to the grain of the wood that we can almost smell it.

~ 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 -

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 -

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 -

For those who know and love Van Gogh's work, the effect is hypnotic, a translation of his vision into a new medium.

~ Jennie Kermode -

For those who know and love Van Gogh's work, the effect is hypnotic, a translation of his vision into a new medium.

~ 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 -

There's a constant sense that war might return, a sense of urgency about cramming as much knowledge and wisdom as possible into the children before it's too late.

~ Jennie Kermode -

There's a constant sense that war might return, a sense of urgency about cramming as much knowledge and wisdom as possible into the children before it's too late.

~ 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 -

With so much going on the only shame is that at this length the pirouettes in various directions are so brief, giving us a taste for ideas that are begging to be dug into further.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

While the film is generally a delight, the increasingly surreal third act can be hard to track.

~ Antoni Konieczny -

A patient, affecting study of human connection in unusual circumstances

~ Antoni Konieczny -

The irreverent score, the gothic art direction, and Mario Tosi’s kaleidoscopic, slithering cinematography coalesce into something mesmeric.

~ Antoni Konieczny -

Like its subject, the film is a fusion of styles.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Fiennes is lean in look and in performance, bringing an intensity that proves compelling.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

An overflowing life is presented to us through archival interviews and film clips, and most revealingly through on-camera insights from O’Brien herself.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Fiennes is lean in look and in performance, bringing an intensity that proves compelling.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

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 -