Better in its subtler moments, when it explores not just the difference between what is being filmed and reality by the fictions the characters are also inventing for themselves, the film is made compelling by its own immaculate casting.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Better in its subtler moments, when it explores not just the difference between what is being filmed and reality by the fictions the characters are also inventing for themselves, the film is made compelling by its own immaculate casting.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Young star Paul Kircher puts in an impressively sensitive and emotionally raw peformance.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Young star Paul Kircher puts in an impressively sensitive and emotionally raw peformance.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

There is a complete disregard for any kind of consequence or continuity in this film, and you know that the rug could be pulled from under you at any second.

~ Nikola Jovic -

There is a complete disregard for any kind of consequence or continuity in this film, and you know that the rug could be pulled from under you at any second.

~ Nikola Jovic -

Keys in to the ordinariness of certain kinds of horror and the ease with which they can take root in a society in which many men teeter on the edge of a moral abyss.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Keys in to the ordinariness of certain kinds of horror and the ease with which they can take root in a society in which many men teeter on the edge of a moral abyss.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The combination of Efira and Magimel proves magnetic.

~ Richard Mowe -

The combination of Efira and Magimel proves magnetic.

~ Richard Mowe -

As richly drawn as it is delicately handled.

~ Jennie Kermode -

As richly drawn as it is delicately handled.

~ Jennie Kermode -

While a specific killer may not be unmasked, toxic masculinity and its co-conspirator the patriarchal society stand in the dock - and the case against them is damning.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

While a specific killer may not be unmasked, toxic masculinity and its co-conspirator the patriarchal society stand in the dock - and the case against them is damning.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Filled with strong sentiment but without sentimentality.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Filled with strong sentiment but without sentimentality.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Moroccan-born Faucon directs with understated skill, never flinching from unpalatable truths.

~ Richard Mowe -

Moroccan-born Faucon directs with understated skill, never flinching from unpalatable truths.

~ Richard Mowe -

What, you might ask, is at the heart of the mystery? It's a good question and one that Pariser barely articulates.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

What, you might ask, is at the heart of the mystery? It's a good question and one that Pariser barely articulates.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

While it's a road well-travelled, here it's a road travelled well.

~ Andrew Robertson -

While it's a road well-travelled, here it's a road travelled well.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Desplechin fires off too many salvoes which hit wide of the mark

~ Richard Mowe -

Desplechin fires off too many salvoes which hit wide of the mark

~ Richard Mowe -

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 -

The anxious impact of the airport is also brought home to us by the crowded nature of the animation, its expressionist rendering emphasising the strangeness of this environment.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

For better or worse, Antonioni’s got his master stylist hat on here, even if it sometimes obscures his vision.

~ Antoni Konieczny -

Feels like a bite-sized companion piece to The Invasion

~ Amber Wilkinson -

There’s a good deal of depth and nuance to these relationships as Blichfeldt uses them to illustrate how a society which makes women dependent on men magnifies ever petty disagreement and sets them at odds with one another.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The cinematography is deliberately downbeat. The narrative meanders as its hero does.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Anno, while acknowledging the history through the use of archive and via her interviewees, firmly accentuates the positives and the strides that have been made.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

There’s no room here for the simple morality of the average horror film.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Though parts of the film are repetitive and others don’t quite knit together, there are some real gems hidden in there.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The plot is not the film’s strongest point, but it functions well enough as a device through which to explore a troubled relationship.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This is probably [Tsutsumi's] strangest film to date, its full-on, rapid fire style combining with a wild and not always coherent plot to exhaust most viewers in the first 15 minutes.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Ultimately. McClarnon’s biggest advantage lies in his cast.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The spectacular visual effects are less a product of slick new technology than of pure imagination, and they really are unforgettable.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A very safe means whereby viewers might start exploring their own emotions around the subject.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Pure joy from start to finish.

~ Anton Bitel -

Coogan is well cast in this tricky role, moving easily from humour to heartbreak..

~ Jennie Kermode -

I Am Love is social melodrama in the best traditions of Italian cinema.

~ Chris -

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 -