The film's scope is quite narrow but what it does, it does well.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The film's scope is quite narrow but what it does, it does well.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It's a quirky calling card but it's difficult to say how well this style would work if applied to a longer project.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It's a quirky calling card but it's difficult to say how well this style would work if applied to a longer project.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Every geeky sphere has its own nutters, and pinball is no exception, but Special When Lit treats them kindly, respectfully, and leaves any slightly mean sniggering up to the audience.

~ Keith Dudhnath -

Every geeky sphere has its own nutters, and pinball is no exception, but Special When Lit treats them kindly, respectfully, and leaves any slightly mean sniggering up to the audience.

~ Keith Dudhnath -

A strangely compelling and, at times, disturbing watch.

~ Paul Griffiths -

A strangely compelling and, at times, disturbing watch.

~ Paul Griffiths -

Modern Love Is Automatic has so much fun stuff going for it I was really willing it to be a better movie.

~ Chris -

Modern Love Is Automatic has so much fun stuff going for it I was really willing it to be a better movie.

~ Chris -

Mime-Mime’s frustrations eventually outweigh its rewards.

~ Emma Slawinski -

Mime-Mime’s frustrations eventually outweigh its rewards.

~ Emma Slawinski -

Kleinert pushes beyond the structural stuff, creating subtle and shifting dynamics between the characters, and introducing a supernatural threat lurking in the woods.

~ Emma Slawinski -

Kleinert pushes beyond the structural stuff, creating subtle and shifting dynamics between the characters, and introducing a supernatural threat lurking in the woods.

~ Emma Slawinski -

The real star here is creator Eromose.

~ Paul Griffiths -

The real star here is creator Eromose.

~ Paul Griffiths -

The lesbian tag need not restrict heterosexual aficionados of human relationships.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The lesbian tag need not restrict heterosexual aficionados of human relationships.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The real charm and humour comes from the characters’ feisty interplay.

~ Paul Griffiths -

The real charm and humour comes from the characters’ feisty interplay.

~ Paul Griffiths -

A mumblecore masterpiece.

~ George Williamson -

A mumblecore masterpiece.

~ George Williamson -

There’s nothing particularly radical about what Soderbergh is doing here.

~ Keith Hennessey Brown -

There’s nothing particularly radical about what Soderbergh is doing here.

~ Keith Hennessey Brown -

Exam drifts from being genuinely enigmatic and moody to derivative, disappointing, even ridiculous.

~ Anton Bitel -

Exam drifts from being genuinely enigmatic and moody to derivative, disappointing, even ridiculous.

~ Anton Bitel -

The film deserves praise for its maturity around sexuality.

~ Andrew Robertson -

The film deserves praise for its maturity around sexuality.

~ Andrew Robertson -

By mixing the situations of a crime drama with dysfunctional family dynamics, the everyday becomes accentuated, meaning that outbreaks of violence are absurdly comic but still retain a nasty edge.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

By mixing the situations of a crime drama with dysfunctional family dynamics, the everyday becomes accentuated, meaning that outbreaks of violence are absurdly comic but still retain a nasty edge.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Much of the plot reads as a barely tempered collection of cliches, but in the hands of writer/director Justin Molotnikov, and McCole's runaway success, becomes a highly effective character study and a well-constructed psychological thriller.

~ Scott Macdonald -

Much of the plot reads as a barely tempered collection of cliches, but in the hands of writer/director Justin Molotnikov, and McCole's runaway success, becomes a highly effective character study and a well-constructed psychological thriller.

~ Scott Macdonald -

This is an intelligent, moving depiction of a world gone to hell, dripping with the melancholy of a ‘hero’ still driven by a yearning from his past that he is incapable any longer of understanding.

~ Anton Bitel -

This is an intelligent, moving depiction of a world gone to hell, dripping with the melancholy of a ‘hero’ still driven by a yearning from his past that he is incapable any longer of understanding.

~ Anton Bitel -

The narration by Nick Cave lends this film a creepiness that goes way beyond the scope of its central poem.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The narration by Nick Cave lends this film a creepiness that goes way beyond the scope of its central poem.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Director Patxi Amézcua sets the pace carefully – it’s fast enough to keep your heart-rate up but not in that forced, dizzying, blink-and-you’ll miss it style with which Hollywood is so enamoured.

~ Emma Slawinski -

Director Patxi Amézcua sets the pace carefully – it’s fast enough to keep your heart-rate up but not in that forced, dizzying, blink-and-you’ll miss it style with which Hollywood is so enamoured.

~ Emma Slawinski -

With such powerful subject matter it would be difficult to make a film that didn't leave an impression.

~ Jennie Kermode -

With such powerful subject matter it would be difficult to make a film that didn't leave an impression.

~ 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 -

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 -

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 -