There's such a warmth to the comedy here that the inevitable tragic sweep of the film feels all the more steeped in sadness.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

There's such a warmth to the comedy here that the inevitable tragic sweep of the film feels all the more steeped in sadness.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Overall, the story is a familiar one, with a predictably, one could even say, cliched tragic sweep - a well-trodden pioneer trail that while watchable for the fine performances, still feels overly stuck in a rut.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Overall, the story is a familiar one, with a predictably, one could even say, cliched tragic sweep - a well-trodden pioneer trail that while watchable for the fine performances, still feels overly stuck in a rut.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The writer/director deploys a deft amount of black humour but there's always a disturbing edge to the mood.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The writer/director deploys a deft amount of black humour but there's always a disturbing edge to the mood.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

This is a sensuous plunge into a world that's built on simple pleasures.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

This is a sensuous plunge into a world that's built on simple pleasures.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The scoring from Alejandro Otaola reinforces the otherworldly elements but the action feels underpowered by comparison.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The scoring from Alejandro Otaola reinforces the otherworldly elements but the action feels underpowered by comparison.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

With eloquent, understated performances from both leads and a willingness to take its time, Supernova explores not merely the issues they face but the life they share.

~ Jennie Kermode -

With eloquent, understated performances from both leads and a willingness to take its time, Supernova explores not merely the issues they face but the life they share.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Artfully confected and directed with a light touch, this is a layered yet knowingly insubstantial creation, un amour choux.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Artfully confected and directed with a light touch, this is a layered yet knowingly insubstantial creation, un amour choux.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Dosch is in her element here, bringing depth to every glance, captured by Pascal Granale not just in the thrust of sex but in more impressionistic interludes.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Dosch is in her element here, bringing depth to every glance, captured by Pascal Granale not just in the thrust of sex but in more impressionistic interludes.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

With beautifully drawn characters and superb performances all round, Icíar Bollaín's enchanting comedy draws viewers into a world where romance is not dependent on a committed relationship and love takes many different forms.

~ Jennie Kermode -

With beautifully drawn characters and superb performances all round, Icíar Bollaín's enchanting comedy draws viewers into a world where romance is not dependent on a committed relationship and love takes many different forms.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This new film, like all the others, has some of that old Woody sauce as well that gives it some charm, but it’s a mere shadow of its old self.

~ Nikola Jovic -

This new film, like all the others, has some of that old Woody sauce as well that gives it some charm, but it’s a mere shadow of its old self.

~ Nikola Jovic -

Following her subjects through the tangled streets, in an out of small concrete houses or under the archways and up the stairwells where they take shelter, Navas observes them almost as if she were filming a documentary, perhaps without permission.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Following her subjects through the tangled streets, in an out of small concrete houses or under the archways and up the stairwells where they take shelter, Navas observes them almost as if she were filming a documentary, perhaps without permission.

~ Jennie Kermode -

What worked so well in The Rider, namely that people were playing versions of themselves, falls flat because of the casting of McDormand in the lead.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

What worked so well in The Rider, namely that people were playing versions of themselves, falls flat because of the casting of McDormand in the lead.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

It is a portrait of loneliness and alienation, yes, but also of resourcefulness, resilience and unity.

~ Jeremy Mathews -

It is a portrait of loneliness and alienation, yes, but also of resourcefulness, resilience and unity.

~ Jeremy Mathews -

A beautifully observed portrait of a family in crisis.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A beautifully observed portrait of a family in crisis.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Alberdi keeps the tone light and profound simultaneously.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Alberdi keeps the tone light and profound simultaneously.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

For a short time, this cinematic jewel lets us travel back to when the migration of birds was a mystery to man.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

For a short time, this cinematic jewel lets us travel back to when the migration of birds was a mystery to man.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

There's a relaxed warmth to the, largely, lowkey events, that encourages us to cosy up to the family.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

There's a relaxed warmth to the, largely, lowkey events, that encourages us to cosy up to the family.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A film brimming with freshness in its ideas and their execution.

~ Robert Munro -

A film brimming with freshness in its ideas and their execution.

~ Robert Munro -

The personal is prominent, with Domalewski leaving the viewer to draw their own picture of the broader socio-economic failings of all this.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The personal is prominent, with Domalewski leaving the viewer to draw their own picture of the broader socio-economic failings of all this.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Yes, Herself is first and foremost a film about a woman's journey. It is also, in a smaller way, about another journey, from selfishness to community spirit.

~ Jane Fae -

Yes, Herself is first and foremost a film about a woman's journey. It is also, in a smaller way, about another journey, from selfishness to community spirit.

~ Jane Fae -

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 -

Zeller elegantly and scarily fuses dream logic with markers of past trauma.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Zeller elegantly and scarily fuses dream logic with markers of past trauma.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Mortensen seems to draw particular focus to the aggression, fear and pejoratives associated with neurological disorders - a side only ever faintly explored in cinema.

~ Stephanie Brown -

Mortensen seems to draw particular focus to the aggression, fear and pejoratives associated with neurological disorders - a side only ever faintly explored in cinema.

~ Stephanie Brown -

This is how the film plays out: loose and jumbled but still somehow telling a story. It's a style that suits its subject perfectly.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This is how the film plays out: loose and jumbled but still somehow telling a story. It's a style that suits its subject perfectly.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This is emotion in the raw, not just from those faced with the possibility of seeing someone else take on responsibility for their kids, but also from the advocates representing them who are being put through the emotional wringer as well.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

This is emotion in the raw, not just from those faced with the possibility of seeing someone else take on responsibility for their kids, but also from the advocates representing them who are being put through the emotional wringer as well.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The real-life clumsiness, the awkward pauses in human interactions are captured attentively; these are the most precise moments of the film.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The real-life clumsiness, the awkward pauses in human interactions are captured attentively; these are the most precise moments of the film.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The lengths of time the shots last and the camera angles that hide more context than they reveal are what formally is most striking about Beginning. But it is the story that sticks with you.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The lengths of time the shots last and the camera angles that hide more context than they reveal are what formally is most striking about Beginning. But it is the story that sticks with you.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Shot with a loose but observant style that captures energy and thoughtfulness in all the right places.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Shot with a loose but observant style that captures energy and thoughtfulness in all the right places.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Bethmann understands the situation well, but her closeness to the teenager and the personal character that the film takes on as a result is something else.

~ Jennie Kermode -

So carefully balanced is this that the film could almost have emerged as a romcom, and it’s that possibility, that clash between the absurdity that cinema has taught us to expect and the bitterness of real life, that makes it so effective.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Through the lens of the men’s romance, Onir takes in a good deal more, exploring the complex realities behind assumptions of prejudice and the myriad factors that go into making each of us who we are.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Throughout the film there is a sense of play, and even as the story evolves to take on darker material, something of that lightness, that happy-go-lucky quality remains.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The film hinges on amazing vocal work by Lalama.

~ Jennie Kermode -

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 -

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 -

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 -

The director shows how it’s not just Julie’s tennis skills that have been groomed by the coach but large aspects of her life.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

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 -