There’s a balance of energies here that we rarely see onscreen.

~ Jennie Kermode -

There’s a balance of energies here that we rarely see onscreen.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A satirical look at the experience of navigating relationships within a small dating pool.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A satirical look at the experience of navigating relationships within a small dating pool.

~ Jennie Kermode -

What does it mean when a woman cannot control the visual language through which her body is presented?

~ Jennie Kermode -

What does it mean when a woman cannot control the visual language through which her body is presented?

~ Jennie Kermode -

Unliveable has more questions that answers but it’s beautifully performed.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Unliveable has more questions that answers but it’s beautifully performed.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Whilst this isn’t the first Indian film to tackle homophobia – or even the first about Muslims – it breaks new ground in the way it develops these themes.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Whilst this isn’t the first Indian film to tackle homophobia – or even the first about Muslims – it breaks new ground in the way it develops these themes.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Blending film and animation, this film takes a sidelong look at bodies and what it means to be bodied.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Blending film and animation, this film takes a sidelong look at bodies and what it means to be bodied.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Real finds humour and warmth in socially awkward situations anyone can relate to.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Real finds humour and warmth in socially awkward situations anyone can relate to.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Directing with a light touch, January Jones coaxes fresh, natural performances from her stars.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Directing with a light touch, January Jones coaxes fresh, natural performances from her stars.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This Oscar-nominated short packs a lot of ideas into its 19 minute runtime.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This Oscar-nominated short packs a lot of ideas into its 19 minute runtime.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Jack teases apart aspects of a code in which most of us are fluent but which is almost all learned, cultural.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Jack teases apart aspects of a code in which most of us are fluent but which is almost all learned, cultural.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Fitzgerald finds numerous ways in which Catholicism and queer culture employ similar tropes to similar ends.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Fitzgerald finds numerous ways in which Catholicism and queer culture employ similar tropes to similar ends.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Barnett excels at capturing nuances of expression and action.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Barnett excels at capturing nuances of expression and action.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Birthday Boy does an excellent job of picking up on the microaggressions that affect kids in these situations.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Birthday Boy does an excellent job of picking up on the microaggressions that affect kids in these situations.

~ Jennie Kermode -

There’s a blatant challenge here to common expectations about the lives of Deaf and hearing-impaired people.

~ Jennie Kermode -

There’s a blatant challenge here to common expectations about the lives of Deaf and hearing-impaired people.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Ernst invites viewers to engage with a cis character whom many will find easier to relate to and, through this, shows them what the world really looks like the other way round.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Ernst invites viewers to engage with a cis character whom many will find easier to relate to and, through this, shows them what the world really looks like the other way round.

~ 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 -

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 -

Pure joy from start to finish.

~ Anton Bitel -

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

~ Amber Wilkinson -

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 -

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 -

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 -