Nicole Taylor's quickfire script provides great material for the actors to work with .

~ Jennie Kermode -

Nicole Taylor's quickfire script provides great material for the actors to work with .

~ Jennie Kermode -

Where this film becomes interesting is where it goes beyond geekery and emerges as a defence of evolving art.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Where this film becomes interesting is where it goes beyond geekery and emerges as a defence of evolving art.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The first thing that stands out about the film is the ease with which we can recognise Vai despite her being played by a different actress each time.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The first thing that stands out about the film is the ease with which we can recognise Vai despite her being played by a different actress each time.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Us is a deeply subversive film

~ Anton Bitel -

Us is a deeply subversive film

~ Anton Bitel -

A solid little film which delivers well within the scope of its simple ambition.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A solid little film which delivers well within the scope of its simple ambition.

~ Jennie Kermode -

As the sunny days pass and Bridget finds herself sinking into the job of caring for Frances more than she imagined, the warmth trickles into the corners of the film leaving cynicism no place to lurk.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

As the sunny days pass and Bridget finds herself sinking into the job of caring for Frances more than she imagined, the warmth trickles into the corners of the film leaving cynicism no place to lurk.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Smart, deceptively sophisticated and beautifully crafted, this is artisan cheese.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Smart, deceptively sophisticated and beautifully crafted, this is artisan cheese.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The directors, Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer, avoid horror comic clichés. In fact, they avoid clichés altogether.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The directors, Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer, avoid horror comic clichés. In fact, they avoid clichés altogether.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Alex Holmes' documentary is brilliant.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Alex Holmes' documentary is brilliant.

~ Andrew Robertson -

There's so much great material here that it would be impossible to make it into a dull film.

~ Jennie Kermode -

There's so much great material here that it would be impossible to make it into a dull film.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This is a film that never takes the easy route of eroticising its subject for the audience.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This is a film that never takes the easy route of eroticising its subject for the audience.

~ Jennie Kermode -

With beautifully drawn relationships and a fine central performance, The Garden Left Behind takes frequently politicised subject matter and reminds us of the human side of it.

~ Jennie Kermode -

With beautifully drawn relationships and a fine central performance, The Garden Left Behind takes frequently politicised subject matter and reminds us of the human side of it.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Lauryn Canny is stunning in the central role, easily adopting the same body language that Mcintosh has used continually to break away from conditioned patterns of movement and take up space.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Lauryn Canny is stunning in the central role, easily adopting the same body language that Mcintosh has used continually to break away from conditioned patterns of movement and take up space.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Schwarzenegger handles his role with a restraint unusual in actors his age, so that even viewers with a strong sense of what's coming will warm to him or wonder how bad he can really be.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Schwarzenegger handles his role with a restraint unusual in actors his age, so that even viewers with a strong sense of what's coming will warm to him or wonder how bad he can really be.

~ Jennie Kermode -

People who are hard work in real life can still make entertaining - even sympathetic - characters in films, and Rosenmeyer strikes this balance very effectively.

~ Jennie Kermode -

People who are hard work in real life can still make entertaining - even sympathetic - characters in films, and Rosenmeyer strikes this balance very effectively.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Gritty, grainy, colourful and unusually intimate, this is a film that sets out to defy expectations.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Gritty, grainy, colourful and unusually intimate, this is a film that sets out to defy expectations.

~ 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 -

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 -

It's laugh out loud funny in places, and there's an endearing earnestness throughout.

~ Andrew Robertson -

It's laugh out loud funny in places, and there's an endearing earnestness throughout.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Basagoitia is presented as such an archetypal hero that it's hard to get past that and see the man, the human being whose story could give the film real value.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Basagoitia is presented as such an archetypal hero that it's hard to get past that and see the man, the human being whose story could give the film real value.

~ Jennie Kermode -

One doesn't need to be religious to find something ineffable not just in the music itself but in the way it is expressed.

~ Jennie Kermode -

One doesn't need to be religious to find something ineffable not just in the music itself but in the way it is expressed.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The script is sharp, witty and not afraid to ask awkward questions.

~ Jane Fae -

The script is sharp, witty and not afraid to ask awkward questions.

~ Jane Fae -

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 -

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 -

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 -