It is as though the cast and scriptwriters are constantly nodding to one another and admiring their own cleverness.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

It is as though the cast and scriptwriters are constantly nodding to one another and admiring their own cleverness.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The content and the editing of this documentary are sharp... Poignant and a call to action.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The content and the editing of this documentary are sharp... Poignant and a call to action.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Worlds Apart is an assured, confident little film which takes a nuanced approach to a complex subject.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Worlds Apart is an assured, confident little film which takes a nuanced approach to a complex subject.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A staggering and petrifying insight into the very real dangers faced by Al-Daradji and his crew.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A staggering and petrifying insight into the very real dangers faced by Al-Daradji and his crew.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

What really hold the attention in this playful comedy are the central perfomances.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

What really hold the attention in this playful comedy are the central perfomances.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Energetic, immediate and defiantly hopeful.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Energetic, immediate and defiantly hopeful.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Morris has certainly achieved a gloss that Kennedy's previous work lacked but at a cost to the factual content.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Morris has certainly achieved a gloss that Kennedy's previous work lacked but at a cost to the factual content.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

As the shiny roadsters perform death defying stunts to get to the chequered flag, I defy the greenest carphobe not to feel their pulse racing.

~ Jeff Robson -

As the shiny roadsters perform death defying stunts to get to the chequered flag, I defy the greenest carphobe not to feel their pulse racing.

~ Jeff Robson -

Meadows' film oozes quality. The scripting feels natural and, thanks to long takes, Meadows is able to get the best performances from his young leads.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Meadows' film oozes quality. The scripting feels natural and, thanks to long takes, Meadows is able to get the best performances from his young leads.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

There is no justice in poverty and there is no justice here.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

There is no justice in poverty and there is no justice here.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Always engrossing, at times decidedly uncomfortable viewing, Savage Grace is accomplished cinematic storytelling that will stay with you long after the credits have rolled.

~ Paul Griffiths -

Always engrossing, at times decidedly uncomfortable viewing, Savage Grace is accomplished cinematic storytelling that will stay with you long after the credits have rolled.

~ Paul Griffiths -

Both gripping morality tale and satisfying thriller.

~ The Exile -

Both gripping morality tale and satisfying thriller.

~ The Exile -

With its simple plot and gentle pacing, Quiet Chaos relies on character and performance to keep viewers interested, and for the most part it pulls it off well.

~ Jennie Kermode -

With its simple plot and gentle pacing, Quiet Chaos relies on character and performance to keep viewers interested, and for the most part it pulls it off well.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Although filling the watcher with the same sort of outrage that inspired the women to stand up and be counted, this is, at heart, a testimony to the power of solidarity and sisterhood through a single purpose.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Although filling the watcher with the same sort of outrage that inspired the women to stand up and be counted, this is, at heart, a testimony to the power of solidarity and sisterhood through a single purpose.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Sikumi is certainly stark, and yet there is room even in this cold, austere backdrop for the warmth of the human spirit.

~ Anton Bitel -

Sikumi is certainly stark, and yet there is room even in this cold, austere backdrop for the warmth of the human spirit.

~ Anton Bitel -

This is what Westerns, and movies as a whole, are all about.

~ Jeff Robson -

This is what Westerns, and movies as a whole, are all about.

~ Jeff Robson -

While there is nothing wrong with a fly-on-the-wall attitude to documentary making, more facts and a little number-crunching would go a long way to bolstering Gaja’s argument.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

While there is nothing wrong with a fly-on-the-wall attitude to documentary making, more facts and a little number-crunching would go a long way to bolstering Gaja’s argument.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

One man's quirky, hilarious, and ultimately moving examination of where he has come from, and what he has lost along the way.

~ Anton Bitel -

One man's quirky, hilarious, and ultimately moving examination of where he has come from, and what he has lost along the way.

~ Anton Bitel -

The glorious sight of a flying nun, an image Korine has said was one of his inspirations for the film, is both a moving and a joyous one.

~ Paul Griffiths -

The glorious sight of a flying nun, an image Korine has said was one of his inspirations for the film, is both a moving and a joyous one.

~ Paul Griffiths -

Its sense of humour and verve are enough to commend it to any viewer.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Its sense of humour and verve are enough to commend it to any viewer.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Enjoyable, adventurous and unpredictable.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Enjoyable, adventurous and unpredictable.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

This little gem has a narrative structure that Hollywood movies seem to have forgotten how to employ - all the ingredients for a classic thriller are here.

~ Tony Sullivan -

This little gem has a narrative structure that Hollywood movies seem to have forgotten how to employ - all the ingredients for a classic thriller are here.

~ Tony Sullivan -

An intimate venue coupled with incredibly energetic and heart-felt performances from Reed, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus and a string and brass section to die for make for a moving experience.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

An intimate venue coupled with incredibly energetic and heart-felt performances from Reed, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus and a string and brass section to die for make for a moving experience.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

It is frequently not what you see but what you hear which holds the horror.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

It is frequently not what you see but what you hear which holds the horror.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

It is the unspoken experience, the agony that is Iraq, which hangs so heavy in the vacuum between what you see and what you imagine.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

It is the unspoken experience, the agony that is Iraq, which hangs so heavy in the vacuum between what you see and what you imagine.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Utterly bonkers but brimming with ingenuity.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Utterly bonkers but brimming with ingenuity.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

While the film isn’t a complete success it’s still a powerful, heartfelt take on the cruelties of which people can be capable – and the courage and nobility they can display in their determination to find out the truth.

~ Jeff Robson -

While the film isn’t a complete success it’s still a powerful, heartfelt take on the cruelties of which people can be capable – and the courage and nobility they can display in their determination to find out the truth.

~ Jeff Robson -

Although this is, in part, a darkly comic exploration of man's inhumanity to man, there is a current of optimism, flowing like the artwork, beneath the story.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Although this is, in part, a darkly comic exploration of man's inhumanity to man, there is a current of optimism, flowing like the artwork, beneath the story.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

If only more sport were filmed like this, it might gain a whole new audience.

~ Jennie Kermode -

If only more sport were filmed like this, it might gain a whole new audience.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Once the walls start to move, there's barely a moment to catch your breath as sharp editing, clever camera angles and good use of sound, squeeze the tension of every moment.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Once the walls start to move, there's barely a moment to catch your breath as sharp editing, clever camera angles and good use of sound, squeeze the tension of every moment.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The trouble is that the action never quite gels as it should.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The trouble is that the action never quite gels as it should.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

This film is adapted from a stage play by Eugene O'Brien and has made the transition to screen very smoothly.

~ George Williamson -

This film is adapted from a stage play by Eugene O'Brien and has made the transition to screen very smoothly.

~ George Williamson -

Dwyer has taken this cinematically uncharted landscape and, like the convict runners of old, transported to it all manner of unsavoury foreign elements.

~ Anton Bitel -

Dwyer has taken this cinematically uncharted landscape and, like the convict runners of old, transported to it all manner of unsavoury foreign elements.

~ Anton Bitel -

Aside from a slight flabbiness in some areas, Kechiche is to be praised for exploring the nature of change on a personal and a community level - and packing the result with some emotional wallop.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Aside from a slight flabbiness in some areas, Kechiche is to be praised for exploring the nature of change on a personal and a community level - and packing the result with some emotional wallop.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Taken as a straightforward comic horror movie, this feels too derivative and clichéd. Taken as homage or pastiche, it's not nearly funny, knowing or camp enough.

~ Susanna Krawczyk -

Taken as a straightforward comic horror movie, this feels too derivative and clichéd. Taken as homage or pastiche, it's not nearly funny, knowing or camp enough.

~ Susanna Krawczyk -

Viewer expectations, like that of the immigrants, are confounded as the hard-hitting consequences of this bleak act of humanity play out.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Viewer expectations, like that of the immigrants, are confounded as the hard-hitting consequences of this bleak act of humanity play out.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Roache acquits himself well, but the rest of the cast clearly struggle with the awful dialogue.

~ Max Crawford -

Roache acquits himself well, but the rest of the cast clearly struggle with the awful dialogue.

~ Max Crawford -

There are some nice set pieces here and there but, like the air on Terra, everything feels stodgier than normal.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

There are some nice set pieces here and there but, like the air on Terra, everything feels stodgier than normal.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Easily the best comedy I saw in 2008 and the first I can remember in years that I’ve wanted to immediately watch again.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Easily the best comedy I saw in 2008 and the first I can remember in years that I’ve wanted to immediately watch again.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The runt of a bountiful litter.

~ Anton Bitel -

The runt of a bountiful litter.

~ Anton Bitel -

The voyeuristic experience of watching their unpleasant exhibitionism becomes a very alienating experience and as a result it is increasingly difficult to engage with, or indeed care about, any of the characters.

~ Adam Micklethwaite -

The voyeuristic experience of watching their unpleasant exhibitionism becomes a very alienating experience and as a result it is increasingly difficult to engage with, or indeed care about, any of the characters.

~ Adam Micklethwaite -

The long wordless opening of 2001 remains one of the most beautiful sequences on film.

~ Nicola Osborne -

The long wordless opening of 2001 remains one of the most beautiful sequences on film.

~ Nicola Osborne -

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 -