What you get out of Your Sister's Sister is likely to depend quite a bit on the audience you see it with.

~ Jennie Kermode -

What you get out of Your Sister's Sister is likely to depend quite a bit on the audience you see it with.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This is no chest-beating, flag-waving war movie, no propaganda for conflicts past, present or future, War Witch is the story of childhood destroyed, a country in flames and of how we survive the worst of what (in)humanity throws at us.

~ Neil Mitchell -

This is no chest-beating, flag-waving war movie, no propaganda for conflicts past, present or future, War Witch is the story of childhood destroyed, a country in flames and of how we survive the worst of what (in)humanity throws at us.

~ Neil Mitchell -

In the central role, Frieda Pinto shows that she has come of age, delivering the story's most powerful screen heroine yet.

~ Jennie Kermode -

In the central role, Frieda Pinto shows that she has come of age, delivering the story's most powerful screen heroine yet.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The idea of the cyclical nature of love and life is ripe for exploration and Margot is a pleasingly complex character, whose motivations are believable.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The idea of the cyclical nature of love and life is ripe for exploration and Margot is a pleasingly complex character, whose motivations are believable.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The product of around four years’ filming, Town Of Runners is impressive on several levels.

~ Emma Slawinski -

The product of around four years’ filming, Town Of Runners is impressive on several levels.

~ Emma Slawinski -

Some of the dialogue could be more polished, but the brutal honesty... makes up for it.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Some of the dialogue could be more polished, but the brutal honesty... makes up for it.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

A delightful experience for musos and the uninitiated alike, Searching For Sugar Man deserves to reach as wide an audience as its underdog hero eventually did himself.

~ David Graham -

A delightful experience for musos and the uninitiated alike, Searching For Sugar Man deserves to reach as wide an audience as its underdog hero eventually did himself.

~ David Graham -

You will learn a few things here, even if you are a film buff.

~ Owen Van Spall -

You will learn a few things here, even if you are a film buff.

~ Owen Van Spall -

Resolution is an excellent amalgamation of horror traits that also stands on its own two feet.

~ Michael Pattison -

Resolution is an excellent amalgamation of horror traits that also stands on its own two feet.

~ Michael Pattison -

The picture Edwin paints recalls the postcards of the title, both for good and ill.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The picture Edwin paints recalls the postcards of the title, both for good and ill.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The camera is always very close to the actors, in their faces, capturing what can only be done in fiction.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The camera is always very close to the actors, in their faces, capturing what can only be done in fiction.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Yi proves adept at documenting the tactile nature of Young-Chan's relationship with the world

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Yi proves adept at documenting the tactile nature of Young-Chan's relationship with the world

~ Amber Wilkinson -

With no hard endorsement from any sort of doctor or a counter-argument to kick against, the assertions regarding psychiatric drugs feel dangerously flimsy.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

With no hard endorsement from any sort of doctor or a counter-argument to kick against, the assertions regarding psychiatric drugs feel dangerously flimsy.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Essentially, this is Gerwig's natural charm versus her character and script's lack of it.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Essentially, this is Gerwig's natural charm versus her character and script's lack of it.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A gently paced but unsparing and unglamorous portrait of a gay relationship where love doesn't and perhaps never could conquer all.

~ Owen Van Spall -

A gently paced but unsparing and unglamorous portrait of a gay relationship where love doesn't and perhaps never could conquer all.

~ Owen Van Spall -

The only thing Martens takes seriously is his humour - and it pays off handsomely.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The only thing Martens takes seriously is his humour - and it pays off handsomely.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

It's rare to see a film that is at once so playful and so openly political.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It's rare to see a film that is at once so playful and so openly political.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Fawns completes the troika with a ringing emotional pop.

~ Paul Griffiths -

Fawns completes the troika with a ringing emotional pop.

~ Paul Griffiths -

This story of friendship between a Jewish couple and the tabloid journalist who rose to the top of Hitler's propaganda ministry has implications that echo down the generations, at once shocking and mundane.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This story of friendship between a Jewish couple and the tabloid journalist who rose to the top of Hitler's propaganda ministry has implications that echo down the generations, at once shocking and mundane.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Ruzowitzky bobs and weaves around the cliches in ways that lift Deadfall above many of its genre contemporaries.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Ruzowitzky bobs and weaves around the cliches in ways that lift Deadfall above many of its genre contemporaries.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Though its central narrative is slight, the film delivers it well and is refreshingly self-aware.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Though its central narrative is slight, the film delivers it well and is refreshingly self-aware.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Bonke and Keofoed have crafted a compelling portrait that asks questions about the nature and inherent dangers of competition, ambition, sacrifice and commitment both on and off the dance floor.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Bonke and Keofoed have crafted a compelling portrait that asks questions about the nature and inherent dangers of competition, ambition, sacrifice and commitment both on and off the dance floor.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Laugh out loud funny and heartbreaking without resorting to neat Hollywood set-ups or resolutions.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Laugh out loud funny and heartbreaking without resorting to neat Hollywood set-ups or resolutions.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Even a flawed film can sometimes produce that extra lightness in one's step.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Even a flawed film can sometimes produce that extra lightness in one's step.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

This was clearly a family affair for Delpy and a labour of love, but this film inevitably is taking a risk reheating the five-year-old meal that was 2 Days in Paris.

~ Owen Van Spall -

This was clearly a family affair for Delpy and a labour of love, but this film inevitably is taking a risk reheating the five-year-old meal that was 2 Days in Paris.

~ Owen Van Spall -

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 -

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 -

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 -

[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 -

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 -

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 -