Although much of Laaksonen's work was hardcore, Karukoski doesn't seek to 'shock' audiences with outrageousness, instead gracefully zoning in on the man and his life to celebrate his both his bravery and his art.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Although much of Laaksonen's work was hardcore, Karukoski doesn't seek to 'shock' audiences with outrageousness, instead gracefully zoning in on the man and his life to celebrate his both his bravery and his art.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Alexander Alexandrov's grimy cinematography shows us the dirt and the grit we have come to associate with working class Americans going off the rails, and applies it to well cared for suburban homes and cityscapes usually pictured as glamorous.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Alexander Alexandrov's grimy cinematography shows us the dirt and the grit we have come to associate with working class Americans going off the rails, and applies it to well cared for suburban homes and cityscapes usually pictured as glamorous.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Sweet Virginia is a simple story told very, very well.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Sweet Virginia is a simple story told very, very well.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The camera is always up close and the effect is to make us acutely aware of the smallness and familiarity of homes, the closeness - both physical and metaphorical - of family.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The camera is always up close and the effect is to make us acutely aware of the smallness and familiarity of homes, the closeness - both physical and metaphorical - of family.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Kain's finely judged performance is a joy to watch.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Kain's finely judged performance is a joy to watch.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Tarantino's talent for dialogue is what catapults Dogs into instant-classic status.

~ Gary Duncan -

Tarantino's talent for dialogue is what catapults Dogs into instant-classic status.

~ Gary Duncan -

It's more an assortment of clips showing Reagan doing what Reagan did best, which was to project a sort of all-pervasive bonhomie through the camera lens.

~ Jane Fae -

It's more an assortment of clips showing Reagan doing what Reagan did best, which was to project a sort of all-pervasive bonhomie through the camera lens.

~ Jane Fae -

Muldowney takes things seriously, with cinematographer Tom Comerford using the lowering skies and boggy heaviness to his advantage

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Muldowney takes things seriously, with cinematographer Tom Comerford using the lowering skies and boggy heaviness to his advantage

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Hall is one of the most capable performers of her generation and it's a delight to see what she can do with an intelligent script like this.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Hall is one of the most capable performers of her generation and it's a delight to see what she can do with an intelligent script like this.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Sarnet doesn't lack imagination and the unsettling mood that pervades the action is maintained throughout.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Sarnet doesn't lack imagination and the unsettling mood that pervades the action is maintained throughout.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Even though Newton is a stickler, there's an appealing purity to his views and he remains likeable almost despite himself.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Even though Newton is a stickler, there's an appealing purity to his views and he remains likeable almost despite himself.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

This is a sudden and astonishing arrival for an adult actor.

~ Andrew Robertson -

This is a sudden and astonishing arrival for an adult actor.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Brooks balances her documentary well, bringing together a web of intersecting stories and ensuring that what's emotive is also informative.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Brooks balances her documentary well, bringing together a web of intersecting stories and ensuring that what's emotive is also informative.

~ Jennie Kermode -

As sweet as it is bitter.

~ Jennie Kermode -

As sweet as it is bitter.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Keep The Change tells an intricate love story, featuring people we rarely get to see on the big screen

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Keep The Change tells an intricate love story, featuring people we rarely get to see on the big screen

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Berlinger has assembled an impressive parade of experts whose testimony is thorough and backed up by rare film footage and photographs from the time.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Berlinger has assembled an impressive parade of experts whose testimony is thorough and backed up by rare film footage and photographs from the time.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Takes a pragmatic approach to deconstructing a subject that could easily be overwhelming.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Takes a pragmatic approach to deconstructing a subject that could easily be overwhelming.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The film travels from Hip-Hop to humility, from red carpets, back to Posen's studies in London.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The film travels from Hip-Hop to humility, from red carpets, back to Posen's studies in London.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Simply observed, the story tells itself; the viewer is left to consider how reasonable each argument sounds, and to consider the way that the different arguments developed.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Simply observed, the story tells itself; the viewer is left to consider how reasonable each argument sounds, and to consider the way that the different arguments developed.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A masterpiece of restrained filmmaking

~ Chris -

A masterpiece of restrained filmmaking

~ Chris -

The documentary's greatest strength lies in the way Reynolds allows the scientific to mix with the philosophical and the deeply emotional.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The documentary's greatest strength lies in the way Reynolds allows the scientific to mix with the philosophical and the deeply emotional.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The proportion of films opening with HP Lovecraft quotes that manage to live up to the visionary writer's work verges on the infinitesimal, but The Endless is one of the special ones.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The proportion of films opening with HP Lovecraft quotes that manage to live up to the visionary writer's work verges on the infinitesimal, but The Endless is one of the special ones.

~ Jennie Kermode -

For the first hour or so of its runtime, Devil's Gate smoulders with tension, piling on one horror after another as its spins out its central mystery.

~ Jennie Kermode -

For the first hour or so of its runtime, Devil's Gate smoulders with tension, piling on one horror after another as its spins out its central mystery.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Leuenberger makes Nora's gradual awakening to gender issues feel like the sun coming out on a dreary day, brimful of unexpected warmth.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Leuenberger makes Nora's gradual awakening to gender issues feel like the sun coming out on a dreary day, brimful of unexpected warmth.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Heineman's film inevitably includes some tough-to-watch footage but he recognises the power in not always showing death.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Heineman's film inevitably includes some tough-to-watch footage but he recognises the power in not always showing death.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

As moving as it is disturbing.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

As moving as it is disturbing.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

As a film about non communication it feels real

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

As a film about non communication it feels real

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Her life story plays out like an adventure novel overflowing with intrigue.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Her life story plays out like an adventure novel overflowing with intrigue.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

This isn't a film for those interested in the nitty gritty of how work like this is assembled. Rather, its focus is on the philosophical and experiential issues associated with the rise of the machines.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This isn't a film for those interested in the nitty gritty of how work like this is assembled. Rather, its focus is on the philosophical and experiential issues associated with the rise of the machines.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The land is a major player in this otherwise small scale drama and the only thing that really keeps pace with Ryan’s performance.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The land is a major player in this otherwise small scale drama and the only thing that really keeps pace with Ryan’s performance.

~ Jennie Kermode -

We are quickly immersed in the action.

~ Jennie Kermode -

We are quickly immersed in the action.

~ 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 -

This is probably [Tsutsumi's] strangest film to date, its full-on, rapid fire style combining with a wild and not always coherent plot to exhaust most viewers in the first 15 minutes.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Ultimately. McClarnon’s biggest advantage lies in his cast.

~ 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 -