The camera embraces each of their stories with a lot of heart and imaginative curiosity.

~ Sergiu Inizian -

The camera embraces each of their stories with a lot of heart and imaginative curiosity.

~ Sergiu Inizian -

[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 -

[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 -

It's a nonsense, but when the storytelling is this good it doesn't matter.

~ Scott Macdonald -

It's a nonsense, but when the storytelling is this good it doesn't matter.

~ Scott Macdonald -

Ott’s interest is not in creating an accurate depiction of exactly what happened in the run-up to the Oklahoma City bombing, but rather in exploring the thought processes behind it.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Ott’s interest is not in creating an accurate depiction of exactly what happened in the run-up to the Oklahoma City bombing, but rather in exploring the thought processes behind it.

~ Jennie Kermode -

As the directors patiently capture the lives of Workinesh, Motto and Beti, a shared theme of familial hardship emerges.

~ Sergiu Inizian -

As the directors patiently capture the lives of Workinesh, Motto and Beti, a shared theme of familial hardship emerges.

~ Sergiu Inizian -

Hinton’s documentary visually points to all the complicated, often triangular entanglements.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Hinton’s documentary visually points to all the complicated, often triangular entanglements.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

It might be too much to expect a film to tell a bigger story, but that hope is borne in part because it doesn't really manage to tell a smaller one.

~ Andrew Robertson -

It might be too much to expect a film to tell a bigger story, but that hope is borne in part because it doesn't really manage to tell a smaller one.

~ Andrew Robertson -

The characters speak naturally about the things in their life, and the film trusts us to piece together the essential information.

~ Jeremy Mathews -

The characters speak naturally about the things in their life, and the film trusts us to piece together the essential information.

~ Jeremy Mathews -

Handsomely mounted and costumed with enough sparks and pace to quicken the interest and heighten the senses.

~ Richard Mowe -

Handsomely mounted and costumed with enough sparks and pace to quicken the interest and heighten the senses.

~ Richard Mowe -

While the women’s relationship with one another may be strong as houses, Azimi opens a window to the precarity of the industry.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

While the women’s relationship with one another may be strong as houses, Azimi opens a window to the precarity of the industry.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Martin Gschlacht’s glorious and smart cinematography adds clarity here while sprinkling doubt over there.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Martin Gschlacht’s glorious and smart cinematography adds clarity here while sprinkling doubt over there.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Darkest Miriam makes use of absurdist humour to explore the sense of unreality that…bereavement can create.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Darkest Miriam makes use of absurdist humour to explore the sense of unreality that…bereavement can create.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A deep understand of the period and cultural context gives it a weight of authenticity.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A deep understand of the period and cultural context gives it a weight of authenticity.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Though likely a little too whimsical for some, Boys Go To Jupiter seems destined to develop a cult following.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Though likely a little too whimsical for some, Boys Go To Jupiter seems destined to develop a cult following.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Filled with awkwardness and tension, the film acts as a spotlight for all the actors.

~ Jeremy Mathews -

Filled with awkwardness and tension, the film acts as a spotlight for all the actors.

~ Jeremy Mathews -

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 -

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 -