This is a Jerry Bruckheimer approach to televising the revolution.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This is a Jerry Bruckheimer approach to televising the revolution.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Morality and mayhem make uncomfortable bedfellows

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Morality and mayhem make uncomfortable bedfellows

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Despite Messina's efforts, there is much to recommend the film, especially its beautiful slow shots that give the actresses room to do their thing.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Despite Messina's efforts, there is much to recommend the film, especially its beautiful slow shots that give the actresses room to do their thing.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Tseden takes an austere approach to framing, from the crisp black and white lensing of cinematographer Lu Songye to his long, fixed camera takes, with Tharlo almost always present.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Tseden takes an austere approach to framing, from the crisp black and white lensing of cinematographer Lu Songye to his long, fixed camera takes, with Tharlo almost always present.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Spotlight does not fall into the trap of explanatory flashbacks. We do not need to see the protagonists' past because we can tell so much from what they are wearing.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Spotlight does not fall into the trap of explanatory flashbacks. We do not need to see the protagonists' past because we can tell so much from what they are wearing.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Atom Egoyan's terrifically paced episodic thriller Remember is hard to forget.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Atom Egoyan's terrifically paced episodic thriller Remember is hard to forget.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

This is Catholic working class life beyond the limits of restraint where the concept of social order collapses and acts of individual kindness come as a surprise.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

This is Catholic working class life beyond the limits of restraint where the concept of social order collapses and acts of individual kindness come as a surprise.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Mascaro is completely in control of his material.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Mascaro is completely in control of his material.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Director Celia Rowlson-Hall, a dancer and choreographer, is able to make visible through movement what harms the soul.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Director Celia Rowlson-Hall, a dancer and choreographer, is able to make visible through movement what harms the soul.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Bertrand Tavernier has crafted a magnificent piece of work.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Bertrand Tavernier has crafted a magnificent piece of work.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Like a Brazilian Angela Carter, writer/director Anita Rocha da Silveira tells the story of a young woman emerging from a sheltered suburban world to walk a dark path, discovering the wild creature inside herself.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Like a Brazilian Angela Carter, writer/director Anita Rocha da Silveira tells the story of a young woman emerging from a sheltered suburban world to walk a dark path, discovering the wild creature inside herself.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The director has uncovered a wealth of archive material.

~ Richard Mowe -

The director has uncovered a wealth of archive material.

~ Richard Mowe -

The physicality and fluidity of adolesence are brought to the fore by Anna Rose Holmer in her tightly directed debut feature that avoids the bear traps of American coming-of-age cliche to offer a classy, thoughtful character study.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The physicality and fluidity of adolesence are brought to the fore by Anna Rose Holmer in her tightly directed debut feature that avoids the bear traps of American coming-of-age cliche to offer a classy, thoughtful character study.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The grandeur and beauty of the place is set against figures of climbers, like black ants, across a white wilderness

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The grandeur and beauty of the place is set against figures of climbers, like black ants, across a white wilderness

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

A ragbag of cliches that owe a debt to everything from Romeo and Juliet to THX 1138.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A ragbag of cliches that owe a debt to everything from Romeo and Juliet to THX 1138.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

This is a story of artists and models, the common outsider's perception that art is about creating fantasies, the much more challenging reality that it's about drawing out truth.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This is a story of artists and models, the common outsider's perception that art is about creating fantasies, the much more challenging reality that it's about drawing out truth.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The film is briskly paced, infused with energy and the backdrop remains interesting.

~ Owen Van Spall -

The film is briskly paced, infused with energy and the backdrop remains interesting.

~ Owen Van Spall -

After all, what’s so sinister about reading Aesop’s Fables? Everything and nothing, Corbet suggests.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

After all, what’s so sinister about reading Aesop’s Fables? Everything and nothing, Corbet suggests.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Hasei's story may be simple but it is warm, unsentimental and has plenty to recommend it, particularly for older children.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Hasei's story may be simple but it is warm, unsentimental and has plenty to recommend it, particularly for older children.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

It's true what they say about violence. Too much and you become immune.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

It's true what they say about violence. Too much and you become immune.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

You have to care for these people to give a damn. That's hard.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

You have to care for these people to give a damn. That's hard.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The result is a gripping, disturbing experience, though one which risks numbing as much as it informs or shocks viewers.

~ Owen Van Spall -

The result is a gripping, disturbing experience, though one which risks numbing as much as it informs or shocks viewers.

~ Owen Van Spall -

The art of Behemoth lies in the way it winds the viewer up in its quintessential narrative.

~ Jane Fae -

The art of Behemoth lies in the way it winds the viewer up in its quintessential narrative.

~ Jane Fae -

Emotionally, his film is fully loaded and he nimbly mixes the imagined horror of Mickey's situation with absurd humour and, on the rare moments there is time to draw breath, even a bit of pathos.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Emotionally, his film is fully loaded and he nimbly mixes the imagined horror of Mickey's situation with absurd humour and, on the rare moments there is time to draw breath, even a bit of pathos.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

His - and Johnson's - real triumph in Anomalisa comes in the smaller gestures and human moments

~ Amber Wilkinson -

His - and Johnson's - real triumph in Anomalisa comes in the smaller gestures and human moments

~ Amber Wilkinson -

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 -