It's in dance that the film's strength lies, illustrating, through choreography, Acosta's more abstract - and more negative - emotions, including fear, loneliness and lust.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

It's in dance that the film's strength lies, illustrating, through choreography, Acosta's more abstract - and more negative - emotions, including fear, loneliness and lust.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The film cuts every so often to one of the few monuments honouring the victims of Franco’s regime; faceless statues pierced with bullet holes on a deserted mountain side. The Silence Of Others puts real faces to these figures.

~ Emilia Rolewicz -

The film cuts every so often to one of the few monuments honouring the victims of Franco’s regime; faceless statues pierced with bullet holes on a deserted mountain side. The Silence Of Others puts real faces to these figures.

~ Emilia Rolewicz -

The writer/director casts his net wide, taking inspiration from auteurs like John Boorman and Sam Peckinpah through to freeze-frame moments that could slot straight into TV detective dramas of the time.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The writer/director casts his net wide, taking inspiration from auteurs like John Boorman and Sam Peckinpah through to freeze-frame moments that could slot straight into TV detective dramas of the time.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

It's difficult to express just what a bold piece of work this film is.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It's difficult to express just what a bold piece of work this film is.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Berlanga excels at the chaos of everyday life - the messiness of human interactions and the way in which lives randomly interconnect.

~ Rebecca Naughten -

Berlanga excels at the chaos of everyday life - the messiness of human interactions and the way in which lives randomly interconnect.

~ Rebecca Naughten -

Both Rodriguez and Rohana deliver delicate, nuanced performances in a story that revolves in large part around friendship.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Both Rodriguez and Rohana deliver delicate, nuanced performances in a story that revolves in large part around friendship.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Megias acquits himself well, presenting us with a complex character whose emotions run deep.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Megias acquits himself well, presenting us with a complex character whose emotions run deep.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The film is laced with both deadpan and sly humour, and is laugh out loud funny.

~ Rebecca Naughten -

The film is laced with both deadpan and sly humour, and is laugh out loud funny.

~ Rebecca Naughten -

The film contains grotesque violence and slapstick humour in a nonetheless affectionate take on the horror genre.

~ Rebecca Naughten -

The film contains grotesque violence and slapstick humour in a nonetheless affectionate take on the horror genre.

~ Rebecca Naughten -

The rituals set in motion at the start, also tune us into the wavelength of portent, so that a heron's feet on a rug or the sound of locusts carry at least as much threat as the site of a loaded gun.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The rituals set in motion at the start, also tune us into the wavelength of portent, so that a heron's feet on a rug or the sound of locusts carry at least as much threat as the site of a loaded gun.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

While the odds are, no doubt, stacked against her, Berneri gives Alanis a real sense of agency.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

While the odds are, no doubt, stacked against her, Berneri gives Alanis a real sense of agency.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

It should come as no surprise, given the kitsch and extravagant props and costumes, that the film has been co-produced by Pedro Almodovar and his brother Augustin.

~ Richard Mowe -

It should come as no surprise, given the kitsch and extravagant props and costumes, that the film has been co-produced by Pedro Almodovar and his brother Augustin.

~ Richard Mowe -

The stage begins to feel like the only space where anyone is honest, even when miming to somebody else's voice.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The stage begins to feel like the only space where anyone is honest, even when miming to somebody else's voice.

~ Jennie Kermode -

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 -

History comes alive in the voices of those who remember it.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The choice of hand-drawn animation and its ability to demonstrate a magical realism allows the film to find the right distance from what is being depicted.

~ Richard Mowe -

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 -

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 -