Its slow, observational style allows us to get much closer to the key figures and explore aspects of motive which are commonly lost.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Its slow, observational style allows us to get much closer to the key figures and explore aspects of motive which are commonly lost.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This fine array of actors is charged with safeguarding a plot as weak and confused as a newborn kitten.

~ Max Crawford -

This fine array of actors is charged with safeguarding a plot as weak and confused as a newborn kitten.

~ Max Crawford -

Watching the film, which refreshingly tells the story from Wallis's perspective, you begin to wonder what on earth Madonna was thinking when she decided to tack on a framing device involving a modern Manhattanite's abusive relationship.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Watching the film, which refreshingly tells the story from Wallis's perspective, you begin to wonder what on earth Madonna was thinking when she decided to tack on a framing device involving a modern Manhattanite's abusive relationship.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Marsh takes no prisoners, makes no apologies and kicks you when you're down, all of which makes his films dangerous, inifinitely watchable and almost unbearably surprising.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Marsh takes no prisoners, makes no apologies and kicks you when you're down, all of which makes his films dangerous, inifinitely watchable and almost unbearably surprising.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

It's Riseborough who carries it, and on whose carefully judged performance its emotional twists and turns depend.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It's Riseborough who carries it, and on whose carefully judged performance its emotional twists and turns depend.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Cronenberg is most certainly David’s son, and while he’d probably prefers to avoid comparisons, his proclivity towards jarring imagery and shocking material instantly calls to mind his father's work.

~ Jeremy Mathews -

Cronenberg is most certainly David’s son, and while he’d probably prefers to avoid comparisons, his proclivity towards jarring imagery and shocking material instantly calls to mind his father's work.

~ Jeremy Mathews -

There are layers and layers of humour here, sometimes rooted in queer and theatrical traditions but mostly accessible regardless.

~ Jennie Kermode -

There are layers and layers of humour here, sometimes rooted in queer and theatrical traditions but mostly accessible regardless.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The slow-burning two-hander first half gives way to a revelation-heavy final hour, where every new sub-Shyamalan surprise only confirms how much Oblivion is ripped off from superior sci-fi that knows its game better.

~ David Graham -

The slow-burning two-hander first half gives way to a revelation-heavy final hour, where every new sub-Shyamalan surprise only confirms how much Oblivion is ripped off from superior sci-fi that knows its game better.

~ David Graham -

This is a study of bitter, sorry people hurting each other using ancient memories, propelled like bullets via the power of fiction.

~ Owen Van Spall -

This is a study of bitter, sorry people hurting each other using ancient memories, propelled like bullets via the power of fiction.

~ Owen Van Spall -

An intense character study in triplicate, made gripping both by the deliberately ambiguous way in which Christina Choe approaches everyone's mental state and by the performances.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

An intense character study in triplicate, made gripping both by the deliberately ambiguous way in which Christina Choe approaches everyone's mental state and by the performances.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The film only lives up to about 80% of the promise whereas I wanted 150%.

~ Owen Van Spall -

The film only lives up to about 80% of the promise whereas I wanted 150%.

~ Owen Van Spall -

This is one of those films you keep hoping will step up a gear while slowly realising it won’t.

~ Jeff Robson -

This is one of those films you keep hoping will step up a gear while slowly realising it won’t.

~ Jeff Robson -

I can't understand why anyone put this film into production.

~ Scott Macdonald -

I can't understand why anyone put this film into production.

~ Scott Macdonald -

Told in an accessible and reassuringly crowd-pleasing way.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Told in an accessible and reassuringly crowd-pleasing way.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A moment perfectly captured.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A moment perfectly captured.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Durra isn't looking to make anything so simple as a romantic drama, though that element is there, but instead to consider what lies beneath Hana's words in terms as she grapples in the liminal space between her past and her future.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Durra isn't looking to make anything so simple as a romantic drama, though that element is there, but instead to consider what lies beneath Hana's words in terms as she grapples in the liminal space between her past and her future.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Winslet performance holds a powerful sway, embracing Lee’s abrasive and conflicted personality and viewing the horrors with an analytical eye and a sense of bravado as well as despair.

~ Richard Mowe -

Winslet performance holds a powerful sway, embracing Lee’s abrasive and conflicted personality and viewing the horrors with an analytical eye and a sense of bravado as well as despair.

~ Richard Mowe -

If you have ever laughed at the headmaster when he slips on an egg yoke this movie is for you

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

If you have ever laughed at the headmaster when he slips on an egg yoke this movie is for you

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Succumbing to rather too much melodrama in the final third, which undercuts the chilliness of what has gone before, this is nonetheless an interesting debut that promises better to come.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Succumbing to rather too much melodrama in the final third, which undercuts the chilliness of what has gone before, this is nonetheless an interesting debut that promises better to come.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

There's some great black comedy here, at times spectacularly cruel.

~ Jennie Kermode -

There's some great black comedy here, at times spectacularly cruel.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Everything feels alive and the production design by Judy Becker is impeccable.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Everything feels alive and the production design by Judy Becker is impeccable.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

David O Russell's latest - a shaggy dog mystery with a deliberate air of penny dreadfuls - could do with more straightforward narrative and fewer screwball convolutions.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

David O Russell's latest - a shaggy dog mystery with a deliberate air of penny dreadfuls - could do with more straightforward narrative and fewer screwball convolutions.

~ Amber Wilkinson -