This is a film about America's difficult relationship with race and the way that unresolved issues result in ongoing damage.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This is a film about America's difficult relationship with race and the way that unresolved issues result in ongoing damage.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Brunner clearly loves Norman - art for art's sake! - but fails to communicate how others have come to tolerate him.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Brunner clearly loves Norman - art for art's sake! - but fails to communicate how others have come to tolerate him.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Fortunately, McDormand never lets Mildred's hold on us slip, balancing the conundrum of a woman who is simultaneously a mum, who likes a beer and a game of pool, and a Rambo-style avenging angel.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Fortunately, McDormand never lets Mildred's hold on us slip, balancing the conundrum of a woman who is simultaneously a mum, who likes a beer and a game of pool, and a Rambo-style avenging angel.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A complex portrait of grief, Tom At The Farm is Dolan's strongest work to date, not least because of the performance he gives in the lead.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A complex portrait of grief, Tom At The Farm is Dolan's strongest work to date, not least because of the performance he gives in the lead.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Anchoring the audience with a perennial fence-sitter allows more room for the inevitable impact of the characters' stories, without the weight of an absolute ideological argument.

~ Luke Shaw -

Anchoring the audience with a perennial fence-sitter allows more room for the inevitable impact of the characters' stories, without the weight of an absolute ideological argument.

~ Luke Shaw -

Jones has been turning in consistently good work for years now and it’s high time he had a role like this. The art of it lies in how he keeps us alert to his character’s dangerous potential without ever letting us lose sight of his humanity.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Jones has been turning in consistently good work for years now and it’s high time he had a role like this. The art of it lies in how he keeps us alert to his character’s dangerous potential without ever letting us lose sight of his humanity.

~ Jennie Kermode -

On one level the film is pretty simple, though nicely put together - but what makes it more interesting are its moral and philosophical twists and turns.

~ Jennie Kermode -

On one level the film is pretty simple, though nicely put together - but what makes it more interesting are its moral and philosophical twists and turns.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It struck me how well Slattery handles the shifts in tone from hard boiled to hilarious throughout.

~ Owen Van Spall -

It struck me how well Slattery handles the shifts in tone from hard boiled to hilarious throughout.

~ Owen Van Spall -

There is something wrong, something odd about this place

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

There is something wrong, something odd about this place

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The script doesn't patronise its characters, showing they're just as capable of the best of actions and the worst as anybody else, but makes sure we understand the additional pressures they face.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The script doesn't patronise its characters, showing they're just as capable of the best of actions and the worst as anybody else, but makes sure we understand the additional pressures they face.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Lorne Balfe’s magnificent, melodic score shapes our sense of time passing, just as shots of the open desert, of the emptiness around the palace, add to our sense that all that history is present and immediate.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Lorne Balfe’s magnificent, melodic score shapes our sense of time passing, just as shots of the open desert, of the emptiness around the palace, add to our sense that all that history is present and immediate.

~ Jennie Kermode -

What should simply be a diverting no-brainer is made considerably harder to swallow by the script's shallow handling of some unsavoury subject matter.

~ David Graham -

What should simply be a diverting no-brainer is made considerably harder to swallow by the script's shallow handling of some unsavoury subject matter.

~ David Graham -

Neil Jordan skilfully examines the nature of time and the theme that he surveys like no other filmmaker - what it means to physically be in two places at once.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Neil Jordan skilfully examines the nature of time and the theme that he surveys like no other filmmaker - what it means to physically be in two places at once.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

As a first feature, it may not be totally surprising or very subtle, but it does have some impact, particularly visually.

~ Owen Van Spall -

As a first feature, it may not be totally surprising or very subtle, but it does have some impact, particularly visually.

~ Owen Van Spall -