The film is well-served by its genre action sequences but it's the traces of grief that linger longest, like footsteps in the snow.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The film is well-served by its genre action sequences but it's the traces of grief that linger longest, like footsteps in the snow.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The performances from the central three child actors are refreshingly good.

~ George Williamson -

The performances from the central three child actors are refreshingly good.

~ George Williamson -

The Town sets aside stylish thriller tropes in favour of realism, which makes the action scenes a lot more visceral and the characters rougher round the edges.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The Town sets aside stylish thriller tropes in favour of realism, which makes the action scenes a lot more visceral and the characters rougher round the edges.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This is an uneven directorial debut - but not an unaccomplished one.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

This is an uneven directorial debut - but not an unaccomplished one.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

S.W.A.T rhymes with R.O.T. Certain facts rise above the trivial. Not this one.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

S.W.A.T rhymes with R.O.T. Certain facts rise above the trivial. Not this one.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

What finally raises the film above its somewhat programmatic, fight-the-power formula is its willingness to provide a believable context for the abuse.

~ The Exile -

What finally raises the film above its somewhat programmatic, fight-the-power formula is its willingness to provide a believable context for the abuse.

~ The Exile -

Succeeds in grabbing your attention but doesn't really deliver what it seems to promise.

~ Keith Hennessey Brown -

Succeeds in grabbing your attention but doesn't really deliver what it seems to promise.

~ Keith Hennessey Brown -

There is the air of a dysfunctional family agreeing to get together for Auntie Sheila’s wedding.

~ Sophie Monks-Kaufman -

There is the air of a dysfunctional family agreeing to get together for Auntie Sheila’s wedding.

~ Sophie Monks-Kaufman -

Director Baltasar Kormakur’s gripping thriller is inspired by classic noir - the cinematography is as bleak as the story and there is no neat happy ending.

~ Leanne McGrath -

Director Baltasar Kormakur’s gripping thriller is inspired by classic noir - the cinematography is as bleak as the story and there is no neat happy ending.

~ Leanne McGrath -

An unrelenting, absolutely riveting and often unflattering portrait of frontline action through the eyes of brave people doing their best to survive.

~ Trinity -

An unrelenting, absolutely riveting and often unflattering portrait of frontline action through the eyes of brave people doing their best to survive.

~ Trinity -

It might not be designed to win any of this season's awards or linger in the memory, but this is a hell of a lot more fun than other recent fairy-tale reboots.

~ David Graham -

It might not be designed to win any of this season's awards or linger in the memory, but this is a hell of a lot more fun than other recent fairy-tale reboots.

~ David Graham -

Perhaps most surprising is how slight it feels.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Perhaps most surprising is how slight it feels.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Save your grey matter for coordinating the movement of your hand to your mouth, or your jaw to the sticky cinema floor.

~ Max Crawford -

Save your grey matter for coordinating the movement of your hand to your mouth, or your jaw to the sticky cinema floor.

~ Max Crawford -

It is a character piece, an actor’s picture, supremely atmospheric and secure in its knowledge of place and time.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

It is a character piece, an actor’s picture, supremely atmospheric and secure in its knowledge of place and time.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Denis Villeneuve's latest film may be about aliens visiting Earth but it's the people who hold his interest.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Denis Villeneuve's latest film may be about aliens visiting Earth but it's the people who hold his interest.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Bradley Cooper as Richie gives the finest madcap performance of his career.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Bradley Cooper as Richie gives the finest madcap performance of his career.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

28 Weeks Later... makes for scorching horror. Like the original, it offers a perfect blend of well-drawn characters, political allegory, grand guignol, flesh-crawling tension and very fast-moving zombies.

~ Anton Bitel -

28 Weeks Later... makes for scorching horror. Like the original, it offers a perfect blend of well-drawn characters, political allegory, grand guignol, flesh-crawling tension and very fast-moving zombies.

~ Anton Bitel -