This is far from vintage Allen, yet it's still a cut above most similar dramatic work.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This is far from vintage Allen, yet it's still a cut above most similar dramatic work.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This is Woody Allen territory, except not as funny

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

This is Woody Allen territory, except not as funny

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

A thoughtful but dreary examination of narcissism, disconnection and emotional dishonesty.

~ The Exile -

A thoughtful but dreary examination of narcissism, disconnection and emotional dishonesty.

~ The Exile -

This all-singing, all-dancing, big gun blazing, kangaroo-fucking anarchist had a style that was all her own.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This all-singing, all-dancing, big gun blazing, kangaroo-fucking anarchist had a style that was all her own.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Bill Murray is acceptably crusty, but hardly huggable

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Bill Murray is acceptably crusty, but hardly huggable

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Not so much a thriller, with an unexpected twist, as a schizophrenic character study, a portrait of the artist as a disturbed young man, still exercising his creative imagination to the very end.

~ Anton Bitel -

Not so much a thriller, with an unexpected twist, as a schizophrenic character study, a portrait of the artist as a disturbed young man, still exercising his creative imagination to the very end.

~ Anton Bitel -

It's hard to imagine that this was the best version that could be salvaged from the editing room.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It's hard to imagine that this was the best version that could be salvaged from the editing room.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The twists and turns of this narrative fail to ring true with too many implausibilities in the plotting to give any credibility.

~ Richard Mowe -

The twists and turns of this narrative fail to ring true with too many implausibilities in the plotting to give any credibility.

~ Richard Mowe -

The more you know, the less you fear.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The performances by Naomi Watts and Martin Henderson are intense and charming.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The performances by Naomi Watts and Martin Henderson are intense and charming.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Visually and emotionally restrained, the Painted Veil shines with intellectual integrity.

~ Chris -

Visually and emotionally restrained, the Painted Veil shines with intellectual integrity.

~ Chris -

Drab and strangely unfocused.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Drab and strangely unfocused.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Lynch creates unease with every camera angle and glitch in the storyline.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Lynch creates unease with every camera angle and glitch in the storyline.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Bening’s performance is a triumph over leaden writing.

~ Sophie Monks Kaufman -

Bening’s performance is a triumph over leaden writing.

~ Sophie Monks Kaufman -

There's a rare intelligence to this film, which explores issues around race, wealth, class, gender and what it means to be a real American in a nuanced, multifaceted way.

~ Jennie Kermode -

There's a rare intelligence to this film, which explores issues around race, wealth, class, gender and what it means to be a real American in a nuanced, multifaceted way.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Otto's sensitively structured portrait of an engaging Peter Pan draws us irresistibly into his world.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Otto's sensitively structured portrait of an engaging Peter Pan draws us irresistibly into his world.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Big is back.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Big is back.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Though he gets relatively little screentime, the underrated Hammer delivers a nuanced performance that forms the film's emotional core.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Though he gets relatively little screentime, the underrated Hammer delivers a nuanced performance that forms the film's emotional core.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This is as inventive and left field as Being John Malkovich, but with broader smiles and bigger issues.

~ Paul Griffiths -

This is as inventive and left field as Being John Malkovich, but with broader smiles and bigger issues.

~ Paul Griffiths -

Director Juan Antonio Bayona spins the focus in on a single family caught up in the disaster, personalising the horror and bringing it home in unashamedly melodramatic fashion on its very own tidal wave of emotion.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Director Juan Antonio Bayona spins the focus in on a single family caught up in the disaster, personalising the horror and bringing it home in unashamedly melodramatic fashion on its very own tidal wave of emotion.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A timely and well-executed thriller

~ Adam Micklethwaite -

A timely and well-executed thriller

~ Adam Micklethwaite -

Imagery and sound are so closely wedded throughout that at times it seems meaningless to distinguish between the two.

~ Max Crawford -

Imagery and sound are so closely wedded throughout that at times it seems meaningless to distinguish between the two.

~ Max Crawford -

Marshall Herskovitz, who made Legends Of The Fall into a remedy for insomnia, directs from the sitting position.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Marshall Herskovitz, who made Legends Of The Fall into a remedy for insomnia, directs from the sitting position.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

What makes this better than a smack in the face with a wet cliche is Woody Harrelson's performance

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

What makes this better than a smack in the face with a wet cliche is Woody Harrelson's performance

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Haneke once again delivers intellectual, challenging and bravura filmmaking.

~ Paul Griffiths -

Haneke once again delivers intellectual, challenging and bravura filmmaking.

~ Paul Griffiths -

A very New York film.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

A very New York film.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The problem is that the new Emmanuelle is as completely unsexy, cold and sterile as the environment the titular protagonist inhabits.

~ Marko Stojiljkovic -

The problem is that the new Emmanuelle is as completely unsexy, cold and sterile as the environment the titular protagonist inhabits.

~ Marko Stojiljkovic -

With its underworld themes and ambiguous protagonist, Eastern Promises plays like a companion to A History of Violence.

~ The Exile -

With its underworld themes and ambiguous protagonist, Eastern Promises plays like a companion to A History of Violence.

~ The Exile -

The film has been unfairly treated, just like the lady herself. Neither deserve it.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The film has been unfairly treated, just like the lady herself. Neither deserve it.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Gyllenhaal puts in such a brilliant performance that it’s hard not to get swept away.

~ Luke Shaw -

Gyllenhaal puts in such a brilliant performance that it’s hard not to get swept away.

~ Luke Shaw -

Everything about the film is ill-judged, miscast and intellectually anorexic.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Everything about the film is ill-judged, miscast and intellectually anorexic.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

As an original idea from left field it lacks the courage of its convictions

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

As an original idea from left field it lacks the courage of its convictions

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

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 -

Being a loser is like dying by degrees. Mueller, with co-writer Kevin Kennedy, reflects this most accurately and Penn's performance runs contrary to anything he has done before.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Being a loser is like dying by degrees. Mueller, with co-writer Kevin Kennedy, reflects this most accurately and Penn's performance runs contrary to anything he has done before.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The situation is played with an off-hand glibness that barely leaves a lipstick mark on the surface of what the quartet are doing.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The situation is played with an off-hand glibness that barely leaves a lipstick mark on the surface of what the quartet are doing.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

An equal, not a sequel from one of cinema's brightest hopes.

~ Keith Hennessey Brown -

An equal, not a sequel from one of cinema's brightest hopes.

~ Keith Hennessey Brown -