This portrait of loss and fractured memory achieves an aching beauty that is without precedent in the director's previous work.

~ Anton Bitel -

This portrait of loss and fractured memory achieves an aching beauty that is without precedent in the director's previous work.

~ Anton Bitel -

It looks as if Scorsese is battling his own demons, oblivious of the pain he inflicts upon an unsuspecting audience

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

It looks as if Scorsese is battling his own demons, oblivious of the pain he inflicts upon an unsuspecting audience

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

What could have been turned into a gritty, gloomy film with a penchant for gore, instead retains the lighthearted feel of the manga.

~ Luke Shaw -

What could have been turned into a gritty, gloomy film with a penchant for gore, instead retains the lighthearted feel of the manga.

~ Luke Shaw -

Mongol charges onto the screen from the beautifully desolate steppes, leaving clouds of dust, severed limbs and burning yurts in its wake. This is a classic epic.

~ George Williamson -

Mongol charges onto the screen from the beautifully desolate steppes, leaving clouds of dust, severed limbs and burning yurts in its wake. This is a classic epic.

~ George Williamson -

It’s aided by Ryuichi Sakamoto’s highly evocative score, which locates it in time and space as well as providing a dramatic undercurrent to the action.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It’s aided by Ryuichi Sakamoto’s highly evocative score, which locates it in time and space as well as providing a dramatic undercurrent to the action.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Generally, this film engages more intellectually with emotion than Kore-eda's later more heartfelt work.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Generally, this film engages more intellectually with emotion than Kore-eda's later more heartfelt work.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The film does an impressive job of bringing us close to its young female protagonists, and never more so than when showing us their appreciation of the absurd.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The film does an impressive job of bringing us close to its young female protagonists, and never more so than when showing us their appreciation of the absurd.

~ Jennie Kermode -

There's a wonderful flexibility to Fukatsu's performance as a woman who bears endless slights as she struggles to retain her decorum.

~ Jennie Kermode -

There's a wonderful flexibility to Fukatsu's performance as a woman who bears endless slights as she struggles to retain her decorum.

~ Jennie Kermode -

On paper, Invisible Waves may sound like just another Asian action policier or revenge thriller, but in reality it is altogether more abstract and elusive than that.

~ Anton Bitel -

On paper, Invisible Waves may sound like just another Asian action policier or revenge thriller, but in reality it is altogether more abstract and elusive than that.

~ Anton Bitel -

A film of considerable depth, intelligence and accomplishment.

~ Keith Hennessey Brown -

A film of considerable depth, intelligence and accomplishment.

~ Keith Hennessey Brown -

A beautifully crafted film.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A beautifully crafted film.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Neither scandalous, nor inspiring.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Neither scandalous, nor inspiring.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

No less enigmatic, broad-reaching and majestically paced than a jellyfish.

~ Anton Bitel -

No less enigmatic, broad-reaching and majestically paced than a jellyfish.

~ Anton Bitel -

If you’re looking for explosive, mind-boggling special-effects driven set-pieces coupled with broodingly patriotic one-liners from Neeson et al, you won’t be disappointed.

~ Merlin Harries -

If you’re looking for explosive, mind-boggling special-effects driven set-pieces coupled with broodingly patriotic one-liners from Neeson et al, you won’t be disappointed.

~ Merlin Harries -

The plot is layered in fantasy and fiction and yet retains a powerful idealism

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The plot is layered in fantasy and fiction and yet retains a powerful idealism

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -