Here, the old Chilean songs fulfill their original purpose, as storytelling elements, but now they bear the weight of a new history.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Here, the old Chilean songs fulfill their original purpose, as storytelling elements, but now they bear the weight of a new history.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Powerful mise-en-scene and static camera shots emphasise this bleak, uncaring environment.

~ Chris -

Powerful mise-en-scene and static camera shots emphasise this bleak, uncaring environment.

~ Chris -

Sympathies increasingly lie with the women.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Sympathies increasingly lie with the women.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

the action, though well acted and offering a snapshot of rural Russia in the Fifties, offers little in the way of innovation or even a gripping story.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

the action, though well acted and offering a snapshot of rural Russia in the Fifties, offers little in the way of innovation or even a gripping story.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Parmar’s film scores with its central partnership, glowing like a strand of saffron at the heart of the mix.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Parmar’s film scores with its central partnership, glowing like a strand of saffron at the heart of the mix.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

It is when Neither Heaven Nor Earth ventures into the unexplainable that it brings us closest to the concrete battlefield.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

It is when Neither Heaven Nor Earth ventures into the unexplainable that it brings us closest to the concrete battlefield.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

All this culminates, as it rightly should, in the series' most spectacular set piece battle.

~ Jennie Kermode -

All this culminates, as it rightly should, in the series' most spectacular set piece battle.

~ Jennie Kermode -

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 -

The battle for Jerusalem is full of jaw-dropping, breathless action.

~ Symon Parsons -

The battle for Jerusalem is full of jaw-dropping, breathless action.

~ Symon Parsons -

A love story that, despite my sincerest cynicism, allowed me to invest for the slender 90-minute runtime.

~ Scott Macdonald -

A love story that, despite my sincerest cynicism, allowed me to invest for the slender 90-minute runtime.

~ Scott Macdonald -

It’s cobbled together so haphazardly that one finds oneself wanting to hand out a badge for effort, because it’s not easy to make a feature film from nothing, yet whilst the team behind it ought to feel proud of themselves, it’s not very watchable.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It’s cobbled together so haphazardly that one finds oneself wanting to hand out a badge for effort, because it’s not easy to make a feature film from nothing, yet whilst the team behind it ought to feel proud of themselves, it’s not very watchable.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A powerful and emotive meditation on the skill and art involved in skating.

~ James Gracey -

A powerful and emotive meditation on the skill and art involved in skating.

~ James Gracey -

Tykwer has turned it into a romance, with an ending that should be dropped down a very deep hole.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Tykwer has turned it into a romance, with an ending that should be dropped down a very deep hole.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Many of the shots - a cuckoo clock here, a portrait on the wall there - play out almost as still lifes of a life.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Many of the shots - a cuckoo clock here, a portrait on the wall there - play out almost as still lifes of a life.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

An intriguing ‘what if’ that only comes unstuck at the end, as the movie doesn’t know how to resolve itself after a kinetic climax.

~ James Benefield -

An intriguing ‘what if’ that only comes unstuck at the end, as the movie doesn’t know how to resolve itself after a kinetic climax.

~ James Benefield -

Moore's performance is heart-stoppingly wonderful.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Moore's performance is heart-stoppingly wonderful.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

There's an odd dynamic to this animation in that the visually stunning imagery seems to have come from an entirely more rich imagination than the rather perfunctory and, at times, borderline annoying storytelling which accompanies it.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

There's an odd dynamic to this animation in that the visually stunning imagery seems to have come from an entirely more rich imagination than the rather perfunctory and, at times, borderline annoying storytelling which accompanies it.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Akin’s screenplay is intricate and original, and his story is ultimately an affirmation of the strength of personal bonds over the political.

~ Val Kermode -

Akin’s screenplay is intricate and original, and his story is ultimately an affirmation of the strength of personal bonds over the political.

~ Val Kermode -

It's nice to meet at bunch of heroes who are (at first) motivated simply by a desire to do better than living off instant noodles.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It's nice to meet at bunch of heroes who are (at first) motivated simply by a desire to do better than living off instant noodles.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Najjar has essentially crafted two films here, both of which carry plenty of interest but they are locked in an unhappy marriage which means neither can realise their full potential.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Najjar has essentially crafted two films here, both of which carry plenty of interest but they are locked in an unhappy marriage which means neither can realise their full potential.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A paean to the American dream of self-determination that many Americans have never learnt how to aspire to.

~ Chris -

A paean to the American dream of self-determination that many Americans have never learnt how to aspire to.

~ Chris -

A film unlike anything else you’ll see this year.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A film unlike anything else you’ll see this year.

~ Jennie Kermode -

An elegant, inspiring piece of silent cinema, which is strongly recommended for any hopeless romantics out there.

~ Adam Micklethwaite -

An elegant, inspiring piece of silent cinema, which is strongly recommended for any hopeless romantics out there.

~ Adam Micklethwaite -