Spectres Are Haunting Europe plunges us into the thick of the action and leaves us to try and make sense of it for ourselves - just as the migrants have to.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Spectres Are Haunting Europe plunges us into the thick of the action and leaves us to try and make sense of it for ourselves - just as the migrants have to.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Most effective is the film's playing with the concept of character motivation, highlighting the studied intellectual complexity prevalent in theatrical fiction in contrast to the often crude driving forces present in reality.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Most effective is the film's playing with the concept of character motivation, highlighting the studied intellectual complexity prevalent in theatrical fiction in contrast to the often crude driving forces present in reality.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It seems some alloy of leaden and brazen.

~ Andrew Robertson -

It seems some alloy of leaden and brazen.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Remakes don't have to be ten times the size. They usually are. And ten times worse.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Remakes don't have to be ten times the size. They usually are. And ten times worse.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Elevated by sharp direction from Peter Cornwell in his feature debut.

~ Martin Gray -

Elevated by sharp direction from Peter Cornwell in his feature debut.

~ Martin Gray -

Whatever one's take on the story, there's no disputing that the series has a terrific cast.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Whatever one's take on the story, there's no disputing that the series has a terrific cast.

~ Jennie Kermode -

So flagrantly derivative are its set-pieces that it is a struggle to find anything original in the film at all.

~ Anton Bitel -

So flagrantly derivative are its set-pieces that it is a struggle to find anything original in the film at all.

~ Anton Bitel -