The tension is built upon a looping repetition, from the graceful repeated camera moves from Masud Amini Tirani and Bahrami's plotting to Foad Gharemani’s baleful score.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The tension is built upon a looping repetition, from the graceful repeated camera moves from Masud Amini Tirani and Bahrami's plotting to Foad Gharemani’s baleful score.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

An assured debut feature.

~ Richard Mellor -

An assured debut feature.

~ Richard Mellor -

This is a complex film which aims not to show how abhorrent reactionary politics is, but how seductive it may sound to a community tearing itself apart from within.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The characters have no backbone, the story little credibility or substance.

~ Monica Wolfe Murray -

Although 12 Angry Men is the more detailed work, a similar sort of group dynamic plays out here.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Although 12 Angry Men is the more detailed work, a similar sort of group dynamic plays out here.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A strong debut from such a young creative talent, the film skips with ease between the lyrical and the mundane.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A strong debut from such a young creative talent, the film skips with ease between the lyrical and the mundane.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A frequently impressive but occasionally problematic experience.

~ David Graham -

A frequently impressive but occasionally problematic experience.

~ David Graham -

Animation is basic and unoriginal, although the colouring is good.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Animation is basic and unoriginal, although the colouring is good.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The product of around four years’ filming, Town Of Runners is impressive on several levels.

~ Emma Slawinski -

The product of around four years’ filming, Town Of Runners is impressive on several levels.

~ Emma Slawinski -

Everything the British Empire once stood for is here - grit, courage, fair play, indomitability, initiative and lips that stay stiff without artificial aids.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Everything the British Empire once stood for is here - grit, courage, fair play, indomitability, initiative and lips that stay stiff without artificial aids.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Between its central mystery and its assault on the senses, Town In A Lake is a film that sets out to consume the viewer.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Between its central mystery and its assault on the senses, Town In A Lake is a film that sets out to consume the viewer.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A Town Called Panic is a truly postmodern concoction, where, along with the village's properties, narrative norms are deconstructed brick by brick, as free associations and visual gags come thick and fast, offering a surreal jaunt through toy town.

~ Anton Bitel -

A Town Called Panic is a truly postmodern concoction, where, along with the village's properties, narrative norms are deconstructed brick by brick, as free associations and visual gags come thick and fast, offering a surreal jaunt through toy town.

~ Anton Bitel -

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 -

Exhilarating,

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Meadows' film oozes quality. The scripting feels natural and, thanks to long takes, Meadows is able to get the best performances from his young leads.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Meadows' film oozes quality. The scripting feels natural and, thanks to long takes, Meadows is able to get the best performances from his young leads.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Layer in the realisation that what you are seeing actually happened and the result takes you beyond disturbing into that place where your skin starts to creep and your brain crawls into the foetal position.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Layer in the realisation that what you are seeing actually happened and the result takes you beyond disturbing into that place where your skin starts to creep and your brain crawls into the foetal position.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Made with plenty of upbeat vigour, the end result is a primer history lesson for newcomers to Sierra Leone that also touches on the cultural tensions that can develop even between those pulling in the same direction.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Made with plenty of upbeat vigour, the end result is a primer history lesson for newcomers to Sierra Leone that also touches on the cultural tensions that can develop even between those pulling in the same direction.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Every shot has been carefully constructed and every nuance captured with the lightest touch.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

This documentary is an unsentimental portrayal of a time experienced and cherished by a community at odds with a senseless vision of the world.

~ David Stanners -

This documentary is an unsentimental portrayal of a time experienced and cherished by a community at odds with a senseless vision of the world.

~ David Stanners -

David Hylan and Raydra Hall's gently paced documentary is very much a small town story, part local history lesson, part memorial to those who didn't make it.

~ Jennie Kermode -

David Hylan and Raydra Hall's gently paced documentary is very much a small town story, part local history lesson, part memorial to those who didn't make it.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The landscape within which all this takes place is spectacular: a richly imagined, fully fledged fantasy world.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The landscape within which all this takes place is spectacular: a richly imagined, fully fledged fantasy world.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Every once in a while young fiction remains true to itself

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Every once in a while young fiction remains true to itself

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The sight gags are myopic, the running gags lame.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The sight gags are myopic, the running gags lame.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Jobson uses the inherent thrill of the hunt to pursue his concerns about the vast gulf between the haves and the have-nots, and the arrogant disconnect of those who view life as mere data on a screen.

~ Anton Bitel -

Jobson uses the inherent thrill of the hunt to pursue his concerns about the vast gulf between the haves and the have-nots, and the arrogant disconnect of those who view life as mere data on a screen.

~ Anton Bitel -

It is not only a town that has become a museum, but also a town that learns how to rebuild itself by using crisis conditions to its advantage.

~ Mateusz Tarwacki -

It is not only a town that has become a museum, but also a town that learns how to rebuild itself by using crisis conditions to its advantage.

~ Mateusz Tarwacki -

The narrative pushes along at a reasonable pace... but only really picks up when the boys start becoming famous, which makes and breaks their future careers.

~ David Stanners -

The narrative pushes along at a reasonable pace... but only really picks up when the boys start becoming famous, which makes and breaks their future careers.

~ David Stanners -

How much it appeals to you will depend on how you relate to its lead characters - but despite its focus on their ethnicity, there may be bigger cultural barriers for many viewers to get past.

~ Jennie Kermode -

How much it appeals to you will depend on how you relate to its lead characters - but despite its focus on their ethnicity, there may be bigger cultural barriers for many viewers to get past.

~ Jennie Kermode -

As propaganda for girl power, it weakens its impact by being twice as aggressive as the boys.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

As propaganda for girl power, it weakens its impact by being twice as aggressive as the boys.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

A fine start to Ricky Gervais’ silver screen career.

~ Stephen Carty -

A fine start to Ricky Gervais’ silver screen career.

~ Stephen Carty -

The bleak chill of the Quebecois winter seeps into the very bones of Denis Côté's latest film, giving a sense of aching longing to the action.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The bleak chill of the Quebecois winter seeps into the very bones of Denis Côté's latest film, giving a sense of aching longing to the action.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A love letter to the resilience of the bereaved.

~ Darren Amner -

A love letter to the resilience of the bereaved.

~ Darren Amner -

An exhilarating insight into a moment in Californian history when some underprivileged kids broke the rules and did things on skateboards that had never been seen before.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

An exhilarating insight into a moment in Californian history when some underprivileged kids broke the rules and did things on skateboards that had never been seen before.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Bueno supports the interviews with clips from the film and behind-the-scenes archive footage chosen not just for colour but to let us see what is under discussion at every stage.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Bueno supports the interviews with clips from the film and behind-the-scenes archive footage chosen not just for colour but to let us see what is under discussion at every stage.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A dense and dark storyline that is compelling in and of itself, rather than simply ladelling on lots of game-changing twists.

~ Stephen Carty -

A dense and dark storyline that is compelling in and of itself, rather than simply ladelling on lots of game-changing twists.

~ Stephen Carty -

By and large this is a warm, engaging and at times genuinely tense film with some interesting things to say about Spain’s burgeoning gay scene and its matriarchal society.

~ Jeff Robson -

By and large this is a warm, engaging and at times genuinely tense film with some interesting things to say about Spain’s burgeoning gay scene and its matriarchal society.

~ Jeff Robson -