Ahmed doesn’t need to include war footage for us to feel its weight and understand its shadow.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The colour elements prove all the more striking when in contrast to black and white.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The beautiful cinematography, the bluesy jazz score and the gentle pace of the film are beguiling, but Masciari makes sure that we don’t lose sight of the ridiculous.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Shot over 17 years, it mingles intimate personal moments with visceral concert footage, its musical sequences knitted together with some of the best editing you’re likely to see this year.

~ Jennie Kermode -

History comes alive in the voices of those who remember it.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The choice of hand-drawn animation and its ability to demonstrate a magical realism allows the film to find the right distance from what is being depicted.

~ Richard Mowe -

Successfully finds insight and social commentary

~ Jeremy Mathews -

The pace of the action helps Handal to pack a lot in and his framing is inventive.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A Teacher is not the most finely crafted film, but it is a cri de cœur.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The filmmaker and her crew deserve a lot of credit for even managing to capture this lifestyle – not to mention following it for five years.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Breslin, as so often, is the standout.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The observational approach works against the director, slowing down proceedings and making it hard to see the wood for the trees

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Lotus may love pretty things, but he doesn’t hold back on the gore.

~ Jennie Kermode -

With so much going on the only shame is that at this length the pirouettes in various directions are so brief, giving us a taste for ideas that are begging to be dug into further.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

While the film is generally a delight, the increasingly surreal third act can be hard to track.

~ Antoni Konieczny -

A patient, affecting study of human connection in unusual circumstances

~ Antoni Konieczny -

The irreverent score, the gothic art direction, and Mario Tosi’s kaleidoscopic, slithering cinematography coalesce into something mesmeric.

~ Antoni Konieczny -

Like its subject, the film is a fusion of styles.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Fiennes is lean in look and in performance, bringing an intensity that proves compelling.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

An overflowing life is presented to us through archival interviews and film clips, and most revealingly through on-camera insights from O’Brien herself.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Fiennes is lean in look and in performance, bringing an intensity that proves compelling.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

I Am Love is social melodrama in the best traditions of Italian cinema.

~ Chris -

Anime at its very finest - lightning paced, visually stunning, feverishly creative and overrun by a logic all its own.

~ Anton Bitel -

The action is pacy but that doesn’t mean Courvoisier skims the surface.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Kleinert pushes beyond the structural stuff, creating subtle and shifting dynamics between the characters, and introducing a supernatural threat lurking in the woods.

~ Emma Slawinski -

Kleinert pushes beyond the structural stuff, creating subtle and shifting dynamics between the characters, and introducing a supernatural threat lurking in the woods.

~ Emma Slawinski -

Mime-Mime’s frustrations eventually outweigh its rewards.

~ Emma Slawinski -

Mime-Mime’s frustrations eventually outweigh its rewards.

~ Emma Slawinski -

The writers have put together a funny, frequently surreal and occasionally touching script.

~ Emma Slawinski -

The writers have put together a funny, frequently surreal and occasionally touching script.

~ Emma Slawinski -

Though stylistically it has dated somewhat, the message still resonates.

~ Emma Slawinski -

Though stylistically it has dated somewhat, the message still resonates.

~ Emma Slawinski -

The humour is the key – it’s not subtle but it’s definitely original.

~ Emma Slawinski -

The humour is the key – it’s not subtle but it’s definitely original.

~ Emma Slawinski -

Yukisada manages to meld two storylines seamlessly: one is about racial politics and another is about teenage angst and love, and the difficulty of asserting your identity, whatever your roots.

~ Emma Slawinski -

Yukisada manages to meld two storylines seamlessly: one is about racial politics and another is about teenage angst and love, and the difficulty of asserting your identity, whatever your roots.

~ Emma Slawinski -

The family are captivating subject matter, the strong personalities frequently tugging in different directions, so that the film is never short of drama.

~ Emma Slawinski -

The family are captivating subject matter, the strong personalities frequently tugging in different directions, so that the film is never short of drama.

~ Emma Slawinski -

The combination of unappealing personalities and lack of hooks to get to know the characters’ motivations better means that most of the time, watching Heart, Beating in the Dark is quite an alienating experience.

~ Emma Slawinski -

The combination of unappealing personalities and lack of hooks to get to know the characters’ motivations better means that most of the time, watching Heart, Beating in the Dark is quite an alienating experience.

~ Emma Slawinski -

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 -

The seven stories knit together well, and provide an engrossing and alternative view of a city whose image has long been absorbed into popular culture

~ Emma Slawinski -

The seven stories knit together well, and provide an engrossing and alternative view of a city whose image has long been absorbed into popular culture

~ Emma Slawinski -