Manages to squeeze solid performances from actors and to infuse the run of the mill story with some dense and tense atmosphere set against the backdrop of the overall slickness of Frank Griebe’s cinematography

~ Marko Stojiljkovic -

If the humour works for you at all, you’ll find it a hoot.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Director Siobhan McCarthy is adept at using the long-established visual language of the high school movie both to entertain and to show us the world from a perspective that’s relatively new to cinema.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Clown in A Cornfield has a lot of heart, and not just of the bloody variety.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Bong loses the thread in numerous half-baked sub-plots whose inflation takes its toll on the bloated runtime.

~ Marko Stojiljkovic -

Every frame feels like the product of conscious decision-making, with nothing merely carrying us from one point to another.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Hallow Road is an Irish co-production, and it shows both in theme and in quality.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It’s refreshing to encounter a multiverse film that doesn’t mess about.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A surprisingly droll deconstruction of crime reconstruction.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The circumstances of women are central to the film.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Kurosawa's masterful synthesis doesn't stop with the script. He weaves a late Edo period samurai film, in its painstaking historic detail, into modernity.

~ Donald Munro -

The film is at its most effective when we feel the urgency of their boredom – the athletic one pacing in circles like a trapped animal – juxtaposed with the languid charm of their environment.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It doesn’t quite hit the mark, but that’s not to say that it isn’t a pleasant way to while away an hour and a half.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The difference here from more familiar selections allows us to appreciate different qualities in the art.

~ Jennie Kermode -

In what is probably Côté's most straightforwardly observational film to date, the fictions come baked in.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

While Verseau talks about how crucial the surgery was to her mental health, the complexity of the emotions experienced afterwards is also made clear.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The delight of the drama stems from the well crafted characters, while its heft hinges on toxicity that may not be immediately obvious.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The script is lean, the sword edges keen and the characters mean.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

An extraordinarily thorough film.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It’s the acting that carries it, and naturally Farahani, one of the finest talents of her generation, does not disappoint.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The delight of the drama stems from the well crafted characters, while its heft hinges on toxicity that may not be immediately obvious.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Every frame feels like the product of conscious decision-making, with nothing merely carrying us from one point to another.

~ Jennie Kermode -

An extraordinarily thorough film.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Writer/director Sandhya Suri - who has a documentary background - is keen to show that everyone plays their part in the prejudices and corruption of the legal system.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Ashcroft’s interpretation steers the story away from simple tragedy as we see Mortensen making gains as well as losses.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Comic invention rides shotgun on a screenplay that runs wild.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Cat’s viewpoint predominates, and Zilbalodis has an acute understanding of how the world looks from its point of view, of what catches its attention and how its body follows instinctively.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The difference here from more familiar selections allows us to appreciate different qualities in the art.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Lin and Sun studiously maintain the enigma around Shuo so that we are left guessing as to whether he’s just a disadvantaged teen trying to make his way in the world or a cuckoo in the nest.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A sophisticated palate will discern any number of flavours running through Black Bag, but these are glosses on a traditional recipe.

~ Andrew Robertson -

It doesn’t quite hit the mark, but that’s not to say that it isn’t a pleasant way to while away an hour and a half.

~ Jennie Kermode -

As a consciously durational work, Wang’s epic poses a suitably gruelling challenge to viewers.

~ Michael Pattison -

As a consciously durational work, Wang’s epic poses a suitably gruelling challenge to viewers.

~ Michael Pattison -

Tthere are about six or seven fascinating shorts competing for attention here, and Burch and Sekula’s respective backgrounds pull the film one way and then the other, never quite settling into a structurally or aesthetically consistent framework.

~ Michael Pattison -

Tthere are about six or seven fascinating shorts competing for attention here, and Burch and Sekula’s respective backgrounds pull the film one way and then the other, never quite settling into a structurally or aesthetically consistent framework.

~ Michael Pattison -

The underlying implication here is that organised crime is a social phenomenon: a form of systematic opportunism, it flourishes under certain historical and political conditions.

~ Michael Pattison -

The underlying implication here is that organised crime is a social phenomenon: a form of systematic opportunism, it flourishes under certain historical and political conditions.

~ Michael Pattison -

Perkin documents with delicacy and humour Rabha and others’ legal fights.

~ Michael Pattison -

Perkin documents with delicacy and humour Rabha and others’ legal fights.

~ Michael Pattison -

Rather than matching his subjects’ plight with a routinely rugged aesthetic, Drexel demonstrates both appreciable tact and a keen eye for the unexpectedly beautiful.

~ Michael Pattison -

Rather than matching his subjects’ plight with a routinely rugged aesthetic, Drexel demonstrates both appreciable tact and a keen eye for the unexpectedly beautiful.

~ Michael Pattison -

Jargil’s film is a clear account of two adults learning to confront their own guilt.

~ Michael Pattison -

Jargil’s film is a clear account of two adults learning to confront their own guilt.

~ Michael Pattison -

The broader perspective demonstrates the moral and legal disadvantage at which the volunteers are fundamentally placed.

~ Michael Pattison -

The broader perspective demonstrates the moral and legal disadvantage at which the volunteers are fundamentally placed.

~ Michael Pattison -

Working closely with his selected cast, André has allowed these youngsters to express their current fears and anxieties in a distinctive and personalised way.

~ Michael Pattison -

Working closely with his selected cast, André has allowed these youngsters to express their current fears and anxieties in a distinctive and personalised way.

~ Michael Pattison -

A clear and succinct overview of the case at hand.

~ Michael Pattison -

A clear and succinct overview of the case at hand.

~ Michael Pattison -

What makes this film so enjoyable is the chemistry that holds its ensemble together.

~ Michael Pattison -

What makes this film so enjoyable is the chemistry that holds its ensemble together.

~ Michael Pattison -