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 -

The animation is well textured and the story’s pace satisfyingly builds up to the ghoulish pay off.

~ Paul Griffiths -

The animation is well textured and the story’s pace satisfyingly builds up to the ghoulish pay off.

~ Paul Griffiths -

Fawns completes the troika with a ringing emotional pop.

~ Paul Griffiths -

Fawns completes the troika with a ringing emotional pop.

~ Paul Griffiths -

Poetry is by turns a serene and haunting piece.

~ Paul Griffiths -

Poetry is by turns a serene and haunting piece.

~ Paul Griffiths -

After the hard to swallow entrée and adagio, these variations do lead us to a satisfying coda.

~ Paul Griffiths -

After the hard to swallow entrée and adagio, these variations do lead us to a satisfying coda.

~ Paul Griffiths -

The moments of satisfying personal drama and suspense are built slowly rather than thumped out with high intensity.

~ Paul Griffiths -

The moments of satisfying personal drama and suspense are built slowly rather than thumped out with high intensity.

~ Paul Griffiths -

The requisite staples are undead and present and while tasty chutzpah abounds, ultimately the film doesn’t deliver a totally satisfying meal.

~ Paul Griffiths -

The requisite staples are undead and present and while tasty chutzpah abounds, ultimately the film doesn’t deliver a totally satisfying meal.

~ Paul Griffiths -

City Slacker plays its set up for breezy rom-com laughs against the backdrop of a carnivorous corporate banking culture.

~ Paul Griffiths -

City Slacker plays its set up for breezy rom-com laughs against the backdrop of a carnivorous corporate banking culture.

~ Paul Griffiths -

It is left for the viewer to decide, although by giving his documentary such a cabalistic title, it is clear where Carman stands.

~ Paul Griffiths -

It is left for the viewer to decide, although by giving his documentary such a cabalistic title, it is clear where Carman stands.

~ Paul Griffiths -

Tetsuhiko Nono’s remarkable Japanese indie debut signals him as a cine-literate writer and director of verve, invention and visual panache.

~ Paul Griffiths -

Tetsuhiko Nono’s remarkable Japanese indie debut signals him as a cine-literate writer and director of verve, invention and visual panache.

~ Paul Griffiths -

There is hardly a true note struck and since we are given no reason to like, let alone care for them, there is simply no tension surrounding their imperiled survival.

~ Paul Griffiths -

There is hardly a true note struck and since we are given no reason to like, let alone care for them, there is simply no tension surrounding their imperiled survival.

~ Paul Griffiths -