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 -

A full picture of the nuts and bolts of people smuggling.

~ Scott Macdonald -

A full picture of the nuts and bolts of people smuggling.

~ Scott Macdonald -

For all its visual skill and mostly good performances, this is a tiresome, dull film.

~ Scott Macdonald -

For all its visual skill and mostly good performances, this is a tiresome, dull film.

~ Scott Macdonald -

The medium is a time capsule, a documented moment, perpetually frozen in time.

~ Scott Macdonald -

The medium is a time capsule, a documented moment, perpetually frozen in time.

~ Scott Macdonald -

A fascinating meta-textual picture.

~ Scott Macdonald -

A fascinating meta-textual picture.

~ Scott Macdonald -

Director Jonathan Gurfinkel's film rides a deeply uncomfortable societal line between misogynistic conservatism and liberation through feminism.

~ Scott Macdonald -

Director Jonathan Gurfinkel's film rides a deeply uncomfortable societal line between misogynistic conservatism and liberation through feminism.

~ Scott Macdonald -

The film takes great joy in two old men poring over family connections and the past.

~ Scott Macdonald -

The film takes great joy in two old men poring over family connections and the past.

~ Scott Macdonald -

The documentary-style diary is interspersed with striking single shots of nature.

~ Scott Macdonald -

The documentary-style diary is interspersed with striking single shots of nature.

~ Scott Macdonald -

It's a film that's full of visual life, amid the arid, hard surroundings.

~ Scott Macdonald -

It's a film that's full of visual life, amid the arid, hard surroundings.

~ Scott Macdonald -

Mostly, Of Snails And Men is a light, entertaining comedy.

~ Scott Macdonald -

Mostly, Of Snails And Men is a light, entertaining comedy.

~ Scott Macdonald -

This is complete hand-waving trash - he's an ignorant, privileged cocky arsehole and good things happen to him. Pass the sick bucket.

~ Scott Macdonald -

This is complete hand-waving trash - he's an ignorant, privileged cocky arsehole and good things happen to him. Pass the sick bucket.

~ Scott Macdonald -