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 -

The anxious impact of the airport is also brought home to us by the crowded nature of the animation, its expressionist rendering emphasising the strangeness of this environment.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

For better or worse, Antonioni’s got his master stylist hat on here, even if it sometimes obscures his vision.

~ Antoni Konieczny -

Feels like a bite-sized companion piece to The Invasion

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Pure joy from start to finish.

~ Anton Bitel -

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

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Coogan is well cast in this tricky role, moving easily from humour to heartbreak..

~ Jennie Kermode -

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 -

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 -

In scenes filled with wit and intelligence, Langella and Ambrose perform an exquisite dance of power.

~ The Exile -

In scenes filled with wit and intelligence, Langella and Ambrose perform an exquisite dance of power.

~ The Exile -

Both gripping morality tale and satisfying thriller.

~ The Exile -

Both gripping morality tale and satisfying thriller.

~ The Exile -

A fertility flick for women whose feet and minds seldom leave the stirrups.

~ The Exile -

A fertility flick for women whose feet and minds seldom leave the stirrups.

~ The Exile -

Like a succubus, Burstein simply attaches herself to the teens’ volatile emotions; it never seems to occur to her to pull back and examine a larger, more nuanced canvas.

~ The Exile -

Like a succubus, Burstein simply attaches herself to the teens’ volatile emotions; it never seems to occur to her to pull back and examine a larger, more nuanced canvas.

~ The Exile -

Mainstream audiences may hate and critics may debate, but Synecdoche is a work of unmitigated, undisciplined genius.

~ The Exile -

Mainstream audiences may hate and critics may debate, but Synecdoche is a work of unmitigated, undisciplined genius.

~ The Exile -

Poignant, pensive and surprisingly poetic, Let the Right One In unspools with subtle psychological complexity.

~ The Exile -

Poignant, pensive and surprisingly poetic, Let the Right One In unspools with subtle psychological complexity.

~ The Exile -

The best scenes in JCVD have a loose playfulness that redeems the angst.

~ The Exile -

The best scenes in JCVD have a loose playfulness that redeems the angst.

~ The Exile -

Brilliantly original.

~ The Exile -

Brilliantly original.

~ The Exile -

While Adams and Blunt scrabble for subtext and a depth that simply isn’t there, the movie congeals around them.

~ The Exile -

While Adams and Blunt scrabble for subtext and a depth that simply isn’t there, the movie congeals around them.

~ The Exile -

The subject is much too large and diverse to cram into 94 minutes, but Kenner spends his time wisely, ramming home bullet points with irrefutable evidence and impressive research.

~ The Exile -

The subject is much too large and diverse to cram into 94 minutes, but Kenner spends his time wisely, ramming home bullet points with irrefutable evidence and impressive research.

~ The Exile -