Horror film of the year so far, and likely to be one of the most memorable and celebrated of the coming decade.

~ David Graham -

Horror film of the year so far, and likely to be one of the most memorable and celebrated of the coming decade.

~ David Graham -

Although this is a flawed film, it certainly isn't the disaster many had feared, and it will provide viewers with much to think about.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Although this is a flawed film, it certainly isn't the disaster many had feared, and it will provide viewers with much to think about.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Edited, directed and shot by Andy Fetscher (Bukarest Fleisch), Urban Explorer offers a cruel lesson in the ugliest aspects of Germany's recent history.

~ Anton Bitel -

Edited, directed and shot by Andy Fetscher (Bukarest Fleisch), Urban Explorer offers a cruel lesson in the ugliest aspects of Germany's recent history.

~ Anton Bitel -

In a filmic landscape littered with the lurching corpses of zombies and the emotional angst of vampires, it's refreshing to be presented with a mythology that is less familiar.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

In a filmic landscape littered with the lurching corpses of zombies and the emotional angst of vampires, it's refreshing to be presented with a mythology that is less familiar.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Won't set the box office alight but has plenty of atmosphere and imagination to commend it.

~ David Graham -

Won't set the box office alight but has plenty of atmosphere and imagination to commend it.

~ David Graham -

An unashamedly trashy treat.

~ David Graham -

An unashamedly trashy treat.

~ David Graham -

The script is knowing, loving and amusingly toys with the genre.

~ Scott Macdonald -

The script is knowing, loving and amusingly toys with the genre.

~ Scott Macdonald -

Midnight Son is atypical, funny and intriguing.

~ Owen Van Spall -

Midnight Son is atypical, funny and intriguing.

~ Owen Van Spall -

A thoroughly thrilling and unpretentious little flick that takes its genre by the scruff of the neck and drags it kicking and screaming through Scotland's menacing undergrowth.

~ David Graham -

A thoroughly thrilling and unpretentious little flick that takes its genre by the scruff of the neck and drags it kicking and screaming through Scotland's menacing undergrowth.

~ David Graham -

Kill List manages to blend its study of friendship, masculinity, violence and family with a hitman road movie wrapped inside a horror mystery. This is quite some achievement.

~ Owen Van Spall -

Kill List manages to blend its study of friendship, masculinity, violence and family with a hitman road movie wrapped inside a horror mystery. This is quite some achievement.

~ Owen Van Spall -

A lethal little stab at a well-worn template.

~ David Graham -

A lethal little stab at a well-worn template.

~ David Graham -

You can’t help thinking that West would have made a better (and perhaps more genuinely unsettling) film if he’d focused more on the inner demons of his young protagonists

~ Jeff Robson -

You can’t help thinking that West would have made a better (and perhaps more genuinely unsettling) film if he’d focused more on the inner demons of his young protagonists

~ Jeff Robson -

Jacobson is definitely a new British talent to watch.

~ Anton Bitel -

Jacobson is definitely a new British talent to watch.

~ Anton Bitel -

What's noticeable about Gillespie's version is how little really has to change to make it work.

~ Owen Van Spall -

What's noticeable about Gillespie's version is how little really has to change to make it work.

~ Owen Van Spall -

The deaths are gory and elaborate, certainly, and the effects aren’t bad, but it’s nothing new.

~ Helen Beaumont -

The deaths are gory and elaborate, certainly, and the effects aren’t bad, but it’s nothing new.

~ Helen Beaumont -

The film's biggest disappointment is that it just isn't very scary.

~ David Graham -

The film's biggest disappointment is that it just isn't very scary.

~ David Graham -

Despite appealing leads and the subtle creepiness of the escalating phone-calls, director Matthew Parkhill can't make the pieces fit, leaving the audience hanging in frustration rather than in suspense.

~ David Graham -

Despite appealing leads and the subtle creepiness of the escalating phone-calls, director Matthew Parkhill can't make the pieces fit, leaving the audience hanging in frustration rather than in suspense.

~ David Graham -

What it lacks in structural coherence, Atrocious makes up for in atmosphere.

~ Jennie Kermode -

What it lacks in structural coherence, Atrocious makes up for in atmosphere.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Establishing shots of boats and docks and archive footage are not only more genuine than the film's version of events but more convincing.

~ Andrew Robertson -

A wild story delivered with verve and a suitable degree of irreverence.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Ott’s interest is not in creating an accurate depiction of exactly what happened in the run-up to the Oklahoma City bombing, but rather in exploring the thought processes behind it.

~ Jennie Kermode -

I laughed, and was not alone in doing so, out loud, and repeatedly.

~ Andrew Robertson -

In this tangled tapestry, Russell has captured the soul of a nation.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It feels as if a collection of fantasy and dystopian science fiction archetypes have been poured into a blender and swirled around to produce the script and visuals.

~ Jennie Kermode -

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 -

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

~ Jennie Kermode -

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 -

Carreira shows how quiet desperation can be eroding

~ Amber Wilkinson -

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

~ Marko Stojiljkovic -

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

~ Jennie Kermode -

Bonhoeffer struggles with his faith, but less in the manner of a great thinker and more in that of someone who writes quotes for inspirational posters.

~ Jennie Kermode -

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 -