This is England is, quite simply, the best British film for years. If you're underage, sneak into this film.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This is England is, quite simply, the best British film for years. If you're underage, sneak into this film.

~ Jennie Kermode -

True North is an unremittingly grim and claustrophobic portrayal of life in desperate circumstances, but it's engagingly told, threaded through with humour, and it makes for compulsive viewing.

~ Jennie Kermode -

True North is an unremittingly grim and claustrophobic portrayal of life in desperate circumstances, but it's engagingly told, threaded through with humour, and it makes for compulsive viewing.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It is the political overtones that make the movie stand out and also invite forgiveness for the appreciably low budget.

~ Chris -

It is the political overtones that make the movie stand out and also invite forgiveness for the appreciably low budget.

~ Chris -

This is a crisp and well made thriller. It confidently moves the story with its universal themes of secrecy and the abuse of power to France, and grips all the way through.

~ Andrew Robertson -

This is a crisp and well made thriller. It confidently moves the story with its universal themes of secrecy and the abuse of power to France, and grips all the way through.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Enjoyable, and well assembled, but the distance in language and setting work against it.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Enjoyable, and well assembled, but the distance in language and setting work against it.

~ Andrew Robertson -

The film is a template for disaster movies and strangers-trapped-in-a-train scenarios.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The film is a template for disaster movies and strangers-trapped-in-a-train scenarios.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

A vital part of your film education.

~ Keith Hennessey Brown -

A vital part of your film education.

~ Keith Hennessey Brown -

The ladle of light-hearted farce is never far enough from the plot.

~ Scott Macdonald -

The ladle of light-hearted farce is never far enough from the plot.

~ Scott Macdonald -

The film feels real, and of the moment.

~ Scott Macdonald -

The film feels real, and of the moment.

~ Scott Macdonald -

There is a menacing undercurrent.

~ Susanna Krawczyk -

There is a menacing undercurrent.

~ Susanna Krawczyk -

It explores the cheap and trashy yet it's fresh and engaging

~ Jennie Kermode -

It explores the cheap and trashy yet it's fresh and engaging

~ Jennie Kermode -

Beneath the cover of portraying the generalised horrors of war, the film is more subtly critical of America's conduct in both the Vietnam War and the current conflict in Iraq.

~ Max Crawford -

Beneath the cover of portraying the generalised horrors of war, the film is more subtly critical of America's conduct in both the Vietnam War and the current conflict in Iraq.

~ Max Crawford -

For all its sadness of theme, Prag is a strangely beautiful and moving film.

~ Chris -

For all its sadness of theme, Prag is a strangely beautiful and moving film.

~ Chris -

Luke Fowler's documentary tribute to the Scratch Orchestra is visually intriguing, politically dynamic, and surprisingly watchable.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Luke Fowler's documentary tribute to the Scratch Orchestra is visually intriguing, politically dynamic, and surprisingly watchable.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It is like nibbling for nearly two hours in the kitchens of the best chefs. At the end we are exhausted and hungry.

~ Chris -

It is like nibbling for nearly two hours in the kitchens of the best chefs. At the end we are exhausted and hungry.

~ Chris -

Despite a running time of barely 90 minutes, this film seems to take an age to get to the point.

~ Jeff Robson -

Despite a running time of barely 90 minutes, this film seems to take an age to get to the point.

~ Jeff Robson -

Konrad Niewolski recreates the sensation of paranoia that crawls inside your mind, disturbing the stability of plot devices.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Konrad Niewolski recreates the sensation of paranoia that crawls inside your mind, disturbing the stability of plot devices.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Pretty much a must for anyone who enjoys schlocky Seventies horror.

~ Susanna Krawczyk -

Pretty much a must for anyone who enjoys schlocky Seventies horror.

~ Susanna Krawczyk -

A bit of standard-but-creepy Asian horror stapled poorly to a dull-as-ditchwater Hollywood thriller.

~ Susanna Krawczyk -

A bit of standard-but-creepy Asian horror stapled poorly to a dull-as-ditchwater Hollywood thriller.

~ Susanna Krawczyk -

A chilling, but ultimately uplifting glimpse into the lives of those trapped within the repressive regime of East Germany.

~ Andrew Robertson -

A chilling, but ultimately uplifting glimpse into the lives of those trapped within the repressive regime of East Germany.

~ Andrew Robertson -

We experience the horror of war as one of the enemy and this is Eastwood's accomplishment.

~ Chris -

We experience the horror of war as one of the enemy and this is Eastwood's accomplishment.

~ Chris -

A shallow portrayal.

~ Susanna Krawczyk -

A shallow portrayal.

~ Susanna Krawczyk -

Imagery and sound are so closely wedded throughout that at times it seems meaningless to distinguish between the two.

~ Max Crawford -

Imagery and sound are so closely wedded throughout that at times it seems meaningless to distinguish between the two.

~ Max Crawford -

Half Nelson is a believeable film, depressing at times but smart and moving.

~ Darren Amner -

Half Nelson is a believeable film, depressing at times but smart and moving.

~ Darren Amner -

What rescues A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints from bland conventionality is Montiel's bravura approach to direction.

~ Anton Bitel -

What rescues A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints from bland conventionality is Montiel's bravura approach to direction.

~ Anton Bitel -

The UN describes Haiti as the most dangerous place on earth and this haunting documentary shows us why.

~ Gary Duncan -

The UN describes Haiti as the most dangerous place on earth and this haunting documentary shows us why.

~ Gary Duncan -

It is only after leaving the cinema that questions come bursting to the surface, not that they undermine Dr Niro’s magnificent achievement behind the camera

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

It is only after leaving the cinema that questions come bursting to the surface, not that they undermine Dr Niro’s magnificent achievement behind the camera

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Jokes are low-brow but delight audiences easily enough to give the film international appeal.

~ Chris -

Jokes are low-brow but delight audiences easily enough to give the film international appeal.

~ Chris -

Despite all the blood on screen, Fast Food Nation is a strangely anaemic movie.

~ The Exile -

Despite all the blood on screen, Fast Food Nation is a strangely anaemic movie.

~ The Exile -

Days of Glory is a great film, thoroughly deserving of the award attention that it has received.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Days of Glory is a great film, thoroughly deserving of the award attention that it has received.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Shakespearian, dynastic tragedy on an operatic scale

~ Max Crawford -

Shakespearian, dynastic tragedy on an operatic scale

~ Max Crawford -

A flawed film but a brave one, taking on subject matter which is rarely addressed this way in British film

~ Jennie Kermode -

A flawed film but a brave one, taking on subject matter which is rarely addressed this way in British film

~ Jennie Kermode -

Buenos Aires, 1977 is harrowing at times, terrifying at others.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Buenos Aires, 1977 is harrowing at times, terrifying at others.

~ Andrew Robertson -

A hilarious screwball comedy

~ Chris -

A hilarious screwball comedy

~ Chris -

Mesmerising, heart-wrenching, and a remarkably intimate vision.

~ Chris -

Mesmerising, heart-wrenching, and a remarkably intimate vision.

~ Chris -

At its most interesting when the robot-building team is in Herat, its hometown, the film addresses aspects of Afghan life not always noticed by outsiders.

~ 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 -

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 -

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 -

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 -