Valle’s deadpan comedy demonstrates a master image-maker at work.

~ Michael Pattison -

Valle’s deadpan comedy demonstrates a master image-maker at work.

~ Michael Pattison -

Riding along on the strength of its central mystery, They Will Return just about gets away with its unevenly paced story and variable acting.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Riding along on the strength of its central mystery, They Will Return just about gets away with its unevenly paced story and variable acting.

~ Jennie Kermode -

While there is much to admire about Spring Breakers in terms of visual aesthetic and directorial style, those aspects are undermined by a run of the mill narrative not nearly as subversive as it appears to want to be.

~ Neil Mitchell -

While there is much to admire about Spring Breakers in terms of visual aesthetic and directorial style, those aspects are undermined by a run of the mill narrative not nearly as subversive as it appears to want to be.

~ Neil Mitchell -

If Malick's lands were bad, then Wheatley's are sad, as small injustices, petty jealousies and perceived slights lead to cold blooded murder and childish revenge.

~ Neil Mitchell -

If Malick's lands were bad, then Wheatley's are sad, as small injustices, petty jealousies and perceived slights lead to cold blooded murder and childish revenge.

~ Neil Mitchell -

There’s no reassurance to be found in this cold world but Campos’s talent for getting mood whistling abominably through your ears is worthy of admiration.

~ Sophie Monks Kaufman -

There’s no reassurance to be found in this cold world but Campos’s talent for getting mood whistling abominably through your ears is worthy of admiration.

~ Sophie Monks Kaufman -

Pincus treads that tricky terrain of having a protagonist who is deeply sceptical of the self-serious outsiders he meets while at the same time allowing for the possibility that it is he who may be in the wrong.

~ Michael Pattison -

Pincus treads that tricky terrain of having a protagonist who is deeply sceptical of the self-serious outsiders he meets while at the same time allowing for the possibility that it is he who may be in the wrong.

~ Michael Pattison -

As the film progresses, Seidl allows scenes to play out longer than expected, as they enter that uncomfortable territory (for protagonists, audiences and censor boards alike) of total unpredictability.

~ Michael Pattison -

As the film progresses, Seidl allows scenes to play out longer than expected, as they enter that uncomfortable territory (for protagonists, audiences and censor boards alike) of total unpredictability.

~ Michael Pattison -

Seidl manages to make this ordeal excruciating to watch without ever being graphic, visually or even narratively.

~ Michael Pattison -

Seidl manages to make this ordeal excruciating to watch without ever being graphic, visually or even narratively.

~ Michael Pattison -

Seidl draws absurdity and hilarity from a narrative arrangement that is predictably and increasingly caustic.

~ Michael Pattison -

Seidl draws absurdity and hilarity from a narrative arrangement that is predictably and increasingly caustic.

~ Michael Pattison -

Pablo Larraín's No is a resounding yes!

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Pablo Larraín's No is a resounding yes!

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

This goes on for more than two hours and will bore some viewers to death. Others, though, will find this quiet, complex film a fascinating piece of art in itself.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This goes on for more than two hours and will bore some viewers to death. Others, though, will find this quiet, complex film a fascinating piece of art in itself.

~ Jennie Kermode -

All four actresses are excellent; forever chewing gum, Bartsch in particular is superb.

~ Michael Pattison -

All four actresses are excellent; forever chewing gum, Bartsch in particular is superb.

~ Michael Pattison -

Jazmin López’s debut feature is in narrative terms a bit too foggy to sustain one’s emotional engagement.

~ Michael Pattison -

Jazmin López’s debut feature is in narrative terms a bit too foggy to sustain one’s emotional engagement.

~ Michael Pattison -

An awe-inspiring experience.

~ Robert Munro -

An awe-inspiring experience.

~ Robert Munro -

Seidl seems interested in these people precisely because they’re all too easily judged by others, even though their needs and desires are relatably ordinary.

~ Michael Pattison -

Seidl seems interested in these people precisely because they’re all too easily judged by others, even though their needs and desires are relatably ordinary.

~ Michael Pattison -

Gabriel Mascaro tasked seven children across five different Brazilian cities with filming their live-in housekeepers for a week, and consequently edited their footage into a slim but coherent volume.

~ Michael Pattison -

Gabriel Mascaro tasked seven children across five different Brazilian cities with filming their live-in housekeepers for a week, and consequently edited their footage into a slim but coherent volume.

~ Michael Pattison -

In the film’s second half, soundmen are visible setting up for scenes as the actors play out semi-improvised scenarios that carry a weight that is by turns funny and intense.

~ Michael Pattison -

In the film’s second half, soundmen are visible setting up for scenes as the actors play out semi-improvised scenarios that carry a weight that is by turns funny and intense.

~ Michael Pattison -

The actor appears in Rezwin’s film to be as shy as he is sensitive.

~ Michael Pattison -

The actor appears in Rezwin’s film to be as shy as he is sensitive.

~ Michael Pattison -

You can enter through the objects, like an Eames chair or three pairs of Ray Bans, bought online. Or through the religious conflict inherent in a bacon bagel.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

You can enter through the objects, like an Eames chair or three pairs of Ray Bans, bought online. Or through the religious conflict inherent in a bacon bagel.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Bleak, stripped down and haunting.

~ Owen Van Spall -

Bleak, stripped down and haunting.

~ Owen Van Spall -

A fairytale for old romantics everywhere, who believe that the weapons of friendship and commitment are as vital in the fight for a relationship, as love.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A fairytale for old romantics everywhere, who believe that the weapons of friendship and commitment are as vital in the fight for a relationship, as love.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The title of Niall McGann’s documentary is a joke, elevating the work to a level of self-importance that the mischief therein consistently and amusingly undercuts.

~ Michael Pattison -

The title of Niall McGann’s documentary is a joke, elevating the work to a level of self-importance that the mischief therein consistently and amusingly undercuts.

~ Michael Pattison -

Ulrich Seidl’s unique, stylised documentary depicts in trademark, single-take set-ups a number of Viennese residents and their relationships to their beloved pets.

~ Michael Pattison -

Ulrich Seidl’s unique, stylised documentary depicts in trademark, single-take set-ups a number of Viennese residents and their relationships to their beloved pets.

~ Michael Pattison -

There’s something quietly enthralling about this ambitious road movie.

~ Michael Pattison -

There’s something quietly enthralling about this ambitious road movie.

~ Michael Pattison -

As a kind of call to arms against nostalgia on the one hand but forgetfulness on the other, Uruguayan-born Michael Wahrmann charts ambitious terrain.

~ Michael Pattison -

As a kind of call to arms against nostalgia on the one hand but forgetfulness on the other, Uruguayan-born Michael Wahrmann charts ambitious terrain.

~ Michael Pattison -

Ashcroft’s interpretation steers the story away from simple tragedy as we see Mortensen making gains as well as losses.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Though likely a little too whimsical for some, Boys Go To Jupiter seems destined to develop a cult following.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Carreira shows how quiet desperation can be eroding

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Although it could easily have been played as a farce, it’s friendship and human feeling that is the key to this film.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The director drops her audience into the lives of these two women and lets the rhythm of their lives guide the narrative.

~ Paul Risker -

More than just an extended music video.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The heat is omnipresent, rippling through the air, distorting what we see, distorting time and identity.

~ Jennie Kermode -

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 -

Ashcroft’s interpretation steers the story away from simple tragedy as we see Mortensen making gains as well as losses.

~ Jennie Kermode -

More than just an extended music video.

~ 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 -

Hodierne handles the blend of styles within the film with a laid back confidence that makes it easy to lower one’s guard at the wrong moments.

~ 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 -