The film works as well as it does because of the central pairing of Goussens and De Saeger, whose shared glances and stray touches work on an emotional level.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The film works as well as it does because of the central pairing of Goussens and De Saeger, whose shared glances and stray touches work on an emotional level.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

What directors Jos Bitelli and Ames Pennington deliver is, in its own way, close to the bone, but it’s also joyously silly.

~ Jennie Kermode -

What directors Jos Bitelli and Ames Pennington deliver is, in its own way, close to the bone, but it’s also joyously silly.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Matt Damon's performance is deliciously low-key.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Matt Damon's performance is deliciously low-key.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

It’s quickly apparent that entering prison means becoming part of the collective body that is the prisoner population, with the choreographed movements that accompany the songs reinforcing the sense of synchronicity.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

It’s quickly apparent that entering prison means becoming part of the collective body that is the prisoner population, with the choreographed movements that accompany the songs reinforcing the sense of synchronicity.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Mirza may sometimes over-indulge in sentiment, but there’s a warmth to the film that makes it easy to like, and she handles its more chaotic scenes with flair.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Mirza may sometimes over-indulge in sentiment, but there’s a warmth to the film that makes it easy to like, and she handles its more chaotic scenes with flair.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Waters' targets are tame and easy to hit.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Waters' targets are tame and easy to hit.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Gund’s poetic approach enables this documentary to go where others could not, to capture the existential effects on people of colour of day to day life in a white supremacist culture.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Gund’s poetic approach enables this documentary to go where others could not, to capture the existential effects on people of colour of day to day life in a white supremacist culture.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Visually it is astonishing, not only because of its effects and techno trickery, but cinematically the Wachowskis are so audacious.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Visually it is astonishing, not only because of its effects and techno trickery, but cinematically the Wachowskis are so audacious.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Takes a team approach to her material, using a group of documentary participants as a collective.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Takes a team approach to her material, using a group of documentary participants as a collective.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

An assured feature debut that’s confident enough to explore the sometimes complex dynamics at work while celebrating the community at its heart.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

An assured feature debut that’s confident enough to explore the sometimes complex dynamics at work while celebrating the community at its heart.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

There is a sense of living in the moment but for the future, a deep connection with nature and a willingness to face whatever happens together.

~ Jennie Kermode -

There is a sense of living in the moment but for the future, a deep connection with nature and a willingness to face whatever happens together.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It has the sweetness – and cartoonish violence – of a wholesome Sixties family film, albeit with a European attitude to nudity.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It has the sweetness – and cartoonish violence – of a wholesome Sixties family film, albeit with a European attitude to nudity.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This is a powerful example of the phenomenon because it has affected so many different individuals, lending itself to a deeper analysis than is often possible.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This is a powerful example of the phenomenon because it has affected so many different individuals, lending itself to a deeper analysis than is often possible.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Not everything here is successful, but the delicately handled character material pays dividends, and the real life chemistry between the two stars carries across well to their characters.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Not everything here is successful, but the delicately handled character material pays dividends, and the real life chemistry between the two stars carries across well to their characters.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Audiard has assembled a remarkable team of actors

~ Richard Mowe -

Audiard has assembled a remarkable team of actors

~ Richard Mowe -

The relationship between fiction and memory, artifice and life undergoes subtle shifts over the course of di Pace’s tale.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The relationship between fiction and memory, artifice and life undergoes subtle shifts over the course of di Pace’s tale.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It’s tribute to the collaborative feel of this film that the documentary continually takes its lead from what Harris is saying rather than pushing him this way and that.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

It’s tribute to the collaborative feel of this film that the documentary continually takes its lead from what Harris is saying rather than pushing him this way and that.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Mackay succeeds where [others] have failed partly because there is a deep vein of sincerity beneath the playful surface of her work.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Mackay succeeds where [others] have failed partly because there is a deep vein of sincerity beneath the playful surface of her work.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Amid all the deprivation Arnold, as is her style, uncovers elements that lift the action out of the ordinary and into the realms of fantasy and magical realism.

~ Richard Mowe -

Amid all the deprivation Arnold, as is her style, uncovers elements that lift the action out of the ordinary and into the realms of fantasy and magical realism.

~ Richard Mowe -

Hedison’s lens cannot show us everything. The film requires viewers to be as open as possible, to really listen and reflect.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Hedison’s lens cannot show us everything. The film requires viewers to be as open as possible, to really listen and reflect.

~ 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 -

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 -