Tina Romero is in her element.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Almost safe for work.

~ Donald Munro -

It cannot be denied that Jay Kelly is interested in exploring the human condition through the lens of fame and fatherhood, but the romantic, sentimental, and saccharine tones come with a risk.

~ Paul Risker -

A solid, gripping, handsomely filmed pan-European production that deftly walks a tonal tightrope between comedy and tragedy.

~ Stephen Dalton -

Some superb, if sometimes overlong, Kung Fu fights combined with physical stunt work that is truly impressive.

~ Donald Munro -

Mexican director Kani Lapuerta invites both viewers and star to change their frames of reference in a documentary as bold as it is charming.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Production designers Manolito Glas and Maarten Piersma do a stunning job with the sets, creating an atmosphere of sleaze and decay which one can almost smell, whilst layering in detail.

~ Jennie Kermode -

What does deserve attention here is Harvey Davis’ score, which skillfully balances Lifestyle motifs with horror ones to great comic effect.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The story is told more through symbols, the expressionist, the surreal, rather that through the harsh binary abstractions of language.

~ Donald Munro -

Grau's film works as an gripping conflict

~ Titus-Cezar Constantinescu -

Tells a dark story in vivid colour, with lots of action and laughs, largely thanks to a great cast and truly dedicated technical team.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Although chiefly a concert film, Frias also includes more experimental segments in which Mexico’s relationship with death is considered.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Pniowsky...has raw star quality of the sort most actors can only dream of.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Fans will be familiar with most of what is presented here but it’s the voiceover from Dalglish and others that elevates this to a must-see for them.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The spirit of the film recalls coming-of-age classics like Stand by Me

~ Anda Pascuta -

Rivers' dreamlike approach has the quality of memory in places, full of figments and fragments, although that inevitably means some episodes are more engaging than others.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

With an eye of the colonial history of the Philippines, Red pieces together the story of several generations of a family whose lives have been inextricably wound up with the country’s developing film industry

~ Jennie Kermode -

There’s a lot of interesting stuff to explore here and it’s a shame that we don’t get into it in more depth.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The performance [Sweeney] gives here, slipping easily into Christy’s skin, is going to knock some people for six.

~ Jennie Kermode -

There’s smart staging, structural and visual misdirection, and a number of sharp twists.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A sometimes compelling, often baffling work that doesn’t really solve the inherent problem of its subject matter, but swings for the fences trying.

~ Jeremy Mathews -

Stuckmann and co-writer Sam Liz keep it all under tight control, even when the imagery suggests chaos or excess.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Maberly herself is unforgettable in a gem of a role.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The performances of double Oscar-nominated Blethyn and Riseborough provide hypnotic accounts of their characters as two vulnerable souls on the edge.

~ Richard Mowe -

Why should a story about two angels who have been hanging around Wisconsin for aeons, bored rigid, and wanting to go home, be understandable?

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Ramsay's style takes no prisoners.

~ Richard Mowe -

Although chiefly a concert film, Frias also includes more experimental segments in which Mexico’s relationship with death is considered.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

While some directors spend their lives crafting love letters to the worlds they create, Yorgos Lanthimos has developed a fine line in cinematic hate mail to humanity.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

One of the most deservedly popular movies in cinema history.

~ Stephen Carty -