You are unlikely to see a better-looking film this year or a film that is more of its moment – but if you see this a few years hence, it will no doubt already have started looking as redundant as an Eighties arcade game.

~ Anton Bitel -

You are unlikely to see a better-looking film this year or a film that is more of its moment – but if you see this a few years hence, it will no doubt already have started looking as redundant as an Eighties arcade game.

~ Anton Bitel -

Undoubtedly a classy mainstream product.

~ Jeff Robson -

Undoubtedly a classy mainstream product.

~ Jeff Robson -

The pace is well controlled and never too breathless to lose direction.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The pace is well controlled and never too breathless to lose direction.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

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 -

A classic case of an intriguing film concept gone to waste.

~ Owen Van Spall -

A classic case of an intriguing film concept gone to waste.

~ Owen Van Spall -

The splintered pain of grief interrupted marks out the directorial debut of Reed Morano.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The splintered pain of grief interrupted marks out the directorial debut of Reed Morano.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A shallow, stagnant film that whiffs of plagiarism.

~ Donald Munro -

A shallow, stagnant film that whiffs of plagiarism.

~ Donald Munro -

An odd mix of affectionate satire and jarringly brutal slapstick, the former more successful than the latter except for when an unhinged Jim Carrey is on the prowl.

~ David Graham -

An odd mix of affectionate satire and jarringly brutal slapstick, the former more successful than the latter except for when an unhinged Jim Carrey is on the prowl.

~ David Graham -

The writers are crafty enough to stick to a formula yet still keep things fresh, with the 'central' diagnosis often kept very much on the fringes, so that the relationships within the story are allowed free reign.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The writers are crafty enough to stick to a formula yet still keep things fresh, with the 'central' diagnosis often kept very much on the fringes, so that the relationships within the story are allowed free reign.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The end result is sweet but its best ideas are underdeveloped, leaving it with the slightness of something conceived on the hoof.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The end result is sweet but its best ideas are underdeveloped, leaving it with the slightness of something conceived on the hoof.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

It is in these details, the small objects Jonze provides us with in his film of disembodied desires, that essences become distilled.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

It is in these details, the small objects Jonze provides us with in his film of disembodied desires, that essences become distilled.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

What might in lesser hands have been an aimless, stilted disaster here becomes, thanks to these capable, funny capable actors, a finely observed naturalist comedy of manners.

~ Anton Bitel -

What might in lesser hands have been an aimless, stilted disaster here becomes, thanks to these capable, funny capable actors, a finely observed naturalist comedy of manners.

~ Anton Bitel -

Ruzowitzky bobs and weaves around the cliches in ways that lift Deadfall above many of its genre contemporaries.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Ruzowitzky bobs and weaves around the cliches in ways that lift Deadfall above many of its genre contemporaries.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The plotting is completely incoherent and balanced atop a trembling tower of absurdities.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The plotting is completely incoherent and balanced atop a trembling tower of absurdities.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The themes of friendship and teamwork are targeted at young audiences but it zips along at pace - a reminder that you don't need super-complex plotting, so long as you deliver on laughs.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The themes of friendship and teamwork are targeted at young audiences but it zips along at pace - a reminder that you don't need super-complex plotting, so long as you deliver on laughs.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The perspective feels forced and wrong.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The perspective feels forced and wrong.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

You have no idea how enjoyable this is

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

You have no idea how enjoyable this is

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

With so much good work involved in the cowboy side of the film, it's a real shame that the aliens appear to have been hastily sketched on the back of an envelope.

~ Jennie Kermode -

With so much good work involved in the cowboy side of the film, it's a real shame that the aliens appear to have been hastily sketched on the back of an envelope.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It's an unbridled pleasure to see Bateman off the leash for once.

~ David Graham -

It's an unbridled pleasure to see Bateman off the leash for once.

~ David Graham -