New York Film Festival — A–Z of films

The main horror element is a deep psychological manipulation that stays with you for days afterwards.

There is a violence here, a passion, all beautifully shot, all haunting.

For a film about the brimming over of one girl's emotional fervour, it does surprisingly little to elicit a 'gut response' from the audience.

When it comes to subverting the audience’s expectations, Joon-ho proves he is a puppet master, pulling our strings without us ever suspecting it.

This is a police procedural, but it's also about the nature of policing, about the gap between law and justice, the self and the state.

This is an actors' movie through and through, with all of them pulling off the key emotional scenes magnificently.

It plunges you right into a Midwest midwinter, where wind and snow scour a starkly beautiful landscape and a built-in woolly jumper is a prerequisite for survival.

The film is a purely visceral experience, which by and large does everything it sets out to do – repel, amuse, horrify, bore – with a sickening but punk-rock panache.

Filippo Timi is excellent as the young, supremely egotistical Mussolini.

The Wizard Of Oz has something fresh and intangibly pure for me every time I see it.

The slippery nature of the morality on show coupled with the shifting sands of the narrative makes this an uneasy watch - yet it is also a beautiful and masterfully constructed film.