Raindance Film Festival — A–Z of films

All the fixed camerawork, while certainly capturing Guido's emotional stasis, makes for rather unengaging spectacle.

Feels like one long trawl through the photo album of somebody else's holiday.

Berberich shoots the film in a series of stylised, long single takes – a restriction he turns into a virtue.

Despite the busy plotwork, surprisingly little actually happens.

Reeking with authentic period atmosphere, a rich ska based soundtrack and featuring unshowy but solid performances.

While the movie has some interesting ideas, the acting from the leads really lets it down.

The names and job titles might read like a Guy Ritchie synopsis, but it soon becomes clear this is an altogether darker, more sober look at the criminal life.

A skillful cast and writer/director Fujiya's eye for detail and vivid imagination add up to a warm-hearted and engaging picture.

There's enough style and aplomb to give this the makings of a minor cult classic and a suitable addition to the rotting canon.

An intelligently wrought and visually textured thriller.

A testament to harrowing real-life experiences.

If only more sport were filmed like this, it might gain a whole new audience.

A moving, entertaining and inspiring documentary that really is about what happiness can be, punk or no punk.

A taut thriller, rooted more in atmosphere, character and nail-gnawing suspense than the sort of sadistic gory excess that has otherwise typified this decade's horror.

This is a tiny film at just two minutes in length, but it's a lot of fun.

Javier Beltrán is the real standout, delivering a performance that could easily have slipped into sentimentality with heartbreaking precision.

This grisly Australian torture horror ably shows that you don’t need all manner of fiendish contraptions to deliver on the jumps and jolts.

While the accompanying imagery is quite impressive, it is more of a distraction than an aid to the story.

Some sections of the film feel like a soapbox for her to stand on, to proselytize her personal politics; to bolster her image as a radical poet.

Despite the important message, you're left with the feeling that it hasn't actually told us anything new or created anything fresh.

Senseless is a well-crafted, relatively restrained affair, boasting rock solid performances, believable characters (in extremis), highly effective sound design, and a clinically claustrophobic Big Brother-style set.

A miscellany of characters, scenes and events that studiously avoids a plot.

A neat twist that brings more sonority than the seemingly simple set up would suggest.

Holland’s directing shows a lot or flair and promise, often finding a striking image or unusual angle in his stark cityscapes.