Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival — A–Z of films

Vermeulen has chosen to make a quiet film that allows us to spend time with the men themselves and appreciate what they're going through.

Haneke goes far beyond pushing emotional buttons into territory where our most visceral fears lurk.

Emotional weight grounds the film and gives it a resonance beyond the confines of this single family home.

Every performance in it is perfect.

Writer Michael Arndt has cleverly captured the bribery and corruption which lie at the heart of most families.

The clashes between characters give this film plenty of catalysts for interesting discussions, and it is refreshing that these discussions are not framed as anything other than three young adults connecting.

It is funny and serious by turns... full of striking and humorous images.

The voices of the bereaved come through clearly in this sensitive film, whilst fragments of art and writing carry those of the deceased.

Russell impressively couples gambling strategies with self-help mantras to expose the machinations of searching minds who don't know how to flee the ugly banal lives of most common betrayals and economic anxieties.

Moore runs away with the film.