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You genuinely feel how much his characters have faith in their gods and their folk tales as an extension of their everyday lives

Kurt does all the talking, which can be annoying, because he’s a boring guy. Mark is boring, too, but in a passive way.

Distances of time and space are collapsible in Fingscheidt’s hands.

Female freedom runs like gusts of wind through hair in Leena Yadav's Parched - refreshing and vital yet easily stilled.

Everything about Batra's film is constructed around longing.

The script by Peter Berry is sharp, tight, witty and intelligent, matched by supremely confidant actors, working in the Prime Suspect style of disciplined individuality.

It is difficult to shake the feeling that Yee's latest film is a collection of interesting research data, with a plot stitched together from other, superior films, and tacked on, apparently, as an afterthought.

Frankly, it's refreshing to see any film that features women having a good time at fan conventions without wearing Princess Leia slave girl outfits.

It has all the cringe-making laughs one might expect from a comedy of celebrity, but Rats And Cats also achieves a surprising subtlety.

Hazanavicius directs with flair for the style and mood of the Sixties.

Jonathan Pryce conveys the burden of inner conflict with exceptional subtlety, as James Wilby carries Sassoon's intellectual fury with fortitude.

Renaissance is blessed with a script that not only feels like genuine noir rather than a hastily written pastiche, but also is not subordinated to all the visual razzle-dazzle.

A further challenge is the credibility of the chemistry - it's in two senses that a flame flickers between the Curies, and in both it convinces.

Finally, a horror movie worth bragging about.

Clay doesn’t want for ideas but his symbolism is in grave danger of smothering the story

It's not just sexist, ableist and desperately badly researched, it's also, purely and simply, not very good.

Sergio G Sánchez has lofty ambitions, involving guilt, coming of age and a whisper of the supernatural - but without the emergency brake he is usually offered by whichever director he is working with to rein him in.

More two-dimensional than many of the videogames it borrows from.

The weirdness thrives on understatement

Lowe’s approach is an exhiliarating, if sometimes a bit scrappy, mix of high and low brow.

The dystopian stories in Spanish director Chino Moya's feature debut nest within one another like a series of Russian dolls - dolls that have been carved by someone with a soft-spot for JG Ballard.

There is a suprise twist at the end, which is always nice, and the actors are made to work for their salaries.

Glen keeps a balance between the plot and the action that is believable.

Venus is delightful. Gentle. Lyrical. Funny.

Eggers draws fully on the iconography of the period, the muted greys and greens of the landscape captured by cinematographer Jarin Blaschkee broken only by repeated flashes of cardinal red, bringing with it the suggestion of cardinal sin.

Nicole Taylor's quickfire script provides great material for the actors to work with .

Unashamedly arty yet still packs an emotional punch.