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The plot is layered in fantasy and fiction and yet retains a powerful idealism

If you’re looking for explosive, mind-boggling special-effects driven set-pieces coupled with broodingly patriotic one-liners from Neeson et al, you won’t be disappointed.

No less enigmatic, broad-reaching and majestically paced than a jellyfish.

Neither scandalous, nor inspiring.

A beautifully crafted film.

A film of considerable depth, intelligence and accomplishment.

On paper, Invisible Waves may sound like just another Asian action policier or revenge thriller, but in reality it is altogether more abstract and elusive than that.

There's a wonderful flexibility to Fukatsu's performance as a woman who bears endless slights as she struggles to retain her decorum.

The film does an impressive job of bringing us close to its young female protagonists, and never more so than when showing us their appreciation of the absurd.

Generally, this film engages more intellectually with emotion than Kore-eda's later more heartfelt work.

It’s aided by Ryuichi Sakamoto’s highly evocative score, which locates it in time and space as well as providing a dramatic undercurrent to the action.

Mongol charges onto the screen from the beautifully desolate steppes, leaving clouds of dust, severed limbs and burning yurts in its wake. This is a classic epic.

What could have been turned into a gritty, gloomy film with a penchant for gore, instead retains the lighthearted feel of the manga.

It looks as if Scorsese is battling his own demons, oblivious of the pain he inflicts upon an unsuspecting audience

This portrait of loss and fractured memory achieves an aching beauty that is without precedent in the director's previous work.