This Week&#039;s Best Movie Releases &amp; Discounted Liverpool Cinema Tickets

2 ~ BRIEF HISTORY OF A FAMILY.

★★★★★ Lin Jianjie’s remarkable debut feature keeps you guessing to the final scene – a thrilling exquisitely constructed drama directed and performed immaculately. ~ The Guardian.

3 ~ ANORA.

~ 2025 Oscar Winner: Best Film + Best Director (Sean Baker) + Best Actress (Mikey Madison) + Best Original Screenplay + Best Editing.

★★★★★ Gorgeous, deranged - and one of the films of the year - the director of The Florida Project delivers an unpredictable rags to riches tale about a young stripper. ~ The i.

★★★★★ Sean Baker’s screwball Cinderella tale vaults him towards greatness. ~ The Observer.

★★★★★ The most entertaining chronicler of contemporary degeneracy has miraculously resurrected the screwball comedy. ~ The Irish Times.

★★★★★ His story of a Russian oligarch’s son who falls for a sex worker is a Coen Brothers-style black comedy and deservedly won the Palme d’Or this year. ~ The Times.

★★★★★ Energy fizzes through Baker’s anti-Cinderella story in which Mikey Madison is an Oscar shoo-in with her bristlingly real performance as a strip-club dancer. ~ Financial Times.

★★★★★ Madison makes a name for herself in this mouthy, moving story of stripper meets oligarch – and it's a laugh a minute. ~ Evening Standard.

★★★★★ ‘Pretty Woman’ with a vodka hangover? Sean Baker’s darkly funny sex-work screwball is a blast. ~ Time Out.

★★★★★ ~ Radio Times.

★★★★★ ~ The Telegraph.

★★★★ ~ The Independent.

★★★★ ~ Little White Lies.

★★★★ ~ The Guardian.

★★★★ ~ Empire.

★★★★ ~ BBC.

4 ~ FLOW.

~ 2025 Oscar Winner: Best Animated Feature Film.

★★★★★ Mysterious and magical, this Oscar-winning survival adventure is an animation worthy of Studio Ghibli. ~ Time Out

★★★★★ Overflowing with gravity, beauty and heart, Flow is one of the most unique and astonishing experiences this reviewer has had in 20 years on the job. A monumental achievement. ~ Irish Independent.

★★★★★ A mesmerising, wondrous example of animation’s potential; a thoughtful allegory about ecocide and death; and an adorable ode to four-legged (and two-legged) friends. No ebbs here: Flow is the real deal. ~ Empire.

★★★★ ~ Little White Lies.

★★★★ ~ The Guardian.

★★★★ ~ Telegraph.

5 ~ THE WILD ROBOT.

~ 2025 Oscar Nominee: Best Animated Film + Best Original Score (Kris Bowers) + Best Sound.

★★★★ An artificially intelligent robot learns to adapt to the natural world in this inspired animation. ~ Radio Times.

★★★★★ The most moving animation in decades. Recent studio animation hardly lacks technological dazzle, but it’s hard to recall a time when the state-of-the-art felt this much like art. ~ The Telegraph.

★★★★★ This superb family film could become a classic. Lupita Nyong’o and Pedro Pascal star in what is the best feature cartoon from a major studio in years. ~ Irish Times.

★★★★ ~ The Financial Times.

★★★★ ~ The Independent.

★★★★ ~ The Observer.

★★★★ ~ The Guardian.

★★★★ ~ The Times.

★★★★ ~ Empire.

6 ~ I'M STILL HERE.

~ 2025 Oscar Winner: Best International Film

★★★★ An elegant drama that blends the political and the personal. ~ Radio Times.

★★★★★ This is one of the greatest movies about motherhood. Walter Salles’s drama about a woman searching for her missing husband is rightfully nominated for three Oscars, including best actress for its extraordinary lead performance. ~ The Times.

★★★★★ Fernanda Torres is remarkable in Salles’s superb drama set in 1970s Brazil. ~ Irish Independent.

★★★★ This sensational true-life tale depicts the abduction of a congressman in military-occupied Brazil in 1970 – and fully deserves its three Oscar nods. ~ The Independent.

★★★★★ The gut-wrenching story of Eunice Paiva and her family from the dark days of Brazilian dictatorship is a triumph of humanity. ~ Evening Standard.

★★★★✭ Salles, his cast, and crew have done justice to the Paiva family's story. You need to do the same. ~ RTE.

★★★★✭ This already history-making effort is deserving of all its laurels. ~ Little White Lies.

★★★★ From The Motorcycle Diaries to On the Road, Walter Salles is a great celebrator of liberation, both personal and political. The two come together in stirring and poignant ways here. You can feel the shadow of a contemporary Brazilian leader, Jair Bolsonaro, hanging over it. ~ Time Out.

★★★★ ~ The Irish Times.

★★★★ ~ Sunday Times.

★★★★ ~ Daily Telegraph.

★★★★ ~ Financial Times.

★★★★ ~ The Scotsman.

7 ~ SANTOSH.

~ 2025 BAFTA Nominee: Outstanding Debut by British Writer.

★★★★ This terrifically tense cop movie digs into sexism and caste prejudice in India. ~ The Guardian.

★★★★ An Indian police constable navigates murder and corruption in this gripping and powerfully feminist procedural. ~ Time Out.

8 ~ CONCLAVE.

~ 2025 Oscar Winner: Best Adapted Screenplay.

★★★★ A papal thriller that treads on eggshells, Conclave is one of the year’s most deftly balanced films. Pulpy and pensive in equal measure. ~ Empire.

★★★★★ Sinfully entertaining and divinely provocative all while breaking bread on modern day power struggles. ~ RTE

★★★★★ Ralph Fiennes gives one of the performances of the year as a cardinal assailed on all sides in Edward Berger’s elegant adaptation of Robert Harris’s Vatican bestseller. ~ The Observer.

★★★★★ When the time comes to look back at his long career, a new high point has arrived in the form of this beleaguered papal gumshoe trying to solve a riddle. ~ Irish Independent.

★★★★★ Berger’s account of cardinals battling to be the new Pope is a thrilling succession story, and the Oscar-worthy astonishing Ralph Fiennes is simply hypnotic. ~ Evening Standard.

★★★★ A high-camp gripper, like the world’s most serious Carry On film. ~ The Guardian.

★★★★ ~ Financial Times.

★★★★ ~ The Irish Times.

★★★★ ~ Sunday Times.

★★★★ ~ Radio Times.

★★★★ ~ The Times.

★★★★ ~ Time Out.

★★★★ ~ The i.

9 ~ BLACK BAG.

★★★★ Steven Soderbergh is back to his very best with a knowing and outlandishly sexy spy thriller. ~ Time Out.

★★★★★ Soderbergh’s new thriller about married spies is brilliant, sexy, and as tight as a drum; an immensely pleasurable new genre outing. ~ The Independent.

★★★★ More John le Carré than James Bond, this is a very entertaining thriller, which applies Soderbergh’s well-trodden heist mechanics to espionage with slickly rewarding results. ~ Empire.

★★★★ ~ Irish Independent.

★★★★ ~ Sunday Times.

★★★★ ~ Irish Times.

★★★★ ~ The i.

★★★★ ~ RTE.

10 ~ SISTER MIDNIGHT.

★★★★ Oddly poignant — and quite beautiful. ~ Financial Times.

★★★★ This Mumbai-set comic horror finds the terror in arranged marriage. ~ The Guardian.

★★★★ Karan Kandhari’s film about a misanthropic newlywed giving into her feral impulses is an unpredictable, genre-bending delight. Like its heroine, this flouts all convention. ~ Little White Lies.

★★★★ A feral feminist fable with a whole lot of bite. ~ Time Out.

★★★★ An endlessly inventive marriage of perfectly pitched comedy and deranged ambience. ~ Irish Times.

★★★★ And a rousing soundtrack, from Bengali folk to the strains of Iggy Pop, whose 1977 track gives the film its title, all lend this surreal and inventive comedy horror unique flavour. ~ Radio Times.

11 ~ LAST BREATH.

★★★★ Prepare to be stuck at the bottom of the North Sea with Woody Harrelson and co in Alex Parkinson’s extraordinary, unbearably tense deep-sea drama based on real events. ~ The Observer.

★★★★ Harrelson and Simu Liu star in a terrifyingly well-constructed thrilling adaptation of a documentary about a nightmarish accident. ~ The Guardian.

★★★★ Parkinson’s thriller about saturation divers conveys the vastness and terror of the open ocean. ~ The Times.

★★★★ This subsea survival thriller will suck the air from your lungs. ~ Time Out.

12 ~ ONE OF THEM DAYS.

★★★★ A welcome return to the easy-breezy (and very puerile) buddy comedy. ~ The Telegraph.

★★★★ SZA sizzles as a goofy dreamer in her movie debut. The R&B star clicks perfectly with Keke Palmer in Lawrence Lamont’s zippy LA buddy comedy. ~ Financial Times.

★★★★ One of Them Days is proof that Palmer is one of our best movie stars; the ‘Nope’ star sports a Julia Roberts grin and demonstrates a masterclass in comedy reaction shots. ~ The Independent.

13 ~ BRIDGET JONES: MAD ABOUT THE BOY.

★★★★★ Now in her 50s, Renée Zellweger’s Bridget is a singleton once more – and what a joy it is to see her back on our screens. There's big laughs and even bigger emotions in her best film yet. ~ The Telegraph.

★★★★ Bridget faces new challenges in parenting and love, but it’s the familiar faces around her who deliver heart and humour in this unexpectedly poignant fourth outing. ~ The Observer.

★★★★★ This is the best film since 2001's original – a deeply moving and joyful look at grief, friendship and love that is a triumph in its own right. ~ The i.

★★★★ ~ Irish Independent.

★★★★ ~ The Independent.

★★★★ ~ Sunday Times.

★★★★ ~ Radio Times.

★★★★ ~ Irish Times.

★★★★ ~ The Times.

★★★★ ~ Time Out.

★★★★ ~ Empire.

14 ~ DOG MAN.

★★★✭ DreamWorks’ second feature-length Dav Pilkey adaptation is a lot of bark and solid bite; zippy, beautifully constructed family fun. ~ Little White Lies.

★★★★ An animation with wisdom and bite. ~ The Times.

★★★★ Dav Pilkey’s half-dog, half-cop Captain Underpants spin-off is now a superb animation with cross-generational appeal. ~ The Observer.

★★★★ Centering on a half-human half-canine cop, this colourful adaptation of the popular children’s books retains all the series’ wacky excesses. Like something a six-year-old would make up after bingeing on Maoams. ~ The Telegraph.

★★★★ ~ Irish Independent.

★★★★ ~ RTE.

15 ~ MICKEY 17.

★★★★★ Bong Joon Ho's best English movie to date and arguably Robert Pattinson's best movie ever. ~ Total Film.

★★★★ The South Korean director packs everything but the kitchen sink into his follow-up to the Oscar darling Parasite. ~ The Times.

★★★★ The Korean auteur's third English-language feature is undoubtedly the weirdest film this winter. ~ Radio Times.

★★★★★ An absurdist, anti-capitalist, Trump-mocking masterpiece; the Oscar winner somehow convinced Warner Bros to finance a costly sci-fi epic about the plight of the working class – and led by an actor doing one of his trademark silly voices. ~ The Independent.

★★★★ Robert Pattinson is a hangdog delight in this enjoyably mad sci-fi confection which satirises the bleak religification of 21st-century corporate identity. ~ Telegraph.

★★★★ Gross and heartwarming in equal measure. ~ Little White Lies.

★★★★ Bong’s peerless storytelling instincts are on display, deftly navigating a tangled nonlinear structure and making light work of the picture’s hefty two-and-a-quarter-hour running time. ~ The Observer.

★★★★ Like Mickey himself, it’s goofy and a little inconsistent, but it’s also funny, thoughtful and more plausible than we might like. A charming space oddity for these unusual times. ~ Empire.

★★★★ A highly entertaining absurdist ride. ~ The i.

★★★★ ~ Evening Standard.

★★★★ ~ Time Out.

★★★★ ~ NME.

ALSO SCREENING:

★★★✭ A Complete Unknown.

★★★✭ The Last Showgirl.

★★★✭ Paddington in Peru.

★★★✭ Companion.

★★★ Ne Zha 2.

★★★ When Autumn Falls.

★★★ The Sloth Lane.

★★★ Bonhoeffer.

★★★ Moana 2.

★★★ The Monkey.

★★★ Mufasa: The Lion King.

★★★ Y2K.

★★✭ Sonic The Hedgehog 3.

★★✭ Panda Bear in Africa.

★★✭ The Alto Knights.

★★ Captain America: Brave New World.

★★ Snow White.

★★ Marching Powder.

★★ Opus.

★★ Oh My Goodness.

★★ Giants of La Mancha.

★✭ In The Lost Lands.

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NEW TO STREAMING:

(Updated 21 Mar 2025):

BBC iPLAYER & ITV X ~ THE THIRD MAN

~ 1951 Oscar Winner: Best Black & White Cinematography.

★★★★★ An iconic film noir that's still fresh despite being familiar. ~ BBC.

★★★★★ Few films more effectively capture the crumbling infrastructure and opportunistic lawlessness of postwar Europe. And none better translate the snaking treachery of Graham Greene's stories and his worlds of cynical expats and casual betrayal. ~ The Times.

★★★★★ Set in postwar occupied Vienna, the plot is a corker, littered with memorable moments and played to perfection by an unforgettable cast that's led with distinction by Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten. ~ Radio Times.

★★★★★ Blustering, conceited, charming – Welles is still spellbinding in Carol Reed’s compelling parable of guilt, 70 years on. ~ The Guardian.

★★★★★ This is a film which does away with such cretinous inanity as offering up goodies and baddies, instead presenting its cast of characters as doing things which they believe to be good, but are not seen as such through the eyes of observers. ~ Little White Lies.

★★★★★ Seventy years on such sombreness seems timely, as does Harry Lime, Welles's deliciously elusive antihero. ~ The Times.

ITV X

BBC iPLAYER & DISNEY+ ~ THE FRENCH CONNECTION

~ 1972 Oscar Winner: Best Picture + Best Actor (Gene Hackman) + Director (William Friedkin) + Best Adapted Screenplay + Best Film Editing.

★★★★★ A hard as nails crime saga with a blistering central performance. ~ Empire.

★★★★★ It's hard to imagine it now, but there are only two types of cop movie: pre and post-The French Connection. That's how big it is. ~ The Times.

★★★★★ Based on a real-life drugs bust by New York narcotics cops, this crime drama from director William Friedkin brings a fluid, documentary-style realism to Ernest Tidyman's adaptation that makes it one of the most influential movies of a very fertile decade for American film. ~ Radio Times.

★★★★★ Friedkin's symphony of long, sharp shocks is memorable for any number of sequences. ~ Time Out.

Disney+

BBC iPLAYER ~ THE CONVERSATION

~ 1975 BAFTA Winner: Best Sound Track + Best Editing.

★★★★★ A fantastic reminder of why 70s Hollywood is so often the benchmark for modern moviedom to aspire to. ~ Empire.

★★★★★ In this small masterpiece from director Francis Ford Coppola, Gene Hackman gives a superb performance as the lonely surveillance expert tracking the movements and voices of Frederic Forrest and Cindy Williams, only to find that the marital infidelity he supposes he is observing could be part of a murder plot. ~ Radio Times.

★★★★★ Though it was commercially lost in the shuffle between The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, The Conversation ranks among the finest films of Francis Ford Coppola's career. ~ AllMovie.

★★★★★ Overshadowed by The Godfather Part II, which also came out in 1974, this deeply unsettling character portrait has one of the bleakest twists in paranoia thriller history. ~ The Times.

★★★★★ In contrast to the breadth of Coppola's mob sagas, "The Conversation" is an intricate and unsettlingly subtle character study, with a very strong performance from Hackman. ~ BBC.

Coppola's cerebral classic of paranoia and surveillance still looks outstanding, and more relevant than ever in the age of CCTV. ~ The Guardian.

AMAZON PRIME - BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN.

~ 2006 Oscar Winner: Best Director (Ang Lee) + Best Original Score (Gustavo Santaolalla) + Best Adapted Screenplay.

★★★★★ A truly epic romance story from a director at the peak of his powers. ~ BBC.

★★★★★ Ang Lee's epic love story about two cowboys is so much more than just a "gay" western; it's an exquisitely made and moving account of the corrosive nature of suppressed love. ~ Radio Times.

★★★★★ A wonderful meditation on longing and regret shot with an eye for classic Hollywood. ~ Empire.

★★★★★ The film is a major contribution to our understanding of the western genre. To call it a gay movie would be, if not necessarily misleading, a wholly inadequate way of describing the way it strikes a straight audience. ~ The Guardian.

Amazon Prime

AMAZON PRIME - PATHER PANCHALI.

~ 1958 BAFTA Nominee: Best Film.

★★★★★ One of the greatest pictures ever made. ~ The Observer.

★★★★★ Fresh as a daisy after all these years, Satyajit Ray's 1955 spellbinder comes underpinned by a tumultuous Ravi Shankar sitar and paints a ground's-eye portrait of life in an impoverished Bengali village. Intensely local and gloriously universal. ~ The Guardian.

★★★★★ Ray made his debut as director with this masterpiece of world cinema. Played with restraint by a non-professional cast and influenced by such Italian neorealist features as Bicycle Thieves, its story of a young Bengali boy's introduction to the ways of the world is remarkable for its simplicity and humanity. ~ Radio Times.

★★★★★ Just how this team of novices fashioned one of cinema's enduring classics is a miraculous mystery. ~ Total Film.

★★★★★ A remarkable debut that though slow is extremely absorbing. ~ Empire.

★★★★ ~ BBC.

Amazon Prime

AMAZON PRIME ~ MANCHESTER BY THE SEA

~ 2017 Oscar Winner: Best Actor (Casey Affleck) + Best Original Screenplay.

★★★★★ Perhaps the most emotionally intelligent film you will see this year. ~ The Times.

★★★★★ If ever there was a film that epitomised the saying ‘no pain, no gain’, this is it. It packs a real wallop. ~ Total Film.

★★★★★ A drama of rage and grief that stands on the brink of the inexpressible. ~ Financial Times.

★★★★★ Casey Affleck is mesmerising as a Boston janitor who has to care for his dead brother’s son, in Kenneth Lonergan’s weighty study of grief and family ties. ~ The Guardian.

★★★★★ All this misery adds up to a masterpiece. ~ Evening Standard.

★★★★★ Masterfully told and beautifully acted, Manchester By The Sea is a shattering yet graceful elegy of loss and grief. ~ Empire.

★★★★★ An emotional powerhouse with the weave of great literature. ~ Tim Out.

★★★★★ It's a story about grief and redemption, but it's told with the same complexity, depth and humour as Kenneth Lonergan's debut film, You Can Count On Me. ~ The Scotsman.

★★★★★ Manchester by the Sea manages to do the seemingly impossible. It is a deeply moving study of coping with abject grief, yet it is not profoundly grim. ~ RTE.

★★★★★ Manchester by the Sea is wistful, elegiac, and the sights and sounds of an Atlantic fishing town are beautifully captured by the muted cinematography of Jody Lee Lipes. But there are moments of high drama, even comedy. ~ Irish Independent.

★★★★★ As painfully sad as all this sounds not once does the film feel forced or overdone. Yes there's tragedy, but it always sits believably alongside the everyday. ~ Sky Cinema.

★★★★★ ~ The i.

★★★★✭ ~ Little White Lies.

★★★★ ~ The Independent.

★★★★ ~ The Irish Times.

★★★★ ~ The Telegraph.

★★★★ ~ The Observer.

★★★★ ~ Radio Times.

★★★★ ~ NME.

Amazon Prime

CHANNEL 4 ~ HELP.

~ 2022 BAFTA Winner: Best Actress (Jodie Comer) + Best Supporting Actress (Cathy Tyson).

★★★★★ It is rare that a TV drama manages to be agonising and compelling; unbearable yet utterly immersive. Help is such a drama. ~ The Times.

★★★★ A care home worker and a patient with young onset Alzheimer’s form a bond – then Covid strikes. What a harrowing and important film this is. Jodie Comer and Stephen Graham will leave you breathless with rage. ~ The Guardian.

★★★★ Graham and Comer prove they're the King and Queen of Liverpudlian acting royalty in this Channel 4 drama which shines a light on an industry hit hard by the pandemic. ~ Radio Times.

★★★★ ~ The Independent.

★★★★ ~ The Telegraph.

Channel 4

CHANNEL 4 ~ NO OTHER LAND.

~ 2025 Oscar Winner: Best Documentary.

★★★★✭ Calling for a free Palestine, this vital doc chronicles the resilience of the Masafer Yatta community and the occupation’s atrocities in the West Bank. If you weren’t already radicalised… this is the film to watch. ~ Little White Lies.

★★★★ This award-winning stark, unflinching West Bank documentary about the brutal expulsion of Palestinian villagers by the Israeli army is essential viewing. ~ The Observer.

★★★★★ A stark account of destruction in the West Bank, this documentary made by Palestinians and Israelis shows rural homes razed and fragile cross-border kinship imperilled. ~ Financial Times.

★★★★★ A damning powerful film that offers a stark insider’s look at the conflict. Essential viewing. ~ The Guardian.

★★★★ Historical in scope yet intimate in its approach, this documentary from an Israeli/Palestinian film-making collective presents just a few years in the life of a beleaguered West Bank community. ~ Radio Times.

★★★★ This sobering and gripping documentary made by film-makers on both sides of the conflict finds moments of quiet optimism amid the violence. ~ The Times.

★★★★ ~ Time Out.

Channel 4

CHANNEL 4 ~ THE NORTHMAN

★★★★★ Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Björk and Anya Taylor-Joy feature in a mesmerisingly outrageous take on the Norse myth that inspired Hamlet. ~ The Guardian.

★★★★★ Robert Eggers directs a Viking epic of hard-bitten masculinity, about a time in history when ‘bros being bros’ meant fighting to the death at the foot of an erupting volcano. ~ The Independent.

★★★★★ The film's extreme violence, ambiguous moral stance and delve into supernatural folklore might alienate certain viewers, but this ranks alongside other great revenge epics such as Gladiator in terms of sheer excitement and spectacle. ~ Radio Times.

★★★★★ This is intimate, culturally rich storytelling on a brutally epic scale. A cinematic saga worthy of the ancestors.. ~ Empire.

★★★★★ ~ Sunday Irish Independent.

★★★★★ ~ Evening Standard.

★★★★★ ~ Little White Lies.

★★★★★ ~ The Times.

★★★★★ ~ Total Film.

★★★★★ ~ Time Out.

★★★★★ ~ NME.

★★★★ ~ Irish Independent.

★★★★ ~ Financial Times.

★★★★ ~ The Telegraph.

★★★★ ~ The i.

★★★★ ~ RTE.

★★★★ ~ BBC.

Channel 4

CHANNEL 4 ~ THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH

★★★★ This is easily the finest of director Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, with Vincent Price the very essence of evil as the sadistic devil-worshipper trying to keep the plague at bay in 12th-century Italy by indulging in degenerate revels. ~ Radio Times.

★★★★★ A horribly apt adaptation, Corman’s 1964 cult classic about a medieval pestilence closing in on a decadent count has uncomfortable resonance. ~ The Guardian.

★★★★ It's creepy Price in all his gnarled splendour. He twitches his moustache with elegant, weary cynicism as the diabolist whose misdeeds are always designed to teach a lesson and savours dialogue so ripe it’s on the point of rotting. ~ Empire.

★★★★ High camp meets high art in this cheeky flesh-fest that aspires to lofty ideals. ~ The Times.

In these days of lethal pandemic, The Masque of the Red Death comes with a particular resonance, but really there can be no time when this memento mori lacks its polychromatic punch. ~ Little White Lies.

Channel 4

BBC iPLAYER ~ CLOSE

~ 2023 Oscar Nominee: Best International Film.

★★★★★ An exceptional film of empathy and vision. ~ BBC.

★★★★★ A heartbreaking collision between childhood innocence and teenage angst. ~ Irish Independent.

★★★★★ A soul-scorching portrait of boyhood friendship and loss, this film from 31-year-old Lukas Dhont is an overwhelmingly sad and tender tale of childhood friendship severed. ~ The Telegraph.

★★★★★ The powerful Cannes Grand Prize Winner features terrific performances from youthful leads Eden Dambrine and Gustav De Waele, claustrophobic cinematography from Frank van den Eeden, weepie-worthy orchestrations from Valentin Hadjadj, and meaningful musings on how we hide behind small-talk, and internalise pain and gender norms. ~ Irish Times.

★★★★★ ~ Sunday Irish Independent.

★★★★ ~ Evening Standard.

★★★★ ~ Little White Lies.

★★★★ ~ Financial Times.

★★★★ ~ The Observer.

★★★★ ~ The Guardian.

★★★★ ~ Radio Times.

★★★★ ~ The Times.

★★★★ ~ Total Film.

★★★★ ~ Time Out.

★★★★ ~ Empire.