John Patterson

"[It] captured the campus experience in a way no UK film has ever managed"  

"The unfinished Spanish drama that’s perfect the way it is. Victor Erice’s 1983 gem remains a haunting tale of family secrets and postwar loss, even if problems behind the camera left much of its story unfilmed.  

"An audience necessitates a performance, and what performances we get."  

"Enormous orchestration, endless cellphone failure and a sinister pregnant hottie and you’ve the mother of all trash movie satires. (...) Rating: **** (outy of five)"  

"[It] pulls off two tricks that alone warrant 82 crisply compelling minutes of your time: it makes conspiracy theories fun again (...) and it finds new life in the increasingly threadbare found-footage genre."  

"A cinematic masterpiece (...) I've seen it perhaps 30 times – it may be my favourite American movie"  

"Tightly schematised and coherent (...) An astonishingly assured piece of film-making"  

"[Peckinpah] revolutionised film editing, shooting his many, violent action set-pieces with multiple cameras and viewpoints, running the cameras at different speeds (...) The results were eye-opening"  

"A delightful and transporting 102 minutes"  

"A comic masterpiece that's also deeply serious and perceptive about the mad military mindset of those times, 'Dr Strangelove's genius endures"  

"One of the most brutal and inventively eye-popping thrillers of the 60s"  

"One of the great movies about childhood innocence accidentally violated by adults...Reed, an often inconsistent filmmaker, handles the brutal mechanics of the plot superbly"

"'Blessed' with the fresh eyes of newly landed Englishman Yates (and genius cameraman William Fraker), the movie makes San Francisco fresh and alive"  

"Mutates halfway through into a ham-fisted action movie that squanders the good will, and insults the intelligence, of its audience."

"It's dirty and delightful, if a tad on the slight side."

"The result is the niftiest Bond movie in years -- fresh, funny, and jammed to the rafters with demented stunts, Boys'-Own gadgetry and brazen promiscuity."

Breathtaking stuff that freezes the toes, harrows the soul and turns the viewer's seat into a foot-wide ledge over a yawning chasm

"Director Jordan Brady achieves the remarkable feat of squandering a topnotch foursome of actors -- particularly Theron, a very game and able comedienne -- by shoving them into every clichéd white-trash situation imaginable"

"At 82 minutes it feels longer than 'Lawrence of Arabia' -- and a lot less funny."

"The movie belongs quite rightly to Wendy, the most enchanting little girl in English fiction, and to the untrained actress, Rachel Hurd-Wood, who plays her."