question: A thought-provoking, insightful look into Iranian youth culture.

numbered reviews: 1. Maryam Keshavarz's debut feature contains echoes of The Lives of Others and My Son, the Fanatic, but it stands on its own in its portrayal of everyday people trying to make the best of their circumstances in a restrictive society.
2. Keshavarz's solid, unfussy craftsmanship lets the story come to the fore, making intriguing if rarely thrilling results
3. An engrossing Iranian film about the familial clash of values of a sister seeking freedom and pleasure and a brother who is zealot for Islamic fundamentalism.
4. Stunning debut lifts the veil on life in Iran.
5. With much of the content already distant culturally, the lack of clarity in dialogue and staging causes all subtlety to be lost in translation.
6. Absorbing if too earnest chronicle of youth rebellion against the rigid and repressive social order of contemporary Iran.
7. A weighty topic receives lush but eventually contrived treatment in Circumstance.
8. When writer-director Maryam Keshavarz moves things out of the bedroom and stops self-consciously flirting with controversy, the film is provocative for all the right reasons.
9. Themes of sexual liberation, religious oppression, rebellion to authority and free- thinking permeate the fabric of the film and "Circumstance" is for any mature teenager.
10. It begins well, but goes nowhere.


question: Wryly charming, impeccably acted, and ultimately quite bittersweet, Enough Said is a grown-up movie in the best possible way.

numbered reviews: 1. Slow-burning adult drama full of chuckles derived from well-written characters and top-notch acting...
2. raises some serious issues of relationships
3. The strong point of the film is the writing by Nicole Holofcener ("Friends With Money"), who also directs this film. The dialog is smart and witty, with loads of funny one-liners and funny situations.
4. These are the subjects that Holofcener does exceptionally well -- the myopia, vanity and insecurities of the moderately privileged.
5. A rom-com that's actually, miraculously both romantic and comedic.
6. James Gandolfini will be missed. He could play a brute, as in 'Killing Them Softly,' or, as he does here in 'Enough Said,' a lovable, albeit flawed, regular guy. Either way, you cared about the characters into whom the late Gandolfini breathed life.
7. No matter how he looks in the film, Gandolfini's Albert is so unbelievably sweet and sincere and nice that it's impossible not to be charmed by him, and to wonder what might have been.
8. ...a perceptively funny romantic comedy about the responsibility that comes with loving another.
9. It's been about fifteen years since Julia Louis-Dreyfus last graced the big screen; an absence I hadn't even realised. That's on me. Having now witnessed her comeback effort, Enough Said, it's an absence I pray we never have to endure again.
10. Enough Said is [director Nicole Holofcener's] best, most abrasive, yet touching film thus far. It's a knowing deep-dive into impulses that are stupid, fragile, selfish and deluded as two people try forming post-relationship relationships.


question: Not much of a story, but the execution is interesting.

numbered reviews: 1. The film is nothing short of mesmerizing to watch.
2. Time Code is a bracing antidote to the stunted summer blockbusters set to invade like so many megaplex mosquitoes.
3. Figgis has devised a genuinely novel way to shoot and experience a feature-length film.
4. Despite its quirks, Time Code is actually mostly enjoyable.
5. Time Code is kind of like the recipe for a mixed drink: one part interesting, one part daring, one partwhy-am-I-watching-this-drivel?
6. Whatever its dramatic deficiencies ... Time Code is mesmerizing for its daring use of the new technology.
7. Audacious and groundbreaking.
8. Brilliant. Mike Figgis has shown us the future of digital technology. It shall be glorious.
9. There's not one single cut in Time Code, which gives it the meandering feel of real life. This is both the film's strength and its weakness.
10. Truth be told, this movie's worth exists solely in its imaginative technique. Filmed conventionally, Time Code would be a waste of time. Filmed the way it is, Time Code is a fascinating exercise in new technology.


question: This taut and snappy French prison break thriller may be suspiciously implausible, but is held together by two fine central performances.

numbered reviews:
1. Anything For Her is a superbly directed, thoroughly gripping suspense thriller that packs a powerful emotional punch.
2. The last half-hour is fraught with near-unbearable tension, as the writer-director Fred Cavaye runs the escape plot alongside the concerted efforts of les flics to foil it.
3. It never succeeds in suspending our disbelief long enough to buy into its preposterous premise.
4. A brilliant French thriller that doesn't need to be changed in any way.
5. It proves to be a heady mix of romance and action ... something for both him and her.
6. French thriller Anything for Her has a livelier way with predictability.
7. Anything For Her proves a competent candyfloss film, but with a suspicious aftertaste of Brussels sprout.
8. A striking thriller with a strong central performance from Gallic Robert Powell-alike Lindon.
9. Methodically detailing every stage of his daring plan, director Fred Cavayé serves up a taut tale that tantalisingly leaves the question of his incarcerated heroine's innocence dangling.
10. Prepare to gnaw you knuckles to the bone with this nerve-shredding French thriller that poses the question: How far would you go for a loved one?