This unashamedly accessible thriller has potent things to say about denial, and a kind of wilfulness that’s often mistaken for optimism.

A portrait of New York eccentricity and family that’s like a low rent teenage cousin of Grey Gardens...

A significant work and a moving portrayal of these lives.

While Diablo Cody’s carefully thought out script is engaging, it’s Demme’s instinctive filmmaking that makes the movie so enjoyable.

Celine Sciamma has commendable empathy as a filmmaker, and the way she brings these girls into focus, pulling them beyond simple archetypes marked by poverty and marginalisation, is a great achievement.

Writer director Prashant Nair – the son of an Indian diplomat whose itinerant upbringing inspired the movie – manages the melodrama with credible, naturalistic performances.

An affable action movie but it reaches no heights

University of Kansas film scholar Tamara Falicov, author of The Cinematic Tango: Contemporary Argentine Film, discusses the resurgence of a Latin American cinematic powerhouse.

It doesn’t quite work because behind the scenes there’s an awkward pairing of two very different creative sensibilities.

The scenery is stunning and Caton’s performance is as sophisticated and powerful as anything he’s ever done, but there’s something very tired about the humour and contrivances.