“This is the finest work of writer-director Martin McDonagh’s career. He’s a filmmaker who has never shied away from using shock as a dramatic tactic, and there are shocking moments in this film too, which I won’t spoil here, except to say that they are earned, lived-in and motivated by character. ”

“This is a tremendously psychologically acute directorial debut from Georgia Oakley, with a fantastically layered and complex performance from McEwen, who is able to convey oceans of repressed feeling through the subtlest surface ripples.”

“While the trajectory of Ali and Rachel’s romantic relationship is also a crucial part of the film and possibly gets the larger share of the screen time, the freshness of the film’s emotional impact stems more from the touching and beautifully drawn story of Leila and Rachel.”

“There’s a piquant pleasure in all of this being tackled from within something which — rather like its protagonists — is disguised as a dreamy teen romance, but which conceals something more monstrous, braiding flashes of nightmarish violence into a rather lovely and elemental expression of the desire to lose yourself.”

“At the risk of making wild, unfair cultural generalisations, there is great comedy to be mined from juxtaposing traditional Italian priorities with hardcore punk. Margini follows the fortunes of a small but spirited punk band living in Grosseto, a functional town in Tuscany which is more or less the opposite of all things punk.”

“As a compelling postmodern bricolage of ideas, delivered on a grand scale, it may not always hit, but most of us should be so lucky to create misses this intriguing.”