If you ever find yourself hoisted on the petard of your own overthinking, then this is the rom-com for you.

| Sep 9, 2021

Simon Amstell's first feature is a heartwarming, brutal self-portrait...

| Sep 3, 2021

The writing is smart, self-aware and subtle, but for a comedian whose output has been so ballsy and sassy in the past, this semi-autobiographical nuance is a whole new angle for the man behind Pop Justice and Never Mind The Buzzcocks.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 1, 2021

These characters are so annoyingly hapless, you expect them to curl up on the floor and suck their thumbs at any moment.

| Aug 28, 2020

Morgan is charmingly flustered in an early-Hugh Grant way, and Amstell has a knack for biting one-liners about the fundamental emptiness of human existence.

| Original Score: B | Aug 18, 2020

Helped by Colin Morgan's enjoyably sad central turn, this is a British comedy that knows when to bark and when to bite.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 15, 2020

The script crackles with endlessly sharp throwaway lines, astute observations of the underground "art scene," and sweet, well-executed montages.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 24, 2020

From this delicate premise, "Benjamin" wrings a lot of warmly perceptive, occasionally acidic humor.

| Jul 21, 2020

Through all its Shoreditch hipster pretension there is a fine balancing act of witty inelegance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 13, 2020

Infused with his trademark wit, the film is hilarious at times but also carries with it more complex undertones. Benjamin is a gorgeous little film.

| Oct 2, 2019

The film occasionally feels more like Amstell's personal exercise in exploring his own emotions and neuroses than a satisfying story, but there's enough warmth and wan smiles to make Benjamin a touching tale of love, learning and creativity.

| Aug 11, 2019

A hilariously awkward tale of looking for love in the wrong places. Amstell is skilled at teasing out the comedy to be found in emotion, while reining in that found in the media world. They're weird, but they're real.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 7, 2019

A warm and joyfully understated metropolitan romance.

| Aug 7, 2019

There is more to this film than a portrait of a navel-gazing, painfully awkward and tortured artist but sadly not quite enough..

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 5, 2019

Alternately charming and cringe-inducing...Nevertheless, it is easy to root for Benjamin and his friends, even if they are their own worst enemies.

| Jun 14, 2019

If this all seems a bit meta, Benjamin is grounded by its very sweet love story.

| Mar 21, 2019

The film is revealing, personal and bittersweet. It unerringly nails a certain kind of contemporary arty milieu.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 20, 2019

Under the satire, there's an authentic sense of emotional uncertainty.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 20, 2019

Colin Morgan is terrific as Benjamin, a struggling film-maker who finds stop-start solace with a French music student. But it's repetitive and eventually runs out of steam.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 18, 2019

Even if you don't think the dithering, anxious Benjamin should just get a grip, you might wish Amstell had asserted himself more as a dramatist.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 18, 2019