Spit-soaked and admirably weird though it is, Hoard just doesn’t quite build to saying anything about its own grossness.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 17, 2024

Stylish, unusual, and challenging.

| Sep 17, 2024

“Hoard” is never a drag. The insolence of the filmmaking and the artlessness of the leads energize a plot of stunning recklessness and unexpected humor.

| Sep 5, 2024

Luna Carmoon is such a unique, strong filmmaker and Hoard feels like it is just a small peek into the kinds of stories she is capable of sharing with us – all, no doubt, just as special, just as singular, and just as magical.

| Aug 29, 2024

There is real beauty amid all the rubbish, and the dirt, and the saliva...

| May 30, 2024

Director Luna Carmoon draws from her own experiences of growing up in 1980s London, to tell this captivating account about overcoming loss and childhood trauma.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 17, 2024

Chaotic as it is, Hoard’s acrid punk perversity is quite some opening statement.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 16, 2024

The film is astonishingly vivid, involving and affecting. This is fully realised, highly original cinema of a kind rarely seen from contemporary British film-makers (Charlotte Wells’s Aftersun excepted).

| May 15, 2024

Proudly strange and provocative, but a major debut all the same.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 14, 2024

Carmoon is very much her own film-maker — and in Lightfoot Leon she has found a leading lady with animalistic, inhibited presence.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 14, 2024

Luna Carmoon's grimy study of loss might ultimately be too strange for its own good. Nevertheless, this debut boldly announces the arrival of one of Britain's most promising new filmmakers.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 14, 2024

Carmoon may nod to the ideas of a trauma response, but she is not interested in neat pathologising, for this is a film camped out in the mystery of what really turns us on.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 21, 2023

Hoard isn’t perfect but its pure vehemence and the commitment of its performances are arresting.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 2, 2023

The sometimes-rapid shifts in tone, even within the same scene, are aided to tremendous effect by the magnetic, fearless performance from Saura Lightfoot Leon.

| Original Score: B | Sep 2, 2023

This is unfiltered filmmaking that indulges every storytelling whim, however uncomfortable it might turn out to be.

| Sep 2, 2023

Two parts supernova to one part Vauxhall Nova: a strange and celestially pulled coming-of-age drama that plays out on enjoyably rattly retro turf.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 2, 2023