There are so many acute insights, striking images and impressive performances in it, not least from lead Maisie Williams, it's a tragic shame that elsewhere inexperience shows and the last 15 minutes devolve into a morass of melodramatic incident.

| Dec 15, 2015

The film all leads to a melodramatic climax that wraps up the main character's explosive acting out in a too-neat package.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 23, 2015

Even when the narrative plays its melodramatic hand, and closure is dragged half-drowned from the waters of ambiguity, the ripples of unresolved tension remain unstilled.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 26, 2015

There's an underlying unruliness that feels rather more robust than the maidenhood explored in, say, Hanging Rock.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 25, 2015

All hail an uncanny British thriller.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 24, 2015

Carol Morley follows up the mesmerising Dreams of a Life with a tedious period drama set in an all-girls school.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 23, 2015

Carol Morley's potently suggestive follow-up to 2011's Dreams of a Life ...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 23, 2015

One of the strengths of the film is its accurate and barbed portrayal of changing British social attitudes.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 23, 2015

Atmospheric, insightful and darkly funny.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 23, 2015

Sensuous coming-of-age drama that feels like a distant British cousin of Picnic At Hanging Rock.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 20, 2015

Carol Morley shows startling versatility and ambition with this jawdropping mash-up of 'If' and 'Picnic at Hanging Rock'.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 20, 2015

An imperfect but alluring study of psychological contagion that marks an auspicious advance in the field of narrative filmmaking for acclaimed docmaker Carol Morley.

| Oct 17, 2014

This is terrific film-making - enough to bring a rush of blood to the head.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 10, 2014