Grant Shade

… a very accomplished piece of work that looks and sounds great on the big screen.

… a top-notch humanistic drama.

It’s not perfect, it could be tighter and there’s an overriding sense of the ridiculous, but it’s one of those films that grows on you.

... a strong, confident attack on small-minded bigotry, packaged in Dr. Moreau wrapping paper.

… balances the sport sequences and the social justice elements well – not a typical football doco and yet not a polemic as such.

A taut Roman police thriller … a brutal film

… a fine document of a place and time in flux.

The pacing is a bit on the glacial side, but much of the writing is pitch perfect.

The FilmInk team's personal top five films of the year.

… a serviceable near-thriller …