All of Us Strangers (15)

★★★★★ "Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal are ace in a stunning fantasy romance. Told with economy, and evading any easy genre classification - it’s part romance, part fantasy, part thriller, and more besides - it’s a very moving piece of work, and a testament to the power of love." ~ Total Film.

In Andrew Haigh’s new film, one night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Andrew Scott) has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbour Harry (Paul Mescal), which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life.

As a relationship develops between them, Adam is preoccupied with memories of the past and finds himself drawn back to the suburban town where he grew up, and the childhood home where his parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell), appear to be living, just as they were on the day they died, 30 years before.

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★★★★★ Andrew Haigh’s mysterious, beautiful and sentimental film is a fantasy-supernatural romance about loneliness and love. ~ The Guardian.

★★★★★ Based on the 1987 novel Strangers by Japanese writer Taichi Yamada, this dreamy romantic drama from British writer/director Andrew Haigh (45 Years) blurs the lines between past and present, living and dead. ~ Radio Times.

★★★★★ A masterful love story of loneliness and healing. ~ Time Out.

★★★★★ Two of Ireland’s best-loved actors get down to some notably explicit coupling. ~ Irish Times.

★★★★★ Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott mesmerise as soulmates united in a ghostly love story about a man in despair who seeks and finds approval from his long-dead parents. ~ Irish Independent.

★★★★★ Mescal and Scott star alongside Claire Foy and Jamie Bell in Andrew Haigh's beautifully nuanced film about loss, love and hope. ~ BBC.

★★★★★ After an impressive body of work, Andrew Haigh levels up even further, with a flawless film that reaches for the stars, and gets there. It aches and shimmers. ~ Empire.

★★★★★ Adapted by Haigh from a Japanese ghost story, this unusual romance is aching, gorgeously shot and shimmering with sadness while Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal’s chemistry is off the charts. ~ Telegraph.

★★★★★ A supernova of a film; delicate and devastating in the same breath. ~ Little White Lies.

★★★★★ I can’t think of another film that moved me the way this one did. ~ Irish Sunday Independent.

★★★★★ Andrew Haigh’s utterly magnificent All of Us Strangers summons such depth of feeling — and by such subtle magic — that you may feel blindsided by it. Do not operate heavy machinery after watching. ~ Sunday Times.