Tornado (2025)

"Brilliantly captures the brutality and hardship of 18th-century Britain in a bleak but blistering coming-of-age tale."

"A harrowing, blustery, violent amalgamation of an idiosyncratic spirit."

"Thinly drawn characters who don’t look strong enough to carry an entire movie."

"In the title role, the singer-songwriter Koki is both charming and indomitable."

"At its most bracing when it blows like a chill moorland wind, low and constant."

"Visually, Tornado grips hard, and its climactic confrontations deliver adrenaline in spades."

"A heady concoction, but it’s more conducive to reflection than engagement."

"Unfortunately the idiosyncratic touches have usurped rather than bolstered what should be robust, time-honoured noir framework."

"It’s a puzzle of a film in many ways, but it shows that Maclean has his own film-making language."

"Despite considerable thrills throughout, Maclean’s writing makes it seem as though his characters never actually existed in their world before the film started."