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Many will probably label this film as a shallow and formulaic drama, whatever. I happen to be thrilled that I needed a tissue for a stream of tears after a very long time. The music and cinematography certainly deserve praise, as does the director himself, given that this is his first feature film. Making a film based on a true story is always a challenge, a director should respect the story but at the same time he or she is making a film for the audience, it's not an easy task and I think Davis did it well. But I don't really understand the Oscar nominations this year, I'm not saying Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman were bad, but little Sunny Pawar crushed them both. Sunny is a small wonder and discovery for me, and I rank him right up there with Onata Aprile (What Maisie Knew) and Jacob Tremblay (Room) in terms of child actor talent; these three moved me more than their adult colleagues. The first half of the film tore my heart out, you realise what a different world you live in, and most importantly I was thinking the whole time: bloody hell, couldn’t you just stay on that bench?

It lacked something for a higher rating, and it's not a film I would need to return to, but otherwise this comedy fulfilled its purpose – I had a good time and even shed a tear while laughing. Yeah James Franco, so yeah bawdy and vulgar humour, but once in a while why not. The performances of Franco and Cranston, in particular, some of their facial expressions were hilarious.

Don't expect more from this film than a few nice visual effects, a couple of imaginative fight scenes, and a funny "Oberyn" – Pedro Pascal. In this day and age of advanced film visual technology and graphics, it bothers me when the effects are too computerized and cheap; after all, things can be better. And those dialogues? My god! And what the hell are Matt Damon and Willem Dafoe doing there? I laughed quite a bit at this film, which is definitely not a compliment...

The first time I saw this film was on a mini travel player (about 16cm diagonal), where it’s impossible to enjoy the amazing visuals, and yet I'll never forget how engrossed I was by the incredibly mysterious, dark and chilling atmosphere. The music itself is a masterpiece that deserves appreciation and deep compliments. Years later I went back and saw the film on a big screen, I would raise the rating if I could. Just the opening shift from black and white to colour, the chandelier and theatre coming to life, accompanied by the famous phantom theme song, will make your body hair stand on end. The sets and costumes are impressive, breathtaking even. The ubiquitous colour palette of the film is telling, and even the sometimes kitschy colours work here – the depiction of good and evil – the fight scene between Raoul (white horse, white shirt) and the Phantom (black horse, black cloak). I can't fault the cast at all: Emmy Rossum is a beautiful, gifted, tender, innocent Christine Daée torn between Patrick Wilson, Raoul (a similarly innocent young man who offers tender, pure love) and Gerard Butler (a dark, sexy, obsessed phantom who offers passionate love and a life of darkness with the purpose of making beautiful music). For me, Joel Schumacher has made a perfect film in every way, one that I will always love to come back to.

“They don’t make films like this anymore” – for once, I have to agree with the trailer, I really wasn’t expecting an experience like this. The opening scene put a smile on my face and it didn't let go until the closing credits, it even stuck with me until I got home. On top of that, I kept humming that beautiful piano melody, and I wanted to dance. For the first time in a long time, I encountered a joke that was neither forced nor cheap. This is what a musical should look like: impressive sets, masterful cinematography, music, and songs that are melodic, haunting, catchy, not like Les Misérables, where 95 percent of the songs lack melody and are forgettable. Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling just belong together on screen, just like Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas once did, so I hope we'll see them together again. The whole time I waited for the disappointment to come, for me to think “this could have been a great film, but they really messed it up”. But to my surprise, nothing like that happened. An experience as it should be, a perfect treat for the soul.

In my experience, Michael Shannon is usually a guarantee of quality, but not quite this time. I haven't come across such naive, illogical and unlikely characters in a film for a long time. Yes, human psychology is complex and often illogical, but usually I can empathise with the characters and understand them, but here I didn't quite succeed.

As a layperson who can’t compare it with the game, I can only praise this film. Right from the first shots the cinematography and the stunning production design are eye-popping. The music is the only thing I know from the game, and I can also positively evaluate it: it is close in spirit to the text and nice to listen to. I liked it so much, that I put on the soundtrack the moment I got home. The performances are good, too, just what you’d expect from Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard. The action and fight scenes are also brilliantly shot. After a long time I can say that I had high expectations for a film and I was not disappointed.

I’m not a fan of horror films, I watch most of them through my fingers, with the volume very low and all the lights on. I’m such a wuss :) This film doesn’t have guts or similar disgusting stuff, nor does it have an excessive amount of scares, but the horror touch is created by a mysterious, dark atmosphere. And that ending... WOW! It blew my mind and I think it’s one of the best movie ending ever. One of the few horror films I would recommend.

It is the story of a dancer whose at the time innovative performance hid hours of hard work, blood, sweat and tears. Unlike her frenemy, she was neither beautiful nor graceful, but there were queues for her performances in France. The story itself is nothing extraordinary, but it deserves an extra star thanks to the beautiful cinematography and the dance scenes, which give me goosebumps all over again when I think of them. I haven’t seen something so beautiful on the screen for a long time. The moment she first started dancing I didn't even breathe and wished she would dance for the rest of the film. My only complain about the dance scenes is that they were too short. As the first feature film by director Stéphanie Di Giusto, very nice work (especially visually).

For me, tension until the last moment. Maybe the main character is just a bit too calm for my taste – I think I would probably have a panic attack and cry, and probably an asthma attack, too :) One could wish for a little more action, some shots of the hotel during the attack, but without that the film is much more realistic. We see everything through the eyes of the female protagonist, as it would be in reality – without the omnipresent and omniscient camera. This is how we find ourselves locked in a room and all we hear are explosions, gunfire, screaming, crying, hopelessness; not knowing exactly what is happening, where they are, if and when they will come. The authentic footage at the end only enhances the experience and makes you wish that for once a film was just fiction.