Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter.  Family and friendship. Love and warmth.  Joy and sadness.  Hope and despair. Companionship.  Loneliness.  A birth.  A death. Time passes…

**** The Independent

"Beautiful, elegiac study of family and friendship"

Jason Solomons The Observer

"Leigh is the master of making the ordinary extraordinary "

Mark Adams Screen Daily

**** Time Out

"Leigh at his confident best" "Manville rewards us with some of the films most poignant moments"

Wendy Ide The Times

***** David Gritten Daily Telegraph

"Best screen performance of the year so far" (for Lesley Manville)

Baz Bamigboye Daily Mail

***** Kim Newman Empire