Rating: 4/5 -- This powerful volcanic landscape needs a complimentary style and Hakonarson brings one: long takes with little camera movement, almost a series of tableaux. It's similar to documentary but with a more poetic touch. Full Review

Rating: 4/5 -- Hákonarson maintains a tone as chilly as the Icelandic countryside, but still offers touches of dry, dark Nordic humor, and just when the film can't get any bleaker, it ends on a note of almost shocking tenderness. It's quite a ride for such a quiet ride. Full Review

Director Hákonarson has a documentary background, and he and cinematographer Sturla Brandth Grøvlen have shot RAMS in Búdardalur, in the north of Iceland, an area of remote and stunning landscapes that always engage the eye.

Rating: 3/5 -- Amid the grand themes about love of the land and kin are some wonderfully bizarre comic moments. One to savour. Full Review

Rating: 3/4 -- In its attentive and hushed way, the movie is about collision: between stubborn farmers and the government veterinary board, between ancient ways and modern times, between two old, hardheaded brothers. Full Review

4 star out of 5 -- Grímur Hákonarson draws on his documentary experience to combine with cinematographer Sturla Brandth Grøvlen in capturing the look and feel of a beleaguered community whose hardy souls have lost the will to battle the odds and the elements.

Rating: 4/5 -- Although shot through with humour, Rams is undeniably bleak. But don't let that put you off. It's captivating and one of the freshest films you will see all year. Full Review