“A director of eye-popping visual style and deeply emotive film making” - Variety 

“Young Johnny Allan, directed with such style and perfect pacing – here languid, there threatening, here dappled, there red-blood pounding – as to astound.” - The Observer

“Elevates everything his brush touches… A director already already starting to show early signs of greatness” - Little White Lies

“a dark rising star of Scottish cinema” - Nylon