★★★★
"It's a deadpan tragicomedy that mixes the playful and the poignant in a manner as tasty as a spitter - the bittersweet apples treasured by cidermakers as the perfect fuel for fermentation."
- Mark Kermode, The Observer

★★★★
"Apples suggests, with great pertinence, that pandemics create new normals and nothing is set in stone. That said, Nikou's career seems like something we can bank on."
- Charlotte O'Sullivan, London Evening Standard