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Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...the first feature film directed by the great actor, Paddy Considine... Peter Mullan's performance here is muscular and unrelenting." (Read the full review...) 723 words, 12/02/11
A.O. Scott, New York Times: MODERATE "...starts out with its grimness dial set at nine, and cranks it up from there.... The characters are trapped, suffocated, pushed through a story that gives them very little room or time to figure themselves out, and that finally turns their feelings into the wan stuff of fable." (Read the full review...) 488 words, 11/18/11 Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Peter Mullan and Olivia Colman give hard-as-nails, lived-in performances... isn't easy viewing, and surely isn't pretty, but director Paddy Considine's actors are remarkable." (Read the full review...) 178 words, 11/18/11 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "...the kind of film that leaves you limp, exhausted and feeling battered by the end. But its wrenching performances make the beating worth weathering." (Read the full review...) 843 words, 11/18/11 Kyle Smith, New York Post: WEAK (cg) "...[a] sorry British art-house exploitation picture... What is the message of this film, which features several gruesome beatings and a man urinating on a sleeping woman?" (Read the full review...) 170 words, 11/18/11 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: MODERATE (cg) "...hammers home the impoverished emotional lives of its characters.... The result is a picture that is baldly manipulative yet weirdly sentimental..." (Read the full review...) 364 words, 12/02/11 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...the first feature film directed by the great actor, Paddy Considine... Peter Mullan's performance here is muscular and unrelenting." (Read the full review...) 723 words, 12/02/11 Nicolas Rapold, Village Voice: EXCELLENT "...an elaboration of director Paddy Considine's prizewinning 2007 short, 'Dog Altogether,' consists of modulated quiet, tentative communion, ramshackle absurdity, and selective flashes of sadism.... Olivia Colman's performance comes as a revelation." (Read the full review...) 435 words, 03/23/11 Peter Howell, Toronto Star: VERY GOOD (cg) "...you won't find two finer performances in recent times than those by Peter Mullan and Olivia Colman, who in a perfect world would each have received Oscar nominations. Superb actors both, they search for humanity amidst the social ruins." (Read the full review...) 395 words, 01/27/12 Rick Groen, Toronto Globe & Mail: VERY GOOD (cg) "...steeped in the tradition of kitchen-sink realism, the Brits do grim quite well.... this version takes the form of an unlikely love story, where two very different souls share common ground over the only emotions they can feel: that linked tandem of fear and anger." (Read the full review...) 696 words, 01/27/12 Melissa Anderson, LA Weekly: WEAK "British miserablism at its most numbingly brutal and blunt.... a relentless, near-gratuitous wallow in other people's pain.... At best, an actor's showcase..." (Read the full review...) 207 words, 11/17/11 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "You can't deny the intensity or the impact of individual scenes, and the actors hold nothing back, but there's a sense, as one awful event piles atop the last, that the filmmaker is trying to outdo Leigh and Loach for cinematic suffering. And that gets wearying." (Read the full review...) 122 words, 01/26/12
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: VERY GOOD (cg) "No walk in the park... a character study steeped in the British (and Irish) tradition of social realism, and the experience of watching this skillfully made film is, well, exhausting." (Read the full review...) 257 words, 10/28/11 Ty Burr, Boston Globe: VERY GOOD (cg) "...cruelly frank about the ways damage cascades down to the powerless, but while it's not for the fainthearted (or for animal lovers), rewards are there." (Read the full review...) 510 words, 03/02/12 Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star-Ledger: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "There is something unusual in this story of a brutal man, gentled by the sight of someone else's brutality. The actors are superb, and stylistically, Considine's direction is both controlled and inventive... If only Considine was not so intent on trying to shock us." (Read the full review...) 538 words, 11/18/11 Walter Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: VERY GOOD (cg) "...well made and a very strong dose." (Read the full review...) 153 words, 11/18/11 John Hartl, Seattle Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "...swept the British Independent Film Awards, including best picture, actress and debut director." (Read the full review...) 295 words, 12/09/11
Nicolas Rapold, Village Voice: EXCELLENT "...an elaboration of director Paddy Considine's prizewinning 2007 short, 'Dog Altogether,' consists of modulated quiet, tentative communion, ramshackle absurdity, and selective flashes of sadism.... Olivia Colman's performance comes as a revelation." (Read the full review...) 435 words, 03/23/11 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: VERY GOOD (cg) "It sounds like an exercise in miserabilism, but Considine extracts black comedy, compassion, and dignity from his downtrodden characters and their blighted setting." (Read the full review...) 158 words, 02/23/12 Melissa Anderson, LA Weekly: WEAK "British miserablism at its most numbingly brutal and blunt.... a relentless, near-gratuitous wallow in other people's pain.... At best, an actor's showcase..." (Read the full review...) 207 words, 11/17/11 Keith Phipps, AV Club: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Paddy Considine directs with the confidence of a veteran, giving his actors room to work while letting an ominous, overcast mood hang over almost every scene." (Read the full review...) 559 words, 11/17/11 Simon Abrams, Slant: MODERATE (cg) "Director Paddy Considine goes to such great lengths to sensationalize his unlovable protagonist's myriad acts of violence that it's almost impossible to take him seriously. But only almost." (Read the full review...) 668 words, 03/25/11 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "You can't deny the intensity or the impact of individual scenes, and the actors hold nothing back, but there's a sense, as one awful event piles atop the last, that the filmmaker is trying to outdo Leigh and Loach for cinematic suffering. And that gets wearying." (Read the full review...) 122 words, 01/26/12 MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "My quibble with the film isn't that it's harrowing or difficult to watch -- films about violent men should be harrowing and difficult... but that Considine is somewhat less generous toward the other side of his narrative equation.... Why the film chooses to dump additional cruelty atop a woman who is at the mercy of such men is a mystery." (Read the full review...) 314 words, 10/07/11
A.O. Scott, New York Times: MODERATE "...starts out with its grimness dial set at nine, and cranks it up from there.... The characters are trapped, suffocated, pushed through a story that gives them very little room or time to figure themselves out, and that finally turns their feelings into the wan stuff of fable." (Read the full review...) 488 words, 11/18/11 Jeannette Catsoulis, NPR: VERY GOOD "At its tortured heart, 'Tyrannosaur' is a love story disguised as blunt instrument.... this bruising slice of urban life rewards our patience. Hope flickers feebly, but it's there..." (Read the full review...) 516 words, 11/17/11 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "...the kind of film that leaves you limp, exhausted and feeling battered by the end. But its wrenching performances make the beating worth weathering." (Read the full review...) 843 words, 11/18/11
Charles Gant, Daily Variety: VERY GOOD "...lonely, rage-filled widower Joseph (Peter Mullan) seeks refuge from his pain in the charity thrift store managed by Christian do-gooder Hannah (Olivia Colman). Character, dialogue, storyline and production values exude grit..." (Read the full review...) 718 words, 01/21/11 David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter: OUTSTANDING "Propelled by performances full of scalding anger and pain... a shattering drama about surviving violence, even when it comes from within.... an intense exploration of the corrosive effects of human violence. And its eventual glimmer of redemption is entirely earned, not artificial or consoling." (Read the full review...) 936 words, 01/28/11 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "...the kind of film that leaves you limp, exhausted and feeling battered by the end. But its wrenching performances make the beating worth weathering." (Read the full review...) 843 words, 11/18/11 Patrick Z. McGavin, Cinema 24/7: VERY GOOD (cg) "A searing meditation on the nature of good and evil.... a good film about furious and unsettling people trying to make good in a world without much light. It is easier to appreciate than enjoy, but the power and force of the actors carry the moment." (Read the full review...) 968 words, 02/06/11 A.O. Scott, New York Times: MODERATE "...starts out with its grimness dial set at nine, and cranks it up from there.... The characters are trapped, suffocated, pushed through a story that gives them very little room or time to figure themselves out, and that finally turns their feelings into the wan stuff of fable." (Read the full review...) 488 words, 11/18/11
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