Cuckoo (2008)

Critic Reviews

• Henry Fitzherbert, Daily Express

  It's poorly plotted, deeply uninvolving tosh that makes you cringe for Grant and the estimable Tamsin Greig as his colleague and former protégé.

• Andrew Lowry, Total Film

  A centrepiece monologue from Grant on CIA experimentation shows some style, but it's too little, too late, and is rendered moot by the underwhelming climax.

• David Edwards, Daily Mirror [UK]

  An unsettling, unconventional and delicately-handled piece quite unlike anything our film industry is pumping out these days.

• Tim Robey, Daily Telegraph

  An alarming head-scratcher, but hopefully a blip for this still-promising creative team.

• Cath Clarke, Guardian [UK]

  Creepy claustrophobic for a bit, it dissolves quickly into suspenseless drift - not all of it coherent.

• Zara Miller, Little White Lies

  A funny film, but not in a ha ha way.

• Alan Jones, Radio Times

  Bracewell's lofty ambitions are clear to see in what is an obvious labour of love, but they simply don't come off in a mess of clichés and barely adequate performances.

• David Jenkins, Time Out

  [A] workaday psychological thriller which, although decently crafted, lacks even a scintilla of subtlety or ambition.

• Philip Wilding, Empire Magazine

  With its unengaging characters and a plot that jacknifes inexplicably, there's little to like here. A thriller without many thrills.

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