Critic Reviews

• Dave Calhoun, Time Out

  As a study in grief, it's too distracting to make an impact.

• Amber Wilkinson, Eye for Film

  Limp and limping, even the short 76-minute runtime feels like a chore.

• Tim Robey, Daily Telegraph

  The general dead air and creepy ending make it hard to see who, beyond members of the Winstone/Howman clans, might be interested.

• , Daily Express

  Ray Winstone is a fine actor but even he cannot inject much life into the maudlin drama Fathers Of Girls.

• Peter Bradshaw, Guardian [UK]

  It seems like a very personal project for both Winstone and Howman, filled with interesting but unfinished and undeveloped dramatic ideas.

• Alex Zane, Sun Online

  Howman and his co-director/writer Ethem Cetintas are so concerned with keeping the plot mellow that they have robbed their story of any drama.

• David Parkinson, Radio Times

  Whether muttering threats and tips about tea-making under his breath or stalking Howman, Winstone looks decidedly uncomfortable.

• Philip Wilding, Empire Magazine

  Too meandering to stir the brain and too dour to engage the heart, the moving storyline too often falls flat in stodgy scenes.

• Neil Smith, Total Film

  [A] dreary pot-boiler...

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