Junkhearts (2011)

Critic Reviews

• Alistair Harkness, Scotsman

  There's a point at which good performances stop being enough to excuse dreary storytelling, shoddy execution and a general lack of ideas, and ... Junkhearts reaches it fairly early on.

• Lisa Giles-Keddie, Real.com

  Aptly named as the characters purge their tickers in their quest for redemption. Expect another bleak tale of inner-city hardship and self pity ...

• Derek Malcolm, This is London

  More sincere than sophisticated.

• Peter Bradshaw, Guardian [UK]

  This is a tough film, and it isn't perfect: it works best when Marsan is on the screen, and we are inside his agonised day-to-day reality.

• Matt Glasby, Total Film

  It's an impressive two-hander about sensitive souls facing stark realities - the lovers who life forces to become fighters.

• Lee Griffiths, Little White Lies

  A gritty, self-assured directorial debut.

• Damon Wise, Empire Magazine

  Strong cast, disappointing characters and a plot that's as thin as discount plonk.

• Anton Bitel, Eye for Film

  It is a striking audiovisual style which rescues this production from many of the more hackneyed tropes of British social realism and urban grit.

• Rich Cline, Shadows on the Wall

  Riveting performances hold our attention even when this dark drama starts wallowing in the messy lives of its central characters.

Read all 9 critic reviews