Critic Reviews

• Tom Huddlestone, Time Out

  Most disastrous is the script, which carries about as much dramatic weight as an episode of 'Heartbeat'.

• Edward Porter, Sunday Times (UK)

  A patchy film.

• Jason Solomons, Observer [UK]

  It isn't brave enough to show anyone actually being gay and having sex, but gathers its preening cast around a dinner table to bitch at one another.

• Nicholas Barber, Independent on Sunday

  It means well, but it's one of those shoddy, very-low-budget British films that don't merit even a tiny release.

• Robert Hanks, Independent

  Despite efforts towards the end to import a little serious sentiment, much of the time it feels as though Mr Right is setting out deliberately to confirm every nasty stereotype about gay men.

• Charlotte O'Sullivan, This is London

  This interminable, Soho-based gay relationship drama is especially marred by the dire acting of Luke de Woolfson, who plays a bad actor.

• Kevin Maher, Times [UK]

  Mr Right must surely be the first gay movie that manages, by virtue of its overwhelming ineptitude, to be curiously homophobic.

• Peter Bradshaw, Guardian [UK]

  A perkily performed Soho soap that somehow also manages to be mesmerically depressing.

• Tim Robey, Daily Telegraph

  Wants to be a Sex and the City for the Soho queen scene, only without the sex.

• Allan Hunter, Daily Express

  The mix of sentimental melodrama and comedy of manners might lack a little edge at times but the film remains likeable and more enjoyable than many low-budget British ventures.

• Nigel Andrews, Financial Times

  Agay romantic comedy that earns 10 points for PC outreach work and one for wit.

• Matthew Turner, ViewLondon

  There's a halfway decent film buried somewhere within Mr Right but it never quite emerges.

• Rich Cline, Shadows on the Wall

  A shallow, superficial film about shallow, superficial people. It's nicely shot and features some strong performances, but as it tries to be both racy and moralistic, it won't satisfy many audiences.

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