Critic Reviews

• Cath Clarke, Time Out

  A dime-a-dozen, not entirely terrible London thriller.

• Jeremy Heilman, MovieMartyr.com

  It's a shame that so much talent and energy is placed in the service of a story that feels like it has been told far too many times before.

• Philip French, Observer [UK]

  Capable but monotonous, it ends with a predictable twist that has a distinguished literary lineage.

• Lisa Giles-Keddie, Real.com

  The general topic is too titillating in execution to fully influence any worthy debate into the effects of isolating grief...

• Jason Best, Movie Talk

  From the clunky dialogue and dreary voice-over narration, it sounds as though director Kieron Hawkes has swallowed a GCSE psychology textbook and regurgitated gobbets of half-digested psychobabble all over the screenplay.

• Henry Barnes, Guardian [UK]

  It's a British rite-of-passage crime thriller, because it opens with a closeup of the protagonist's face and a voiceover that says "That's me".

• Amon Warmann, Little White Lies

  Too dull, too often.

• Jonathan Crocker, Total Film

  Fluidly lensed and unsettling for an hour, writer/director Kieron Hawkes' debut thins out badly in the final third, leaving the charismatic Anderson to prop it up.

• Eve Barlow, Empire Magazine

  A nasty Brit thriller that achieves the impossible and has you actually pining for Danny Dyer.

• James Mottram, The List

  Hawkes has bags of technical talent. If only he'd applied it to a script where we cared about the characters.

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