Critic Reviews

• Michał Oleszczyk, Chicago Sun-Times

  Visually, there's an elegance to "The Door" that feels both a virtue and a limitation.

• Blake Howard, 2UE That Movie Show

  Only cinemagoers who've enjoyed the cringe-worthy cine-sadism of watching train wrecks like Tommy Wiseau's The Room and Plan 9 from Outer Space could and should embrace this turd.

• Jim Schembri, 3AW

  Without make up or any adornments, the haggard Helen Mirren cooks, cleans and growls her way through this intimate, well-handled two-hander opposite the equally able Martina Gedeck.

• Josh Forward, Trespass

  This film is a failure on a catastrophic level.

• Julian Wood, FILMINK (Australia)

  An absorbing and complex character drama, but one that's difficult to connect to at times.

• Philippa Hawker, The Age (Australia)

  There's something quite haunting about the relationship between the two women: in some surprising ways, this is a determinedly unsentimental work.

• Andrew L. Urban, Urban Cinefile

  Seems like a creative miscalculation by all concerned. The dialogue is clumsy in translation, the great director István Szabó seems to have lost his subtlety and his eye for performance

• Louise Keller, Urban Cinefile

  The film has a formality and stilted quality about it that is distancing

• Don Groves, sbs.com.au

  Mirren and Gedeck shine but stirring Hungarian drama has its faults.

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