Tyrannosaur

Tyrannosaur (2011)

  • 82% of critics liked it
    (73 reviews)

  • 85% of users liked it
    (5,253 ratings)

Joseph (Peter Mullan) is an unemployed widower with a drinking problem, a man crippled by his own volatile temperament and furious anger. Hannah (Olivia Colman) is a Christian worker at a charity shop, a respectable woman who seems wholesome and happy. When circumstance brings the pair together,… More

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Unrated, 1 hr. 31 min.
Directed By
Paddy Considine
Written By
Paddy Considine
Genres
Art House & International, Drama
In Theaters
Nov 18, 2011 Limited
On DVD
Apr 3, 2012
Strand Releasing

Critic Reviews

  • Ty Burr, Boston Globe

    The movie is cruelly frank about the ways damage cascades down to the powerless, but while it's not for the fainthearted (or for animal lovers), rewards are there.

  • Rick Groen, Globe and Mail

    The principals are superb, with Mullan and Colman doing a masterful job of inhabiting their separate but equal prisons.

  • Peter Howell, Toronto Star

    You won't find two finer performances in recent times than those by Mullan and Colman, who in a perfect world would each have received Oscar nominations this week.

  • Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader

    Paddy Considine's first feature as writer-director comes off like a playwriting exercise, with familiar characters taking every opportunity to wage messy, cathartic arguments or exhume traumatic memories.

  • Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune

    The acting - particularly the moving performance of Olivia Colman as a battered spouse living in a grim corner of Leeds, England - is fierce and committed. So why doesn't its impact linger?

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Mark W


    Paddy Considine made a name for himself with dynamic performances in director Shane Meadows' British, working-class drama's "A Room For Romeo Brass" and "Dead Man's Shoes". Those were two great films that benefited from his intense input. Now, as a… More

  • Daniel M


    One of the most special things that can happen to a film fan is to be completely side-swiped by a film that we expected little of or knew nothing about. Most of the time the surprise is a pleasant one, the kind of surprise that comes from finding a funny comedy or a good action movie… More

  • Carlos M


    The two main characters are downright unbearable and it is irritating to see how they are so pathetic and self-destructive dealing with their conflicts. Besides, the film wants to shock the audience to create pathos, when clearly it has no direction and apparently nothing to say.

  • Liam G


    Paddy Considine's first feature film is an incredibly raw and riveting piece of cinema. Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman and Eddie Marsan give superb performances. Colman in particular, is heartbreaking as a very troubled woman. ''Tyrannosaur'' deals with themes… More

  • Anthony L


    Devastatingly brutal but heartwarming and even a little uplifting. For a debut that's a pretty impressive contrast to achieve but achieve it he does, quite brilliantly too. Paddy Considine is an actor I really rate but now he's a director to look out for, although it is his… More

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