London Fields
Paladin | Release Date: October 26, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
16
METASCORE
Overwhelming dislike based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
4
Negative:
8
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
50
Screen DailyAllan HunterSep 19, 2015
London Fields overflows with interesting ideas but they are frequently buried under lurid fantasy sequences, blunt-edged satire and the sense that it is much more amused by its own wild daring than we are. Read full review
42
The PlaylistNikola GrozdanovicSep 19, 2015
Buried underneath the glop are interesting notions on reality, creation, and the nature of death. And thanks to its aesthetic, it's at least a very beautiful catastrophe. Read full review
40
The GuardianHenry BarnesSep 19, 2015
Novelistic, rich and awfully silly, London Fields – like Ben Wheatley’s take on High Rise - is a long-awaited adaptation of a popular and gloomily prophetic book, that seems unnecessary. Read full review
40
The TelegraphJane MulkerrinsSep 19, 2015
Heard, who certainly has the requisite physical allure for the part, puts in a decent enough turn as the enigmatic Six but, like her on-screen character, can seemingly do the nothing to prevent the brutal murder, either of herself, or of Amis’s bestseller. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreOct 25, 2018
It’s a neo-noir murder mystery capturing Heard at peak femme fatale in a tale observed, manipulated and told by a struggling writer (Billy Bob Thornton) for “the chaos.” “Chaos” doesn’t quite sum up the movie. But almost. Read full review
30
VarietyAndrew BarkerSep 19, 2015
[A] misbegotten mess. Read full review
20
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinOct 18, 2018
The aggressively awful London Fields is, once again, proof that not every successful novel should become a movie. Read full review
20
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthySep 19, 2015
So comprehensively does the film fail to represent the labyrinthian literary wonders of Amis’ book that it scarcely seems worthwhile to detail its universal shortcomings. Read full review
12
RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiOct 26, 2018
A boring and garish mess that even fans of the book will find nearly impossible to follow, this is easily the most embarrassing film with which Amis has ever been even vaguely connected. Read full review
12
Rolling StoneDavid FearOct 25, 2018
This London Fields is nothing but fallow ground. Or, to apply the metaphor that Thornton’s scribe gives to Heard’s sexed-up temptress when he first meets her, it’s a black hole — something that sucks talent, taste, light, energy and matter into maw and leaves everything stranded in a void. Read full review
10
L.A. WeeklyAlan ScherstuhlOct 25, 2018
Mathew Cullen’s calamitous film adaptation of Martin Amis’ London Fields plays like the hazy recollection of someone who hated the book, an incomprehensible jumble of misogynistic claptrap. It dashes joylessly through dense material, too quickly for individual moments to register, much less resonate. Read full review
0
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisOct 25, 2018
London Fields, directed by Matthew Cullen and adapted from Martin Amis’s 1989 novel, is, quite simply, horrendous — a trashy, tortured misfire from beginning to end. Read full review
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