London to Brighton
Outsider Pictures | Release Date: February 8, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
55
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Mixed or average reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Mixed:
4
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75
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Very good but very grim, Paul Andrew Williams' punishing debut doesn't pull many punches - although the characters certainly field their share of body blows. Read full review
75
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Character-driven thriller, which plays out against a backdrop of desperation, self-loathing and grinding poverty. Read full review
63
New York PostKyle Smith
A chilling pulp movie told with a pavement-eye view of the dregs of humanity. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Writer-director Paul Andrew Williams' unnecessarily hectic debut feature won several British film festival awards, no doubt for its bounty of low-budget stylized violence and blood, as well as its thing for prostitutes and runaways. Read full review
50
VarietyDerek Elley
Does what it does well but too often seems a pointless exercise in British miserabilism crossed with a nasty gangster yarn. Read full review
50
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
A slice of social realism, a wedge of naturalism, a symbolically freighted fairy tale -- at times, London to Brighton feels like all of these combined, which, before it all turns to mush, gives the film the aspect of a fascinating and ambitious pastiche. There’s something provocative about Mr. Williams’s attempt to join together so many conflicting, contradictory influences, even if in the end they manage only to cancel one another out. Read full review
40
Village VoiceNathan Lee
LTB offers a fresh (if grimy) contribution to kitchen-sink realism, but little to the tiresome persistence of vicious British gangster chic. Read full review
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