Tyrannosaur

"Brit thesp Paddy Considine makes a strong writing-helming feature debut."

"Approach Considine’s brilliant directorial debut with caution. It’s a pitiless, fearsome beast that will hammer you in the gut, hard. And Olivia Colman will blow you away."

"The characters are trapped, suffocated, pushed through a story that gives them very little room or time to figure themselves out, and that finally turns their feelings into the wan stuff of fable."

"Certainly a very impressive debut from Considine."

"This isn't the kind of movie that even has hope enough to contain a message. There is no message, only the reality of these wounded personalities."

"It is the kind of film that leaves you limp, exhausted and feeling battered by the end."

"Vivid, bruising and electrifying."

"This is an intense exploration of the corrosive effects of human violence."

"A great deal more than a misery memoir on film, this character study is as gripping as any hardboiled thriller, delivering emotional content that'll stay with you for a long time. Highly recommended."

"Tyrannosaur sounds like a particularly extreme work of British working-class miserablism, but Considine and his cast have no use for comfortable distance created by cliché."