A slow-burning but enticing thriller, it captures its working class Glaswegian setting in absorbing detail.
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11/02/06
Red Road (2007)
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Reviews Counted:82
Fresh:72
Rotten:10
Average Rating:7.3/10
Consensus: Red Road director Andrea Arnold skillfully parses out just enough plot details at a time to keep the audience engrossed in this seductive thriller.
Theatrical Release:27-10-2006
Synopsis: Developed at the Sundance Screenwriters Lab and winner of a Special Jury Prize at the Cannes International Film Festival, Red Road is a bristling, atmospheric thriller that rumbles with... [More]
Starring: Kate Dickie, Tony Curran, Martin Compston, Natalie Press
Director: Andrea Arnold
Reviews for Red Road
Top Criticsome may find the denouement a tad sentimental, but it is a long, dark and twisted journey that takes us there, scrutinising the shadier contours of human loss and guilt like a grainy face on a screen.
06/13/07
Top CriticIt’s incredibly tense.
10/28/06
Top CriticWhere it excels is in capturing the dead end hopelessness of Glasgow's boozers and tower blocks.
10/31/06
Top CriticKatie Dickie gives an astonishing performance as Jackie, displaying a cold, brittle exterior that occasionally cracks to reveal both pain and passion in equal measure.
10/21/06
An extraordinarily mature and thoughtful film.
10/28/06
A strong story--involving and moving and probably a little too long.
08/19/06
What we have here is one of those very long, very slow dramas that might just have worked if the inevitable twist ending had been worth sticking around for. But it isn’t.
10/27/06
That devilish idea machine Lars von Trier reached into his bag of tricks and came up with the Advance Party project.
09/23/06
The queasy mixture of sympathy and curiosity that Red Road evokes is evidence of a talented, risk-taking filmmaker discovering her power.
04/13/07
Top CriticIt's dynamite, the kind of sexy, paranoid, creepily atmospheric picture that invades all your senses at once.
01/24/07
Andrea Arnold’s Red Road, from her own screenplay, is the director’s remarkable feature-film debut after three internationally well-received shorts, Milk (1998), Dog (2001) and Wasp (2003).
04/04/07
Red Road is a knockout first feature from Andrea Arnold... Her intimate thriller raises moral questions as it ponders guilt, revenge and redemption.
05/11/07
Scary and utterly original.
04/13/07
A strange sort of map of the city [is] spread across these fragmented cubes of visual information. And there's also the metaphorical map of the characters' lives, where they're coming from and where they're going.
09/20/07
I like that you're never sure where this road is going to lead.
07/09/07
specific and real -- punishingly so.
04/12/07
A detailed character study that yanks us into the emotions of someone we might not glance at twice if we saw her on the street.
05/03/07
A hypnotically absorbing suspense story in the Patricia Highsmith mold, Red Road draws us in with doom-laden images of high-tech voyeurism before pummeling us with shock twists.
05/04/07
Jackie's story extends beyond her control, no matter what she sees, thinks she sees, or tries to see.
05/30/07
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