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10/12/07
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.
Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins
Genre: Thriller, Vengeance, Theatrical Release, Love
US Box Office: $0
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 CriticA brilliantly conceived thriller that keeps us guessing right up to the very end, Red Road intrigues but frustrates by its slow development and often incomprehensible Scottish dialogue
10/05/07
Top CriticNo drab stone is left unturned
08/27/09
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04/23/09
Sets a chilling downer mood that gets under your skin like few films ever do.
01/14/08
Ancorado pelas performances complexas de Dickie e Curran, o filme traz a diretora estreante Andrea Arnold como uma revelação a ser observada com atenção nos próximos anos.
01/08/08
Unfortunately, its superb performances and assured camerawork are overwhelmed by dubious psychology and a clichéd climax.
10/26/07
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
Like the Peeping Tom-paranoia of similar recent films Disturbia and Civic Duty, this finely crafted debut feature by Scottish writer/director Andrea Arnold packs a wallop.
06/29/07
Red Road is an atmospheric little thriller made up of equal parts paranoia, loneliness and anxiety.
06/29/07
The glacially paced film is tersely episodic, and scenes are thrown onto the screen like jagged bits of raw meat that have been torn from a bone.
06/28/07
It’s a jarring sensation, for a thriller not to be about the chase, or the mysterious force of evil lurking in the shadows, but about an intangible gulf dividing two people occupying the same room.
06/27/07
Though it's paced as a thriller, the film ultimately emerges as a haunting exploration of how grief can weigh on us, and the depths to which it can drive us.
06/22/07
An impressive debut that is orchestrated with a deep, underlying tension that never lets us guess what will come.
06/21/07
I couldn't get this film's quiet power out of my mind.
06/21/07
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06/16/07
Top CriticA must for movie lovers who want to see how so much drama, mystery and emotion can be created from so little.
06/16/07
It should be noted that Red Road contains one extremely graphic sex scene. But like much else that transpires in Red Road, what is seen is not always what it looks like on the surface.
06/15/07
some 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
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