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Straightheads (2007)

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Reviews Counted: 18

Fresh: 7

Rotten:11

Average Rating: 4.6/10

Genre: Thriller

Starring: Gillian Anderson, Danny Dyer

Starring: Gillian Anderson, Danny Dyer

Director: Dan Reed

Director: Dan Reed

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...a low-key drama disguised as a revenge thriller...

Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | comment Comment
10/14/07
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews

About how some of us would be willing to sell our souls to protect our loved ones if we had to...

Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | comment Comment
09/27/07
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

The film looks professional and has a relatively big-name star in Gillian Anderson, but the screenplay - written by director Dan Reed - doesn't make a single bit of sense.

Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | comment Comment
09/04/07
Brian Webster
Apollo Guide

Feels like an experiment in suspense and violence that doesn't actually tell us anything

Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | comment Comment
05/05/07
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

A repellent, ill-thought-through feature.

Full Review Source: Observer [UK] | comment Comment
04/30/07
Philip French
Observer [UK]

Masculinity in Crisis, part 364.

Full Review Source: Independent | comment Comment
04/27/07
Anthony Quinn
Independent

Payback involving a shotgun, a kitchen table and a heap of pain.

Full Review Source: Sun Online | comment Comment
04/27/07
Johnny Vaughan
Sun Online

Even if Straightheads looks as if it was made for about £4, it’s been a long time since someone was brave enough to make a such a movie.

Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK] | comment Comment
04/27/07
Daily Mirror [UK]

Make no mistake: this lo-fi rape-revenge Brit flick wants to shock you.

Full Review Source: Total Film | comment Comment
04/27/07
Jamie Russell
Total Film

Country rapists have their way with Gillian Anderson and poke Danny Dyer's eye out. The duo want payback.

Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph | comment Comment
04/27/07
Tim Robey
Daily Telegraph

This nasty and nonsensical rape-revenge thriller is a feature-length exercise in wrongness.

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
04/27/07
Steve Rose
Guardian [UK]

Straightheads has the pornographic ingredients of a first-rate cult thriller.

Full Review Source: Times [UK] | comment Comment
04/27/07
James Christopher
Times [UK]

Where's Mulder when you need him.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
04/27/07
Neil Smith
Channel 4 Film

Anderson bares (almost) all in this flawed but fitfully fascinating thriller with a comical, if less compelling, turn from Danny Dyer.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
04/27/07
Anna Smith
Empire Magazine

It's clear from the start this isn't a revenge drama that's going to wimp out at the end.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
04/27/07
Derek Elley
Variety
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The violence may be too strong for some but this is worth seeing for a terrific performance by Gillian Anderson.

Full Review Source: ViewLondon | comment Comment
04/26/07
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

The film is a shallow study of the ‘intoxicating allure of violence', with a few gratuitous tit shots thrown in for good measure.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
04/24/07
Time Out

Exploitative and depressing.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
04/24/07
Stella Papamichael
BBC
 
 
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