Perfect Sense Reviews

You've got to make room in your heart for a film in which the world ends with neither a bang nor a whimper but a cuddle.

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Frustrating at times, possibly too insistent when it comes to screen poetry, but the concept is intriguing, offering enough scenes of oddity and distress to hold attention and occasionally raise anxiety levels.

Full Review | Original Score: B

Engrossing before packing a staggering emotional wallop as its full implications are revealed.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

The film's limited budget means that the end of the world looks no more cataclysmic than a prolonged strike by Glasgow's bin-men.

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The film loses its charm with annoying sequences that have a narrator explain to us "The Meaning of it All" and then tell us "What Really Matters" in life: Love. Love. Love.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Sadly, the central romance fails to convince as the two leads lack chemistry...

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

One thinks inevitably of Camus's La peste.

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British director David Mackenzie makes good use of an obviously limited budget, with the apocalypse neatly suggested by just a few litter-strewn Glasgow streets patrolled by men in respirator masks.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

This is a frightening and tender sci-fi, shot very flat and unhysterical, full of eccentric detail (the need to make more entertaining food after everyone loses their sense of taste) and always an air of regret spilling out at the edges.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Although watchable, the only thing that succeeds is Mackenzie triggering our deepest, darkest fears of complete sensory malfunction ...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Sublimely and uncompromisingly daft.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

It's a movie that leaves you guiltily unimpressed while it pours its pseudo-lyrical heart out.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

A pretentious and perfectly daft film that manages to combine absurdity with tedium.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Director David Mackenzie's refreshing take on the disaster plague genre goes for the personal rather than the pandemic...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

A half-baked apocalypse in slow motion.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

An intriguing idea for a film that heightens all the senses.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

The story and characters have nowhere to go beyond bleak acceptance of the inevitable. So it's difficult to care what happens.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

Thrillingly ambitious, ecstatically romantic, utterly unexpected.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Chicly shot and edited, and pretty much art-directed to death, Mackenzie's movie is curiously underwhelming and unbearably pretentious.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

A moving look at what it means to be human in the most extreme circumstances, this is kitchen-sink sci-fi with an aching soul.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5