Red Riding Trilogy Reviews
Mark Reviews Movies
A byzantine labyrinth of the sordid and crooked.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Groucho Reviews
Thematically adventurous...the bloody shocks that paint the town Red emerge from suburban squalor: dirty streets, dirty crimes, and dirty politicians. [Blu-ray]
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
CinemaBlend.com
Taken as a whole, the trilogy depicts a universe polluted by the evil that men do and the pain and suffering their evil leaves behind.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
eFilmCritic.com
You'll have to work to get the most out of 'Red Riding,' but if you are as diligent as Piggot, the mystery is worth it.
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| Original Score: 4/5
DCist
Grisoni demands rapt attention by keeping the intentions and the primary plot threads hidden. You care about getting to the bottom of the mystery, but even if this had ended without a resolution, that wouldn't have detracted from the gripping drama.
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| Original Score: 8/10
CNNRadio
Three powerful movies about police corruption in Northern England had me squirming in my seat. The only complaint, and it's a small one, is the apparently authentic Yorkshire accents were hard to understand at times. English subtitles would help.
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| Original Score: A
Miss FlickChick
This dark set of brilliantly-acted, interlocking thrillers fails to live up to David Peace's novels, but still runs blood-red rings around the average American crime film.
Times-Picayune
It is ambitious, it is gripping and it is dark. It's also entirely irresistible cinema, an uncompromising and hard-to-turn-away-from nightmare in three acts.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Red Riding just keeps getting creepier and creepier. And better and better.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Top CriticThe films are complex, long-form storytelling, requiring you to observe, recall and interpret as the story bleeds through three movie-length episodes.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
One Guy's Opinion
One leaves this long but fascinating series appalled at the level of depravity one tiny corner of the globe can hold, but strangely exhilarated--as well as moved--by the craft and cunning with which it's been portrayed.
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| Original Score: A-
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
What starts out as a tale of serial killing quickly becomes even more sinister and complex.
This is a hugely ambitious piece of work that packs a cumulative wallop when it's all over.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Oregonian
The music, the wardrobe, the hair and cars and manners and all feel credibly specific, yet they impart a sick-making sense of familiarity. The sort of wrongdoing these films depict is, terribly, timeless.
Cinema Autopsy
The level of corruption, police violence and "we do what we bloody want" mentality is genuinely shocking, making the serial killings seem almost like a symptom of a community that has become rotten to the core.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Movie Habit
Lies somewhere between The Wire and Three Colors
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
These adaptations feel almost epic, even Dickensian in their scope and tone.
Windy City Times
A stylish cornucopia of treats for dedicated Anglophiles and fans of crime procedurals alike.
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Highly detailed, atmospheric storytelling lifts these tales beyond the action's sordid transgressions
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| Original Score: B
Movie Retriever
If you think you are willing to start this journey across years of vile behavior, innocence lost, and true tragedy then go all the way. You won't regret it.
