Red Road (2006)
Average Rating: 7.3/10
Reviews Counted: 86
Fresh: 76 | Rotten: 10
Red Road director Andrea Arnold skillfully parses out just enough plot details at a time to keep the audience engrossed in this seductive thriller.
Average Rating: 7.7/10
Critic Reviews: 25
Fresh: 22 | Rotten: 3
Red Road director Andrea Arnold skillfully parses out just enough plot details at a time to keep the audience engrossed in this seductive thriller.
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A woman paid to watch others begins stalking one of the men she's been trailing in this thriller from Scotland. Jackie (Kate Dickie) is a woman who has buried herself in her work with a security company since the death of her husband and child. Jackie's work involves monitoring a crime-ridden corner of North Glasgow with a bank of closed circuit television cameras; after her shift is over, she either goes home or has an occasional assignation with a friend from work who isn't happy with his
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Kate Dickie
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Tony Curran
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Martin Compston
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Natalie Press
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Andrew Armour
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Unfortunately, its superb performances and assured camerawork are overwhelmed by dubious psychology and a clichéd climax.
Top CriticLike 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.
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.
A must for movie lovers who want to see how so much drama, mystery and emotion can be created from so little.
For a voyeuristic medium, this tale of a voyeur does a poor job of prying into its own protagonist's life.
With assured performers, handheld cameras and natural lighting -- the ABCs of the Dogme method -- [Andrea] Arnold has given this ambitious undertaking a provocative start.
Despite some elemental flaws in logic and plausibility, this is a tense and potent film at times that hints at the sort of greatness that we can find to a greater degree in Ms. Arnold's other works, Wasp and Fish Tank.
No drab stone is left unturned
It's sad that we live in a film world where the winner of 5 BAFTAs gets little to no press at all in the States and far-inferior films open on 4,000 screens. Don't let a movie this good slip away.
Sets a chilling downer mood that gets under your skin like few films ever do.
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.
A 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
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.
I like that you're never sure where this road is going to lead.
Red Road is an atmospheric little thriller made up of equal parts paranoia, loneliness and anxiety.
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.
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.
An impressive debut that is orchestrated with a deep, underlying tension that never lets us guess what will come.
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