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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.
Theatrical Release:Apr 13, 2007 Limited
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
What makes this multi-layered masterpiece memorable is Jackie's convincing transformation from damaged goods into a wanton temptress conflicted about whether or not to use her body to gain the confidence of this recently-paroled ex-con. Revenge as the swe
This flawed but arresting film boasts an 'atmospheric and intense thriller' air and intentionally leaves minor points open to stimulate discussion.
Andrea Arnold’s Red Road, from her own screenplay, is the director’s remarkable feature-film debut after three internationally well-received shorts, Milk (1998), Dog (2001) and Wasp (2003).
Top CriticA haunting treat and taut tale that combines civic surveillance with voyeurism, revenge with eroticism.
Its style is its substance, featuring a lonely woman who stalks a man, her motive revealed only at the conclusion of the story.
Despite restrictive Dogme conditions (it's part of a series), Arnold, the only woman in 2006 Cannes Competition, has made a bold surveillance thriller that raises provocative questions about ethics and sexuality; a companion piece to Lives of Others
Kate Dickie turns in an intense, layered performance as Jackie. Considering the fact that she barely speaks a word in the course of the film, it's especially impressive.
In a triumph of filmmaking, Arnold has endowed a tale of female rage with disquieting social resonance.
Arnold impose un rythme réglé au quart de tour positionnant les enjeux dramatiques du récit dans une situation de constante évolution,
An odd, unsatisfying meditation on grief.
It's dynamite, the kind of sexy, paranoid, creepily atmospheric picture that invades all your senses at once.
Top CriticBy limiting our entry into Jackie's headspace, Red Road feels disingenuously committed to sympathetically portraying her situation, partly using her circumstances as pretense for narrative suspense.
A slow-burning but enticing thriller, it captures its working class Glaswegian setting in absorbing detail.
Where it excels is in capturing the dead end hopelessness of Glasgow's boozers and tower blocks.
It’s incredibly tense.
An extraordinarily mature and thoughtful film.
What we have here is one of those very long, very slow dramas that might just have worked if the inevitable twist ending had been worth sticking around for. But it isn’t.
Katie Dickie gives an astonishing performance as Jackie, displaying a cold, brittle exterior that occasionally cracks to reveal both pain and passion in equal measure.
That devilish idea machine Lars von Trier reached into his bag of tricks and came up with the Advance Party project.
Thankfully, Arnold’s talent is more convincing than her storyline.
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