Sightseers Reviews
AV Club
The film proceeds with a lazy, sketch-like feel that makes more sense after considering that these characters began on stage; the material was reconceived as a movie after a TV pilot failed to ignite.
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| Original Score: C-
Top CriticLowe and Oram have been living with these characters for years, and it shows. The acting is very funny and well-observed.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Blu-ray.com
Shocking in all the good ways, supported by two fantastic performances from Alice Lowe and Steve Oram...Sightseers is a legitimate doozy.
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| Original Score: A-
Hollywood & Fine
Like the slow-cooking version of a road comedy, yielding tasty results thanks to the craft and patience of the filmmakers.
A morose, unsettling blend of pathology for sport and murder for laughs.
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| Original Score: 1/4
A sick gag of a film that's bound to scar only the irony-challenged.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Slant Magazine
This sardonic depiction of Britain, as a land where a thin veneer of strained politesse and fussy specificity of tastes masks a throbbing heart of darkness, makes for Ben Wheatley's best film yet.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
ColeSmithey.com
Blacker than the La Brea Tar Pits director Ben Wheatley's dark comedy, about a couple of serial killer lovebirds, is an exquisitely funny movie.
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| Original Score: B+
We Got This Covered
Ben Wheatley's latest film delivers horror in the most unexpected ways, but that wouldn't be possible without a darkly enjoyable script and delightfully unsettling performances by Alice Lowe and Steve Oram.
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| Original Score: 8/10
Badass Digest
SIGHTSEERS is a wickedly funny, brutal little film, one with crushed skulls and huge laughs and a dreadfully clever use of Gloria Jones' original version of "Tainted Love."
Lowe and Oram get along with wonderfully neurotic chemistry, making it easy to root for them in spite of their newfound bloodlust.
Oregonian
It's neither grounded enough to be genuinely horrifying nor over the top enough to be nastily fun.
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| Original Score: C+
Film Threat
Wheatley remains a master of infusing the mundane with overtones of dread.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Future Movies UK
Sick, weird and very funny, it'll be fascinating to see what other genre mash-ups Wheatley has in store over the coming years.
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| Original Score: 8/10
HitFix
Ben Wheatley has quietly turned into one of the most interesting voices in English film right now.
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| Original Score: A-
...Merciless and unforgiving at every turn, thoroughly British, creepy and beautiful even in the gloriously demented details.
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| Original Score: B+
Very British blend of quirky character-comedy and homicidal violence has all the makings of a midnight-movie cult classic.
3AW
Deftly directed by Ben Wheatley (whose fright-fest Kill List is a must on DVD)...the film is careful not to make light of violence, using comedy to sharpen its sinister edge
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
The Sunday Age
A work of inspired comic genius that shows Lowe and Oram as faces to watch. It also confirms, again, why Wheatley is one of the most fascinating talents working in film today.
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| Original Score: 4/5
