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Tyrannosaur (2011)

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Average Rating: 7.2/10
Reviews Counted: 70
Fresh: 57 | Rotten: 13

Tyrannosaur is a brutal, frank, and ultimately rewarding story of violent men seeking far-off redemption.

Average Rating: 6.5/10
Critic Reviews: 17
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 6

Tyrannosaur is a brutal, frank, and ultimately rewarding story of violent men seeking far-off redemption.

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Joseph (Peter Mullan) is an unemployed widower with a drinking problem, a man crippled by his own volatile temperament and furious anger. Hannah (Olivia Colman) is a Christian worker at a charity shop, a respectable woman who seems wholesome and happy. When circumstance brings the pair together, Hannah appears as Joseph's guardian angel, tempering his fury and offering him warmth, kindness and acceptance. As their relationship develops, Hannah's own secrets are revealed - her husband (Eddie

Unrated, 1 hr. 31 min.

Art House & International, Drama

Directed By: Paddy Considine

Written By: Paddy Considine

In Theaters: Nov 18, 2011 Limited

On DVD: Apr 10, 2012

Box Office:$20.0k

Strand Releasing

The principals are superb, with Mullan and Colman doing a masterful job of inhabiting their separate but equal prisons.

January 27, 2012 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail

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Rick Groen

Globe and Mail

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You won't find two finer performances in recent times than those by Mullan and Colman, who in a perfect world would each have received Oscar nominations this week.

January 26, 2012 Full Review Source: Toronto Star

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Peter Howell

Toronto Star

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Paddy Considine's first feature as writer-director comes off like a playwriting exercise, with familiar characters taking every opportunity to wage messy, cathartic arguments or exhume traumatic memories.

December 1, 2011 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader

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Ben Sachs

Chicago Reader

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The acting - particularly the moving performance of Olivia Colman as a battered spouse living in a grim corner of Leeds, England - is fierce and committed. So why doesn't its impact linger?

December 1, 2011 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune

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Michael Phillips

Chicago Tribune

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This isn't the kind of movie that even has hope enough to contain a message. There is no message, only the reality of these wounded personalities.

December 1, 2011 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

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If only Considine was not so intent on trying to shock us. He succeeds at that, all right - but in doing so he fails his film.

November 19, 2011 Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger

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Stephen Whitty

Newark Star-Ledger

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It sounds like an exercise in miserabilism, but Considine extracts black comedy, compassion, and dignity from his downtrodden characters and their blighted setting.

February 22, 2012 Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix

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Peter Keough

Boston Phoenix

Considine makes painterly use of the canvases that are Mullan's and Colman's faces, deep pools of ache, in different stages of their descent to a breaking point.

January 27, 2012 Full Review Source: Jam! Movies

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Jim Slotek

Jam! Movies

A searing drama buoyed by exquisite performances and a keen understanding from its first-time director of the power of the absence of dialog.

December 9, 2011 Full Review Source: Times-Picayune

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Mike Scott

Times-Picayune

If the script ultimately seems a bit extreme (are there no immediate consequences for Joseph's tantrums or the criminal outbursts of Hannah's abusive husband?), it's often surprisingly successful in pushing the limits of British kitchen-sink drama.

December 8, 2011 Full Review Source: Seattle Times

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John Hartl

Seattle Times

[Mullan and Colman are] the anchors of the film's scary, tightly wound world, in which everyone's spring is dangerously close to being sprung.

December 1, 2011 Full Review Source: RedEye

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Matt Pais

RedEye

A relentlessly-grim yarn revolving around a tragically-flawed trio being slowly swallowed whole by the emotional quicksand of a blue-collar wasteland where there really aren't any winners.

November 21, 2011 Full Review Source: AALBC.com

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Kam Williams

AALBC.com

Don't be afraid of the movie's grim facade: this is an uplifting journey worth taking.

November 21, 2011 Full Review Source: Film School Rejects

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Robert Levin

Film School Rejects

Does anyone really need to sit through this almost unbearably bleak downer of a movie?

November 19, 2011 Full Review Source: Back Stage

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Pete Hammond

Back Stage

Amidst excruciating violence, the storyline is not as strong as the harrowingly indelible performances.

November 19, 2011 Full Review Source: Film-Forward.com

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Nora Lee Mandel

Film-Forward.com

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Paddy Considine's first feature film is an incredibly raw and riveting piece of cinema. Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman and Eddie Marsan give superb performances. Colman in particular, is heartbreaking as a very troubled woman. ''Tyrannosaur'' deals with themes like redemption in a brutal way, but it manages to warm your

November 30, 2011

Liam Gadd

Super Reviewer

Devastatingly brutal but heartwarming and even a little uplifting. For a debut that's a pretty impressive contrast to achieve but achieve it he does, quite brilliantly too. Paddy Considine is an actor I really rate but now he's a director to look out for, although it is his writing that is most impressive here. Peter

October 14, 2011

Anthony Lawrie

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Tyrannosaur Quotes

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1. Hannah: God loves you. You're God's child.
2. Joseph: God ain't my fucking daddy, my daddy was a cunt. He knew he was a cunt. God still thinks he's God. No-one's told him otherwise.
– Submitted by Feno B (2 months ago)
1. Hannah: I feel safe with you.
2. Joseph: Nobody's safe with me.
– Submitted by Chris P (3 months ago)
1. Joseph: What happened to you?
2. Hannah: I fell over.
– Submitted by Chris P (3 months ago)

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