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This crime drama features great performances and the three directors make the setting -- 1970s and 1980s Yorkshire -- an immersive, gritty, and dangerous place.
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What starts out as a tale of serial killing quickly becomes even more sinister and complex. Apr 8, 2010
What starts out as a tale of serial killing quickly becomes even more sinister and complex.
Calvin Wilson
This is a hugely ambitious piece of work that packs a cumulative wallop when it's all over. Mar 26, 2010 | Rating: 4.5/5
This is a hugely ambitious piece of work that packs a cumulative wallop when it's all over.
Chris Vognar
On its own, each film hauntingly creates a murk of collusion, pervasive corruption, and 57 varieties of predation. Mar 11, 2010 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
On its own, each film hauntingly creates a murk of collusion, pervasive corruption, and 57 varieties of predation.
Carrie Rickey
This is the sort of undertaking the UK's Channel 4 excels at, and is approached in the United States only by ambitious cable TV series. Mar 11, 2010 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
This is the sort of undertaking the UK's Channel 4 excels at, and is approached in the United States only by ambitious cable TV series.
Roger Ebert
Red Riding Trilogy, with its remarkable performances, its brilliantly constructed puzzle, its dispiriting cycles of violence, isn't an easy ride. But it is an exhilarating one. Mar 5, 2010 | Rating: 4/4
Red Riding Trilogy, with its remarkable performances, its brilliantly constructed puzzle, its dispiriting cycles of violence, isn't an easy ride. But it is an exhilarating one.
Lisa Kennedy
Fans of Peace's books should be satisfied by their treatment here, although it bears asking just how many more serial killers, tortured cops and pretentious, fetishistic acts of violence the film audience can withstand. Mar 5, 2010 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Fans of Peace's books should be satisfied by their treatment here, although it bears asking just how many more serial killers, tortured cops and pretentious, fetishistic acts of violence the film audience can withstand.
Ann Hornaday
Red Riding is not to be grasped, followed, or understood-that's why you need to see it. Aug 29, 2018 | Full Review…
Red Riding is not to be grasped, followed, or understood-that's why you need to see it.
David Thomson
A byzantine labyrinth of the sordid and crooked. Sep 12, 2010 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
A byzantine labyrinth of the sordid and crooked.
Mark Dujsik
Thematically adventurous...the bloody shocks that paint the town Red emerge from suburban squalor: dirty streets, dirty crimes, and dirty politicians. [Blu-ray] Sep 9, 2010 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Thematically adventurous...the bloody shocks that paint the town Red emerge from suburban squalor: dirty streets, dirty crimes, and dirty politicians. [Blu-ray]
Peter Canavese
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. Sep 7, 2010 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…
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.
Brian Holcomb
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. Sep 3, 2010 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
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.
Dan Lybarger
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. Jul 4, 2010 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…
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.
Ian Buckwalter
Have you seen a movie which traps you in its desperate, grey and morose environment and only lets go when the credits rolls towards the end of its 4-1/2 hours of amazing story telling? Red Riding is a mind bending, multi-layered, thick and brutal trilogy based on David Peace's 4 "Red Riding" novels. It dramatizes some actual murders in Yorkshire, England and tells multiple, inter-connected stories of its participants : West Yorkshire PD, the residents and few outsiders. The movie scores on multiple counts : rock solid script, sharp acting and brilliant direction. Its a first rate crime drama which pulls absolutely no punches. Serious cinema and absolutely must watch.
Super Reviewer
"1974" (Julian Jarrold) - 7/10 "1980" (James Marsh) - 9/10 "1983" (Annand Tucker) - 9/10 OVERALL SCORE - 9/10
Perhaps I am among the minority, but the Red Riding Trilogy did little to entertain or inspire me. Much like the reception I gave The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, the Red Riding Trilogy does little to set it apart from any other films in the suspense/thriller genre.
The first part was plain bore, second one quite good & the third just a bit better than the first part. Interestingly, while the first & last part were quite related, the second one had very few bearings to the two. The final instalment seemed more like a follow-up/sequel to the first part. If a handful of sequences from the second part were adjusted somehow in the first or last part, there would have been no need for the second part --- the only part that was interesting enough. It could possibly have been made as an independent movie based on the Yorkshire Ripper case. Had that happened, it would have saved me the trouble of surviving the rest of the parts. While I haven't read the books on which the trilogy was based, I feel that the adaptation would have been more successful as a TV series with more than 3 episodes. I don't know if the books were any good, but this trilogy fails miserably on the whole.
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