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All Critics (10) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (2)
Perhaps most importantly, it feels like a tale that hasn't been told before. Jul 20, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Perhaps most importantly, it feels like a tale that hasn't been told before.
Ed Potton
A valuable, intelligent debut. Jul 20, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
A valuable, intelligent debut.
Peter Bradshaw
Timely and important, if somewhat familiar. May 10, 2018 | Full Review…
Timely and important, if somewhat familiar.
Elizabeth Kerr
Writer/ director Jenny Lu lifts the lid on a seedy underworld, but cannot dive beneath the surface it seems happy to skim. Jun 4, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Writer/ director Jenny Lu lifts the lid on a seedy underworld, but cannot dive beneath the surface it seems happy to skim.
Rich Phippen
Tina and Sasa's friendship in particular is one of the strongest parts of the film, as the two women learn to understand the origins of each other's prickliness. Aug 14, 2018 | Full Review…
Tina and Sasa's friendship in particular is one of the strongest parts of the film, as the two women learn to understand the origins of each other's prickliness.
Rebecca Liu
It's a pity, then, that so many of the plot's turning points are engineered through heavy-handed writing that would shame a soap opera. Jul 23, 2018 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
It's a pity, then, that so many of the plot's turning points are engineered through heavy-handed writing that would shame a soap opera.
Edward Porter
Lu's script is functional, with leaden dialogue and plotting that tells rather than reveals. Yet the performances are painfully alive... Jul 22, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Lu's script is functional, with leaden dialogue and plotting that tells rather than reveals. Yet the performances are painfully alive...
Simran Hans
Gloomy, authentic, essential: this auspicious feature debut from writer-director Jenny Lu is an anti-fairy tale of forgotten women and the false promises of end-stage capitalism. Jul 20, 2018 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
Gloomy, authentic, essential: this auspicious feature debut from writer-director Jenny Lu is an anti-fairy tale of forgotten women and the false promises of end-stage capitalism.
MaryAnn Johanson
Jenny Lu has crafted a very human story that balances the domestic with high drama. Jul 19, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Jenny Lu has crafted a very human story that balances the domestic with high drama.
Owen Richards
Quietly moving in the way it reflects a country in crisis, where outsiders are unwelcome and easily exploited and class is no protection against the chill winds of austerity. Jul 16, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Quietly moving in the way it reflects a country in crisis, where outsiders are unwelcome and easily exploited and class is no protection against the chill winds of austerity.
Allan Hunter
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