Tyrannosaur

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matthew w Extremely grim tale of two lost souls, one violent & one fragile looking for some sort of redemption anchored by the excellent Mullan & the truly heartbreaking Colman. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 12/17/23 Full Review Shock Therapy R This is the underbelly of fear and hate, and a brilliant take at that. Why are we so angry? Can we even remember? This was an exposé of the mirror to which we don't want to glance, and the looking glass with which we don't want to peer when disaster strikes. Yet the abused, felt safe with Joseph, and the boy, sought to protect him. Roger Ebert before he died wrote in his review of this movie that perhaps ‘some demons were better than others in hell'. I disagree with this characterization. Hell is where we live. Some make it out. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 12/02/22 Full Review Squirrel H Relatively unknown when first made, hence watching with no notion. Acting, directing outstanding. Hits all your emotions in one film. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/09/22 Full Review Audience Member A film as hard as steel, served by an exceptional acting, especially the performance of the battered woman, totally bluffing. We will also appreciate the terrible efficiency of the direction, which sounds right in this deleterious atmosphere, prepare your handkerchiefs! Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member If you're the kind of person who is easily upset or depressed, Tyrannosaur is not the film for you. It's almost relentlessly bleak, often feeling like one of Dante's circles of hell, and it has a very diluted colour palate, with most scenes using only a few base colours. It's certainly well-acted, with Peter Mullan and Olivia Coleman giving some of their rawest on-screen performances to date. The film always strives for realism, and tries to show what life is like on the bottom rung, with seemingly everything and everyone out to get you. It does have it's fair share of familiar narrative devices, including the always tiresome ‘single mother's new boyfriend is an irredeemably awful scumbag cliché', but for the most part it's a stripped-down, gritty portrayal of everyday life for people with a heart full of remorse. It's certainly not to everyone's tastes, and has few moments of levity, but if you have a strong stomach, I'd recommend seeing it at least once. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review laurie s Mullen always plays a good subhuman vermin creature and such is the power of his acting it makes me want to beat him to death with a baseball bat. Now, that is good acting. So too was Marsan's vile character evoking similar emotions. Colman was brillint too. A superior movie. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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