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Little White Lies - Priscilla Eyles | Screenrush Barometer:  |
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'Woolcock has overcome all odds to produce one of the best British flicks since This Is England.' |
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Total Film - Sam Wigley | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'Woolcock manages to bring her housing estate world to life without moralising or condescension, working in some banging grime and dubstep numbers to make a run-of-the-mill story feel thrillingly of the minute.' |
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Evening Standard - Derek Malcolm | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'Undoubtedly well acted and shot, and with a rip-roaring hip-hop score, it's impressively non-moralistic, just showing us how it is. That may be why Birmingham's cinemas have refused to show it.' |
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The Sunday Times - Edward Porter | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'film's biggest asset, its rough energy, fades away when the plot starts going round in circles.' |
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The Guardian - Peter Bradshaw | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'The movie doesn't look strong on realism and authenticity, and yet it's got drama and an ingenuous sort of emotional force' |
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Times on Line - Kevin Maher | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'A propulsive hip-hop musical-cum-morality tale that credibly mixes social realism with bursts of musical energy' |
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The Observer - Philip French | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'The Birmingham police have attempted to have the film banned for its apparent aggrandisement of its characters and their way of life: understandable but misguided.' |
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The Financial Times - Nigel Andrews | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'convincing neither as street-tough crime drama nor soul-motorised rap show' |
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The Daily Telegraph - Tim Robey | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'Brave but misconceived hip hop melodrama about a Birmingham crack dealer with money and women problems.' |
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The Independent - Anthony Quinn | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'Penny Woolcock's Birmingham-set drama seeks to meld the black gangsta flick with a hip-hop musical, which some will find a challenge.' |
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