Margaret: Press reviews

'No group of actors in a film ever had so little time to establish so much complexity or succeeded with such consummate skill.'

'stunning: provocative and brilliant, a sprawling neurotic nightmare of urban catastrophe, with something of John Cassavetes and Tom Wolfe, and rocket-fuelled by a superbly thin-skinned performance by Anna Paquin.'

'This is frayed-edges filmmaking at its finest.'

'Lonergan - like John Cassavetes and Pedro Almodóvar - reaches subtle truths via mayhem.'

'For all its flaws, Margaret is a big, serious, unashamedly intelligent film.'

'Haunting and thought-provoking despite flaws; an important post-9/11 movie with its own troubled mythology.'

'an intermittently enjoyable but overlong and uneven film'

'An intelligent, thoughtful film.'

'Lonergan's long-awaited second feature proves as flawed as it is ambitious.'