Tyrannosaur: Press reviews

'this character study is as gripping as any hardboiled thriller, delivering emotional content that'll stay with you for a long time'

'It's art, not fun, be warned.'

'Considine's eloquent, savagely poetic script is grounded in a cinematic idiom of bleached light, bleak estates and broken lives.'

'The startlingly assured and quite brilliant first feature film to be written and directed by the actor Paddy Considine.'

'a visceral, considered dissection of abuse and rage and the dysfunctional relationships that rage creates, which, in turn, perpetuate that rage, and an examination of people who create their own eco-system of anger and unhappiness. '

'Approach Considine's brilliant directorial debut with caution. It's a pitiless, fearsome beast that will hammer you in the gut, hard. And Olivia Colman will blow you away.'

'It's the most painfully violent slice of British realism I've seen since Gary Oldman's Nil by Mouth'

'Considine – a photographer before he became an actor – makes a heartfelt but controlled start to a new career here.'

' a provincial version of Gary Oldman's Nil by Mouth, in which volcanically angry men hand on misery to men, to children, and to the women they are meant to love. It's hard to watch at times, though made with an intensity and artfulness you never for a moment doubt.'

'With this impassioned and unrelentingly bleak directorial debut, Paddy Considine reveals himself as a strong director of actors'

'The characters are trapped, suffocated, pushed through a story that gives them very little room or time to figure themselves out, and that finally turns their feelings into the wan stuff of fable.'

'More British miserablism but well acted'