Edgar Taj

Really well written (same writer as Slow Horses), well cast and performed. Arterton, Petrie, Beard and Davies outstanding. Both hilarious and moving.

Thrilling writing, excellent directing, gripping storytelling, complex characters and engrossing performances from young ensemble cast. BAFTA will struggle when ranking for acting nominations. Best non police procedural drama this year. Will compete with Blue Lights 2 and The Responder 2 for awards

Awful. Can’t remember a worse West End show. Smith did her best, as an A lister, to hold it together but the script, music, lyrics were banal and disengaging. The pseudo documentary techy stuff was a distraction and pointless. If this was meta-irony then it was beyond me. In the repeated rehearsal scenes Smith lines were basically ‘This play is rubbish’. Is that meta-irony? Worse than Wayne Sleep’s Cabaret in the 80s and that’s saying something. Motive and Cue, similar genre, a triumph. Sorry. This is for stage version. Film was better🥴

Just about 3⭐️. Guessing it’s the director’s first feature length. An assemblage of film noir and Hitchcock tropes and caricatures, rammed into 90 mins or so. Just about endurable, as there was some depth of character. Basically- Therese Raquin for wealthy country folk🤷‍♂️

Moving, great casting and performances, not over long/sentimental. Preferred this to stage version as the adult characters were more rounded and less cliche. As heartwarming as original Billy Elliot film.