Red Road is more than a view into the filmmaker that Arnold would and will become. It stands alone, by any comparison, as a difficult, great film.

Full Review | Feb 20, 2024

a long, dark and twisted journey..., scrutinising the shadier contours of human loss and guilt like a grainy face on a screen.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2022

...an erratic yet mostly rewarding debut...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 29, 2020

I firmly believe Andrea Arnold has directed Red Road in a responsible and appropriately complex fashion, but holy hell it sticks hard into the heart.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | May 22, 2019

Despite some elemental flaws in logic and plausibility, this is a tense and potent film at times that hints at the sort of greatness that we can find to a greater degree in Ms. Arnold's other works, Wasp and Fish Tank.

Full Review | Original Score: 70/100 | Jul 13, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

No drab stone is left unturned

Full Review | Aug 27, 2009

Three-fifths of a great film, this stylish, Glasgow-based, Danish-inspired stalker drama does not deliver on its promise.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 22, 2008

Sets a chilling downer mood that gets under your skin like few films ever do.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jan 14, 2008

Ancorado pelas performances complexas de Dickie e Curran, o filme traz a diretora estreante Andrea Arnold como uma revelação a ser observada com atenção nos próximos anos.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 8, 2008

Unfortunately, its superb performances and assured camerawork are overwhelmed by dubious psychology and a clichéd climax.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 26, 2007

A brilliantly conceived thriller that keeps us guessing right up to the very end, Red Road intrigues but frustrates by its slow development and often incomprehensible Scottish dialogue

Full Review | Oct 5, 2007

A strange sort of map of the city [is] spread across these fragmented cubes of visual information. And there's also the metaphorical map of the characters' lives, where they're coming from and where they're going.

Full Review | Sep 20, 2007

I like that you're never sure where this road is going to lead.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 9, 2007

Like the Peeping Tom-paranoia of similar recent films Disturbia and Civic Duty, this finely crafted debut feature by Scottish writer/director Andrea Arnold packs a wallop.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 29, 2007

Red Road is an atmospheric little thriller made up of equal parts paranoia, loneliness and anxiety.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 29, 2007

The glacially paced film is tersely episodic, and scenes are thrown onto the screen like jagged bits of raw meat that have been torn from a bone.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 28, 2007

It's a jarring sensation, for a thriller not to be about the chase, or the mysterious force of evil lurking in the shadows, but about an intangible gulf dividing two people occupying the same room.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 27, 2007

Though it's paced as a thriller, the film ultimately emerges as a haunting exploration of how grief can weigh on us, and the depths to which it can drive us.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 22, 2007

An impressive debut that is orchestrated with a deep, underlying tension that never lets us guess what will come.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jun 21, 2007