From the moment those electronic beats of Leftield start pounding on the soundtrack and Boyle’s camera begins racing around the cobbled streets of Edinburgh, the film announces itself as a propulsive thrill ride.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 10, 2024

A sour treat.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 9, 2024

Danny Boyle does wonders with a small budget, and the suave, dense-hued look of his movie stays with you long after the horror has evaporated.

| Sep 7, 2020

The violence in the film, in particular, is briskly and harshly managed, without either half-heartedness or gloating. But a little further along, cogency starts falling apart for good.

| Nov 15, 2017

Danny Boyle's glittering, deadpan, nihilistic little thriller, a nasty Scottish cousin to such amoral specialty films as Pulp Fiction, The Grifters, and The Last Seduction

| Original Score: B- | Sep 7, 2011

A savagely entertaining neo-film noir.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 17, 2001

Class has its place, but some of us prefer our cut-'em-ups a little more lowdown.

| Feb 13, 2001

Brilliantly implicit, relentlessly paced, hilariously dark and underpinned by a central moral dilemma guaranteed to tease long after lights out.

| Jan 1, 2000

The situation is contrived, the relationships unlikely, the characters one-dimensional.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

[The characters] become less and less interesting as the movie progresses.

| Jan 1, 2000

A tight little thriller, filled with exhilarating twists, that quickly establishes its artistic contract with the audience.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Fox, McGregor and Eccleston merely mill around the screen like the kind of living-dead folks we usually see rising from the grave.

| Jan 1, 2000

The three ... especially Fox--do well.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Boyle's cool manner and the performances ultimately ratchet Shallow Grave past the ranks of standard thriller fare.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Since no reasonable person can remotely hope to identity with Juliet, David or Alex, the whole case drops through.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Grabs hold of you in the first few minutes and then refuses to let you go until the bitter, shocking end.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000