Franklyn is wonky and self-defeating: there are lots of gauche moments. Still, it's entertaining, and commendable for its strangeness.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 6, 2009

An admirably non-formulaic drama, which manages to reconcile the opposed British film traditions of contemporary, realistic, low-key character drama with eccentric, flamboyant, Gothic fantasy. It certainly marks out McMorrow as a talent to watch.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 27, 2009

'Franklyn' has conceptual boldness and visual imagination that set it apart from the pack.

| Original Score: 3/6 | Feb 27, 2009

It's a convoluted piece of storytelling that repays more on a visual level than on a logical one. But you can't fault its ambition and imagination.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 27, 2009

He is aiming high. And yet, to use a recondite and specialist critical term, this film is massively up itself.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 27, 2009

The spiralling plot lines slowly weave together with real dexterity, resulting in a payoff that's as unexpected as it is satisfying. A cracking sci-fi brainteaser.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 27, 2009

It takes a quarter of the movie's duration to start detecting its drift, another quarter to start caring. The fantastications have a stronger wallop than the realism.

| Feb 27, 2009

Allow that director Gerald McMorrow's feature debut shows ambition in fusing psychodrama, fantasy and metropolitan romance. Sadly, coherence and comprehensibility have been left for dead.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 27, 2009

You have to applaud the glittering visual assurance of Brit writer/director Gerald McMorrow's feature debut, even as your ears curl at his script's adolescent whiffle.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 27, 2009

McMorrow is clearly an intriguing and talented British director but Franklyn is almost impossible to follow, thus wasting the talents of the good cast trying their best to make sense of it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 27, 2009

An impressive, if flawed, one-off.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 27, 2009

A clever idea that could have worked as a novella, the urban-fantasy-cum-sci-fier Franklyn doesn't cut it by the bigscreen rulebook.

| Oct 22, 2008