It's a tribute to [director] Sophie Hyde's work that these two gals, with tinkling white wine glasses and cackling laughter, become fully engaging women on screen.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 10, 2019

Animals treats its subjects with patience and generosity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 4, 2019

[A] preposterous version of the Irish capital wherein folk who can't hold down barista jobs live in vast Georgian houses, or perform sean-nós in salons surrounded by objects d'art.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 2, 2019

Grainger, typically, yet again, is heroic and delivers everything she can, including myriad expressive looks, some nice physical comedy and a pitch-perfect Dublin accent in an admirable attempt, ultimately fruitless, to breathe life into a corpse.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 2, 2019

Hyde and Unsworth present an unreservedly engaging, beautifully observed and robustly acted dramatic comedy that is only slightly let down by its inability to fully break away from Unsworth's original source material.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 2, 2019

Something, alas, has happened to Unsworth's original vision; it's become slighter and more one-sided.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 2, 2019

The debauchery on screen sometimes feels like an overcompensation for a lack of authenticity.

| Aug 1, 2019

Grainger, so promising for so long, nails this performance with everything she's got, and deserves to have it noticed.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 1, 2019

Well-observed but slightly lacking show of youth in revolt.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 1, 2019

It's a film of fierce female appetites - Tyler's hunger for attention, Laura's longing for literary success, their shared thirst for good times - rather than coy yearnings.

| Aug 1, 2019

Flawed but interesting, kept upright by the steely core of Holliday Grainger's performance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 1, 2019

Booksmart and Lady Bird seem masterpieces in comparison. (The first nearly was one.)

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 31, 2019

Holliday Grainger shines in a funny and feral take on female friendship.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 31, 2019

Grainger is a revelation and Shawkat a rebel in this delightfully defiant celebration of women's imperfections. 
Stick with them through the chaos and you'll be rewarded with an utterly electric tale of female friendship.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 29, 2019

A film about presence, identity and change, Animals is a victorious celebration of life's often unexpected complications.

| Jun 13, 2019

Refreshingly frank and unautocratic about sex, drugs and the uniquely female desire to be free of judgment, Animals dares to love the pair of imperfect friends that lead the way.

| Feb 9, 2019

A highly effective and satisfying journey of self-discovery not because it offers up easy answers or even a perfect happy ending, but rather because it so thoroughly taps into the chaos of reality.

| Original Score: A- | Feb 8, 2019

Think the sharp, brittle millennial observations of novelist Sally Rooney meets the bawdy, female anarchy of Věra Chytilová's Daisies.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 3, 2019

Hyde has forged a wonderful, utterly lived-in film about two women at a crossroads, one that attendees should be breathlessly, excitedly discussing around town, urging everyone else to see immediately.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 30, 2019

Why does the end result feel so inert and contrived, even if it's exceedingly pretty to look at?

| Jan 30, 2019