A brutal tale told with an unflinching callousness whilst offering little reward or glory, only twisted revenge.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 18, 2024

“Williams’ reliance on violence doesn’t transgress in ‘Bull,’ it merely toes the line. Imagine what he could do if he really let himself go.”

| Feb 10, 2024

What makes it so watchable, even despite the stomach-churning violence, is Williams’s clever, non-chronological narrative, which layers in the suggestion that all riddles will be answered with one closing knockout revelation.

| Feb 27, 2023

Like the protagonist, this story of revenge is lean, mean and gets straight down to business... Williams’ execution is unflinching and uncompromising.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 12, 2022

Straddling the boundary between gangster movie and slasher film, Bull treads (or stomps) a similar path to that of Dead Man’s Shoes and Kill List – borrowing homegrown revenge from the former, and an incendiary Neil Maskell performance form the latter.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 21, 2022

With a devilishly intelligent move toward the end, the film shows the evil that contaminates the hearts of these criminals. It will hook the viewers without sparing them.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 29, 2022

The screenplay by director Paul Andrew Williams conveys a harrowing atmosphere of dread and despair, but every character is either unsympathetic or thinly sketched, reducing the emotional investment in the potent finale.

| Apr 29, 2022

Gruelling, grim and fantastically violent, Bull is a movie that grabs you right from the gloomy opening scene and doesnt let up until it comes back full circle.

| Apr 13, 2022

A British take on a formula that is miles removed from the Guy Ritchie school of London Underground crime films.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 11, 2022

Grimly efficient but rather repellent and not so much frightening as unsettling.... But you have to admit that, for better or worse, it does quite ably what it sets out to do.

| Original Score: C | Apr 11, 2022

Can’t say I enjoyed it, though given that some people actually seek electric shocks for kicks, no doubt more than a few will savor the different jolts on tap here.

| Apr 8, 2022

A lean, mean ride that wallops you with surprising emotional force at the end. Wow. Just wow.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 7, 2022

Neil Maskell's performance is truly astounding. He inhabits the role of Bull to an increasingly disconcerting extent, communicating a lifetime of hurt and anger even while torturing and killing people.

| Apr 7, 2022

At under ninety minutes, Bull is a fierce and fast ride that pulls no punches when it comes to the violence doled out by and towards its lead character.

| Apr 5, 2022

It’s a nasty little slice of revenge cinema in keeping with themes from Williams’ early days as a filmmaker in the late 2000s.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 4, 2022

An intense, unflinching and riveting crime thriller.

| Apr 2, 2022

Bull isn’t doing anything particularly new, but it manages to forge its own identity by doubling down on eerie, moody atmospherics and a shocking amount of extreme violence.

| Apr 1, 2022

A strong central performance from Neil Maskell gives Bull both its backbone and its heart, delivering enough of an emotional hook to ensure the film never becomes just an orgy of violence.

| Apr 1, 2022

A must for fans of pulpy crime pictures.

| Apr 1, 2022

The film’s rejiggered timeline is a little hard to follow, but the climax swings for the fences and shows an unashamed verve for tale-telling that warms the cockles.

| Mar 31, 2022