...the film boasts a promising opening half hour that's slowly but surely squandered...

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 29, 2009

For two thirds of the film, Hide plays as David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino-lite and not those filmmakers as they are today but as they were in, say, 1994.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jun 26, 2009

It's a good deal too stagey to work as a thriller, but the location shooting on desolate mud-flats is resonant and the twist has a sick verve. Addictive stuff.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 5, 2009

Moody, minimalist and well-observed this is a quirky low-budget triumph for director Marek Losey.

| Jun 5, 2009

It's all given a much-needed shot of credibility by the strength of the writing and the subtlety of the directing. Losey is a talent to watch, and 'The Hide' makes for one hell of a Hollywood calling card.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 5, 2009

Every time you think you've got The Hide pegged, and marked it down as one of those small British films, it twists out of reach. A play adaptation that exceeds boundaries and defies expectations.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 5, 2009

Marek Losey's thriller The Hide is a macabre gem. It's a crude but enthralling duel with shades of Peter Schaffer's Sleuth. Shades too of Hitchcock's Rope.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 5, 2009

A claustrophobic, tense, ultra-low-budget British film with a neat final twist.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 5, 2009

A beguiling thriller which draws its considerably grisly strength from a first class script.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 5, 2009

The Hide is a modestly scaled but cleverly written chamber piece.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 5, 2009

An enjoyably dark, sharply written drama with strong performances from its two leads.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 4, 2009