This superbly acted coming-of-age Brit flick isn't exactly what you'd call a comedy - but it's a helluva set.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Feb 29, 2020

Jellyfish offers little catharsis in its climax; just fizzling out means that the film is easily forgettable, but Liv Hill won't be.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 27, 2019

As for Hill, she has genuinely funny bones and her outstanding talent once again shines through.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 21, 2019

The sentimental heart of the film is a packet of Space Invaders. There's not a single more effective nod to endearingly naff Britishness than that.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 21, 2019

The first-time feature maker still has a bit to learn.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 18, 2019

Just 16 when she shot it, [Hill] carries a tough film about difficult subject matter- mental illness, sexual exploitation - with the sort of matter-of-fact authority that's just right for a character forced to get on with a terrible situation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 18, 2019

Jellyfish - moving, provocative, often hilarious - is quite a debut. Gardner and Hill. Remember those names.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 17, 2019

Though Hill's performance enlivens an overwritten script, her jokes never quite land, undermining the film's basic premise.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 17, 2019

Jellyfish is a familiar but compassionately drawn portrait of hardscrabble lives, centred by a terrific performance by Liv Hill.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 16, 2019

There is real cinematic promise...and I look forward to seeing more from everyone involved.

| Feb 16, 2019

Yet Hill's performance of wounded silence and pressure-cooker rage is so galvanising that all objections fade and she carries the film alone, right through to its admirably downbeat conclusion.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 15, 2019

It's anchored by a strong performance from BIFA-nominated Liv Hill and a few downright hilarious punchlines, though the film suffers from an underdeveloped cast of supporting characters and some over-the-top dialogue.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 15, 2019

Everything else in this film pales into insignificance when we're faced with one of the best breakout performances I think I've ever seen in Liv Hill.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 15, 2019

Some nice performances, but falls to pieces under light scrutiny.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 14, 2019

A calling card for everyone involved, especially Hill, who always shows the flickers of Sarah's inner life, even as her character feigns blank, not bovvered.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 14, 2019

It's a compelling story with wonderfully drawn characters and a world that carries weight.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 13, 2019

It never condescends. It never condemns. It keeps its gaze on the characters, their colours, and their refusal to take on, chameleon-like, the drab hues of their environment.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 13, 2019

Filmmaker James Gardner and gifted lead actress Liv Hill make this the kind of movie you can't look away from.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 12, 2019

A perfectly realised social realist work that feels like an unlikely Ken Loach reimagining of a Judd Apatow movie.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 12, 2019

A powerful drama which hinges on a stunning breakout performance by Liv Hill.

| Feb 11, 2019