Once Rufus Norris's film gets going, it quickly reveals itself as a vibrant, almost revolutionary work.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 18, 2016

What starts out like a documentary soon morphs into something quite odd but strangely compelling, a social commentary of sorts about everyday people confronting a shocking and monstrous reality close to home.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 17, 2016

All in all, a brilliant piece of work.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 7, 2016

The film is adapted from a stage play, and it shows in every frame.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 21, 2016

London Road is a commanding, at times hypnotic experience.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 19, 2016

Truth be told, London Road, is a musical unlike any other and lead Olivia Coleman is a first-rate artistic chameleon worthy of being noticed...

| Sep 18, 2016

"London Road" comes across as no more than tabloid karaoke.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 15, 2016

Here, as onstage, the musical stylization of every conversational line - with pauses, inflections and imperfections left precisely intact - transmutes the mundane into the unexpectedly poetic.

| Sep 15, 2016

The film overstates its point about the suffering of the prostitutes versus the residents who treat them like a threat to property values. It's a salient argument, but the movie delivers it so stridently that it undoes the musical's better moments.

| Sep 9, 2016

These are the sorts of choices that a stage director makes when he is adapting a dark modern musical for film and has technique but no actual vision. It's toolkit filmmaking.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 9, 2016

Mesmerizing.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 8, 2016

Once you get used to the film's most potent strategy ... it takes on the cadence of hypnotic poetry, a Greek chorus that picks out a billowing unease that only begins to spread following a trial verdict that was meant to bring closure.

| Sep 8, 2016

An ungainly yet strangely captivating oddity, "London Road" snags your attention from the get-go in the manner of any razor-edge experiment: By making you wonder, what on earth?

| Sep 8, 2016

In the end, it all feels about as cohesive and compelling as having a bunch of strangers who sound like Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins loudly hum the headlines from their local police blotter in your ear.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 8, 2016

It's a constant grin-conjuring marvel.

| Original Score: A- | Sep 7, 2016

[A] curious, awkward, intriguing work.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 30, 2015

London Road is an exotic beast arising out of an awkward menage a trois made up of theatre, music and dramatised documentary.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 23, 2015

The media criticism is wan, and the social commentary scolding. Worst of all, the film's many disappointments include the reproduction of the very thing it criticizes so heavy-handedly.

| Original Score: 40/100 | Sep 12, 2015

As gripping onscreen as it was onstage, London Road remains a work of great finesse and originality.

| Aug 14, 2015

I can't comment on the transfer of London Road from one medium to another. The film, though, is nothing short of a triumph.

| Jul 9, 2015