Piper is a woman with something to say in this strange, sometimes darkly comic, movie.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 10, 2024

A tense trip to the cinema...However, it is also a reminder of why many of us go to the cinema in the first place. Its a story that challenges your perceptions of the way we live

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 2, 2022

A distorted mirror of what it means to be a woman, mother and a professional in the 21st century. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 20, 2022

Rare Beasts doesn't just turn the romcom genre on its head -- flipping every cliche into a question, a challenge, a demand for something different -- it digs deep into the very notions of feminism, misogyny, love, and happiness.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 15, 2021

Piper's writing and acting are extraordinary - her physical insecurities are laid bare as she fully explores Mandy's mass of contradictions - at times confident and powerful and at times excruciatingly insecure and anxious.

| Oct 9, 2021

Rare Beasts tries a little too hard to be the opposite of a typical romantic comedy, but its brazen and often-vulgar attempts at being original end up working well for the story, more often than not.

| Sep 5, 2021

Billie Piper's directorial debut breathes anarchy into the spaces of the rom-com - the result is a daring film that isn't afraid to be ugly, or even bestial.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 26, 2021

Rare Beasts is a look into broken people attempting to find love and acceptance, at the cost of their dignity. It seems to be a commentary regarding how alike so many of us are in our insecurities under the weight of toxic society.

| Aug 23, 2021

Rare Beasts is a mostly terrible movie, but if you can somehow look beyond all the awkward things in it -- not an easy task, I admit -- it does show that Piper has a potentially interesting voice as a filmmaker.

| Aug 20, 2021

Piper's film is listed as a comedy, but it goes way deeper than that. I love that the film has something to say about life.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Aug 20, 2021

Rare Beasts [is] a movie that speaks to womenkind on a visceral level but also contains a universal message about knowing your value and refusing to shrink it down to suit others.

| Aug 20, 2021

[Rare Beasts] is meant to be funny but after a while, it just feels flat and often mean spirited.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 20, 2021

Billie Piper proves she has the directorial chops to go along with her excellent performance in Rare Beasts. Unfortunately, the script leaves something to be desired.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 19, 2021

Debutant director Piper has crafted a very artful (there are some particular clever, evocative and provocative uses of framing and internal monologues on display here), darkly witty and thought-provoking film.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 19, 2021

Rare Beasts has audacity on its side. It is confrontational in its treatment of the form-perhaps we'll call it a non rom com-and its characters, who are almost as disconnected as the storytelling.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 19, 2021

It's uncensored, honest, and crude. It's relatable, deplorable, and hilarious. And it's a singular vision of emotional schizophrenia.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 18, 2021

It's not a tidy effort, but Piper's ambition is something to behold, using her screen time to hammer on the senses and reach hidden areas of shame with a furious picture.

| Original Score: B | Aug 18, 2021

Piper is endearingly human and messy as Mandy, and her film includes interesting and surreal touches. Chaos abounds,but in the end, Mandy's mother love proves stronger than any challenge or even the most unhinged storyline.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Aug 17, 2021

Writer/director, and star Billie Piper's cheeky take on modern relationships is funny and sweet if not especially ground-breaking.

| Aug 16, 2021

It's prickly and wobbly and doesn't go down easily, but that feels appropriate for a story which seeks to thread the needle of dating in the 21st century.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 29, 2021