[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

It's an ambitious, nervy work that occasionally trips over its own stylistic heels, but still proves, as Buzz Lightyear famously discovered, that flying is essentially falling with style.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 23, 2021

This is Piper's first time behind the camera and hopefully not the last.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 23, 2021

These are all compelling ideas that Piper leaps wholeheartedly into - even if she, too, inevitably gets lost in the maze inside Mandy's head.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 21, 2021

It's best forgotten. Move along.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 21, 2021

I found myself gnawing my upper lip with embarrassment, but on the film's behalf, rather than its characters'.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 20, 2021

Rare Beasts is a bold experiment in nerve-jangling confrontation: it has the structure and ingredients of romantic comedy but turns everything on its head.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 20, 2021

I absolutely can't wait to see it again.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 18, 2021

Billie Piper's ambitious, darkly funny directorial debut suggests the arrival of a new filmmaker with a vision, verve and a voice.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 17, 2021