Red Road is more than a view into the filmmaker that Arnold would and will become. It stands alone, by any comparison, as a difficult, great film.

| Feb 20, 2024

...an erratic yet mostly rewarding debut...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 29, 2020

I firmly believe Andrea Arnold has directed Red Road in a responsible and appropriately complex fashion, but holy hell it sticks hard into the heart.

| Original Score: 9/10 | May 22, 2019

Despite some elemental flaws in logic and plausibility, this is a tense and potent film at times that hints at the sort of greatness that we can find to a greater degree in Ms. Arnold's other works, Wasp and Fish Tank.

| Original Score: 70/100 | Jul 13, 2012

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

No drab stone is left unturned

| Aug 27, 2009

Three-fifths of a great film, this stylish, Glasgow-based, Danish-inspired stalker drama does not deliver on its promise.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 22, 2008

Sets a chilling downer mood that gets under your skin like few films ever do.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 14, 2008

Ancorado pelas performances complexas de Dickie e Curran, o filme traz a diretora estreante Andrea Arnold como uma revelação a ser observada com atenção nos próximos anos.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 8, 2008

Unfortunately, its superb performances and assured camerawork are overwhelmed by dubious psychology and a clichéd climax.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 26, 2007

A brilliantly conceived thriller that keeps us guessing right up to the very end, Red Road intrigues but frustrates by its slow development and often incomprehensible Scottish dialogue

| Oct 5, 2007

A strange sort of map of the city [is] spread across these fragmented cubes of visual information. And there's also the metaphorical map of the characters' lives, where they're coming from and where they're going.

Full Review | Sep 20, 2007

I like that you're never sure where this road is going to lead.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 9, 2007

Like the Peeping Tom-paranoia of similar recent films Disturbia and Civic Duty, this finely crafted debut feature by Scottish writer/director Andrea Arnold packs a wallop.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 29, 2007

Red Road is an atmospheric little thriller made up of equal parts paranoia, loneliness and anxiety.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 29, 2007

The glacially paced film is tersely episodic, and scenes are thrown onto the screen like jagged bits of raw meat that have been torn from a bone.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 28, 2007

It's a jarring sensation, for a thriller not to be about the chase, or the mysterious force of evil lurking in the shadows, but about an intangible gulf dividing two people occupying the same room.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 27, 2007

Though it's paced as a thriller, the film ultimately emerges as a haunting exploration of how grief can weigh on us, and the depths to which it can drive us.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 22, 2007

An impressive debut that is orchestrated with a deep, underlying tension that never lets us guess what will come.

| Original Score: B | Jun 21, 2007

I couldn't get this film's quiet power out of my mind.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 21, 2007