Alex MacKeith’s suitably spare script deftly creates a suspenseful atmosphere.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 9, 2025

Bolstered -saved, perhaps- by incredible performances who chew up a script that needed a little silly camp to turn this into something more than a diverting, half-watched late night thriller stuck in the 1am slot on terrestrial 온라인카지노추천

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 4, 2024

Takes a while to get going but this neo-noir grows more engaging once it gets into gear. Daryl McCormack holds his own against veterans Richard E. Grant + Julie Delpy.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 22, 2023

McCormack, Grant and Delpy waltz with flair in this stylish if unoriginal slow-burn thriller. Best consumed with a large glass of red wine and one’s tongue in one’s cheek.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 12, 2023

Not quite a bestseller [...] but definitely not airport fiction either.

| Dec 2, 2023

Although the hero of the piece is ostensibly Sommers, played with subtle shades of Tom Ripley by Good Luck to You Leo Grande’s McCormack, the standout, inevitably, is Grant, who’s on fire here as the domineering patriarch.

| Nov 15, 2023

The Lesson manages good which is damning with faint praise, because it could have been great.

| Nov 2, 2023

… takes its sweet time to get to the really juicy content, but it’s so very entertaining once it kicks in that the restlessness of the build-up is worth it.

| Original Score: 15/20 | Oct 27, 2023

The film results in tremendous entertainment. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 5, 2023

Troughton’s film is an overheated, overly theatrical melodrama...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 29, 2023

Despite an intriguing first half, The Lesson can’t quite keep up with its own ambitions. There’s much to admire here – namely the performances – but the ending leaves you wanting more. Make of that what you will.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 28, 2023

Director Alice Troughton and writer Alex MacKeith over-egg pretty much everything, leaving the story feeling slightly unconnected. But the sinister vibe is terrific.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 26, 2023

Add in a tantalising score by Isobel Waller-Bridge and crystal clear cinematography from Anna Patarakina, and this beautiful British film makes you want to open a bottle of red wine and a mature cheddar.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 26, 2023

... A movie that loves its actors and bounces buoyantly from scene to scene on the thrilling chemistry they provide.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 25, 2023

There are some witty lines but the plot doesn’t veer far from its well-trodden path.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 25, 2023

The feature debut from accomplished 온라인카지노추천 director Alice Troughton is a neatly atmospheric piece...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 24, 2023

The title of The Lesson reveals little about its plot and likewise, this film noir maintains its mystery throughout, maintaining ambiguity right to the very end on who exactly is schooling who.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 22, 2023

As a scratchy string quartet for the four actors, it continues to work surprisingly well – you might hand it back with a B+ in that department. But as a storytelling assignment, it droops little by little into the C zone.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 22, 2023

Grant’s patrician hamminess is mildly entertaining (for a while), but Delpy’s talents are largely wasted on a rubbish Machiavellian subplot.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 21, 2023

If you’re ready to accept it as glorified pulp fiction, Alice Troughton’s film might keep you moderately entertained, but it’s too far-fetched to go higher than that.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 21, 2023