Ends up feeling more like a treatise on toxic boyfriends than the free-floating exploration of forbidden sexuality that it had first promised.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 19, 2024

Without the two leads, “True Things” doesn’t offer much.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 14, 2022

I can imagine that this cautionary tale will have its supporters, but I found Kate such an infuriating character that it was extremely difficult to sympathise with her.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 12, 2022

A raw and passionate look at the type of love that can be both all-encompassing and destructive, passionate and dangerous.

| Sep 9, 2022

For those of you who miss films made by adults and for adults, films which treat things like sex and loneliness with respect and honesty, True Things isn't to be missed.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 9, 2022

In the end, Wilson and Wootliff make this picture work by emphasizing the desperation and dreariness of Kate’s life, defined by her nagging mother and micro-managing boss.

| Sep 9, 2022

What makes the film’s episodic approach flow is the pulse-sensitive camerawork.

| Sep 8, 2022

An uneasy psychological character study, the film brings the audience tantalisingly close to its protagonist and has them share her experiences of joy, depression and grief.

| Jul 20, 2022

You don’t have to be a glutton for punishment to love Harry Wootliff’s second film, but it will definitely help.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 9, 2022

Poised performances from two leads give this drama real intensity...

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 9, 2022

Wilson (who optioned and developed the source book) engages the audience on a visceral level, her deceptively low-key performance taking us deep inside her character’s dreams, desires and insecurities.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 4, 2022

It does reiterate Wootliff’s fluency in the unvarnished, messy spaces of female desire, operating in a way that doesn’t sacrifice the actual sexiness of her work.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2022

Wootliff and Wilson create a central character who is irrational, sometimes infuriating, but always intensely sympathetic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2022

Wootliff s tenacity and refusal to simplify or spoon-feed the films ambiguous denouement is further proof that she is unreservedly one of the most fearless young filmmakers around,

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2022

That amour fou dynamic is perfectly recognisable from other movies, yet rarely shown from a female point of view.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 31, 2022

True Things is much too easily assimilated into a familiar and dismaying narrative of female attraction to male brutishness. Sometimes truth-telling takes a bit more than putting a finger on the wound and pressing hard.

| Mar 30, 2022

Wilson and Burke give formidably good performances: a woman who desperately wants to give and receive love, and a man who hasn’t the smallest idea what any of that means.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 30, 2022

A flawed but admirable attempt to take the temperature of a dark, modern relationship.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 29, 2022

Another strong addition to the growing sub-genre of stories about people whose lives go to hell when they get involved with Tom Burke.

| Original Score: B | Oct 1, 2021

Despite strong performances from the two leads, the story sometimes feels inert, nothing like the love it wants to show.

| Sep 12, 2021