It's at once talky yet emotionally remote, and while posing a risky set of questions about sexual abuse, power and relationships, the experience is an unsatisfactory and draining slog.

| May 11, 2020

It's a difficult film, and at times an ambiguous one. And appropriately so, because it's Una's film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 11, 2020

Una is a film of seismic shocks built to make an audience squirm. Mission accomplished.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 11, 2020

After two hours you've caught the film's own fidgets, as it searches vainly for movements of the heart in movements of the action and movie crew.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 11, 2020

The two actors' timing is marvelous. They salvage the force of the play's splintered dialogue.

| Mar 8, 2018

[Rooney Mara's] completely compelling.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 2, 2017

This is a film that could easily divide opinion along gender lines. What everyone will agree on is that it raises troubling but important questions.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 20, 2017

These are not easy people to understand, nor to watch unravel, but they are urgent, complicated, captivating characters.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 20, 2017

Diving right into brutal, ugly subject matter, "Una" is tough to watch but worth it.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 19, 2017

The film's most stylistic gestures all feel like transparent attempts to disguise the blatant, inherent theatricality.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 7, 2017

The film is meant to be a negotiation of what that long-ago relationship was, and it is that. But in our reality of pervasive sexual iniquity, it also feels an awful lot like a litany of self-serving excuses for pedophilic behavior.

| Oct 6, 2017

Great actors Ben Mendelsohn and Rooney Mara do their best to elevate the frustrating Una, but their director doesn't seem to understand what he has in these two performers.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 6, 2017

Una's raw, deeply discomfiting dance between obsession and exploitation isn't easy to watch by any metric; they make it hard to look away.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 6, 2017

Una is an inquiry into the complicated bond between a predator and his prey. Yet Harrower does not play monsters and victims.

| Oct 5, 2017

[Ms. Mara and Mr. Mendelsohn's] performances are tightly focused and unflinching; too bad they are surrounded by a lot of heavy-handed, poorly aimed cinematic showing off.

| Oct 5, 2017

Mara and this story both deserve better.

| Oct 4, 2017

Una isn't ultimately a strong enough film to do justice to its incredibly disturbing subject matter.

| Oct 4, 2017

The film gives Una a little more agency, but director Benedict Andrews often invalidates such empowerment.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 2, 2017

They just about make it work.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 6, 2017

Outstanding central performances from Rooney Mara and Ben Mendelsohn can't quite ease the tricky transition from stage to screen of this uncomfortable drama by David Harrower.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 3, 2017