Down Terrace
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6.0 out of 10

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  1. CharlotteP
    Apr 13, 2011
    7
    Downbeat, laced with mordant wit and dark as can be: a tale of small criminals in a confined environment, family fortunes, and escalating paranoia between father, mother and son. A slow-growing film which is a million miles away from gormless Guy Richie's Brit-trash flicks; the naturalistic acting and dialogue lend it an almost documentary feel and flashes of often absurd humour lift the grimness. It's one of those unusual films that you may have to watch all the way through before you can make a judgment. Watch it all the way through: it's worth it.… Expand

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Metascore
68 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 14
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  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Walter Addiego
    Feb 17, 2011
    75
    It's hard to decide what's worse about this feral clan residing in Brighton, England: their unspecified criminal enterprises, their penchant for bloody vengeance or their twisted family dynamic.
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  2. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Stan Hall
    Oct 28, 2010
    91
    Down Terrace is so intimate and hilariously offhanded (a hit man shows up for a job pushing his 3-year-old in a stroller) that it is all the more shocking when murderous violence finally erupts about halfway through.
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  3. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    Oct 27, 2010
    91
    A dark and hilarious thwomping of the whole miserablist British gangster genre.
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