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100In his big-screen directing debut, British film maker Danny Boyle demonstrates wit, intelligence and economy of style.
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100This, the debut feature from acclaimed TV director Danny Boyle, is the best British thriller for years, a chilling and claustrophobic heart-stopper centring on a moral dilemma destined to fuel many a dinner party conversation.
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90Shallow Grave, a tar-black comedy that zings along on a wave of visual and scripting inventiveness.
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88Danny Boyle's effective psychological thriller.
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80This clever thriller has the juiced-up, hyperactive feel of a rock video. [07 Mar 1995]
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80This is a fairly accomplished first feature -perky, visually inventive, and unusually nast
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Boyle, MacDonald, and Hodge honed this wonderful coupling of music, visuals, and clever words, as well as a strange affection for toy babies, in their first film.
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75Black comedy and film noir are around one another smartly and wickedly in Danny Boyle's Shallow Grave, a tense, twisty Scottish-made thriller that's going to break out of Glasgow in a big way. [24 Feb 1995]
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75Taken as a whole, Shallow Grave is a reasonably enjoyable (for those captivated by this sort of thing) black comedy/noir thriller that justifies at least a portion of the praise being heaped upon it from overseas.
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75Just sit back, plug in, and enjoy the shocks - so adroitly administered, so sweetly sensational. [24 Feb 1995]
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67Danny Boyle's glittering, deadpan, nihilistic little thriller.
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63There's something in Shallow Grave that is admirable, beyond its obvious display of youthful talent. [24 Feb 1995]
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Smart and unsentimental as it is, Shallow Grave is more than a little forbidding.
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60A sky-high level of misanthropy overwhelms his film in ways that prove more sour than droll, despite the presence of skillful actors and a bizarrely enveloping plot.
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58McGregor is a real charmer, a young Malcolm McDowell with a Scottish lilt; Brain Tufano's photography manages to be both rich and stark at once; Hodge's script has some genuinely arch lines. [03 Mar 1995]
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50All of the materials are in place for a film that might have pleased Orwell. But somehow they never come together.
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50Director Danny Boyle and screenwriter John Hodge (who is a physician!) keep the action spurting forward, but their approach is oblique. We seem to be catching the odds and ends of scenes; it's as if the filmmakers wanted to make a movie in which all the expected high points were skimped.
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50Boyle's characters, too, are young and fresh and promisingly rude - especially McGregor's Alex - but they become less and less interesting as the movie progresses.
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This is exactly the kind of weird, sardonic texture the movie is aiming for - and unfortunately, most of it occurs in the first half of the story.
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50This pitch-black comedy is less lurid than its title, but director Danny Boyle ultimately fritters away his psychologically rich story in a horror-flick finale.
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