The script by Diablo Cody is a real gem, painful and darkly funny throughout.

~ Donald Munro -

The script by Diablo Cody is a real gem, painful and darkly funny throughout.

~ Donald Munro -

Making a movie about a suffering mother who cannot admit that her tether has snapped is a brave endeavor

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Making a movie about a suffering mother who cannot admit that her tether has snapped is a brave endeavor

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The story is so predictable you wait for that running-through-the-spray on the beach scene with dread and could choose the girly ballads on the soundtrack with pinpoint accuracy.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

A gripping, exhilarating rollick through a medieval wasteland.

~ Merlin Harries -

A gripping, exhilarating rollick through a medieval wasteland.

~ Merlin Harries -

Pure, stripped-down bleakness, both in the desaturated drabness of its appearance and in the last-days essentialism of its themes.

~ Anton Bitel -

Pure, stripped-down bleakness, both in the desaturated drabness of its appearance and in the last-days essentialism of its themes.

~ Anton Bitel -

This big-screen epic is immersive less for its binocular vistas than for their impossibly grand scale

~ Anton Bitel -

This big-screen epic is immersive less for its binocular vistas than for their impossibly grand scale

~ Anton Bitel -

What finally raises the film above its somewhat programmatic, fight-the-power formula is its willingness to provide a believable context for the abuse.

~ The Exile -

What finally raises the film above its somewhat programmatic, fight-the-power formula is its willingness to provide a believable context for the abuse.

~ The Exile -

Construed by some as a blatant feminist sympathy trip, Theron's performance is a tour de force, picking up Jenkins's contentious baton with extreme gusto.

~ David Stanners -

Construed by some as a blatant feminist sympathy trip, Theron's performance is a tour de force, picking up Jenkins's contentious baton with extreme gusto.

~ David Stanners -

Cliches are dropped like depth charges into the belly of the life.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Cliches are dropped like depth charges into the belly of the life.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Baroque-n-roll does not begin to describe the petrol-headed delirium on offer here.

~ Anton Bitel -

Baroque-n-roll does not begin to describe the petrol-headed delirium on offer here.

~ Anton Bitel -

It is exciting, sentimental, fast moving and utter twaddle.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

It is exciting, sentimental, fast moving and utter twaddle.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The politics are basic if not base and do not fulfil a rich man’s lunch hour.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The politics are basic if not base and do not fulfil a rich man’s lunch hour.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Damon has a problem playing down-and-outs. He's so clean cut, three days' growth doesn't fool anyone.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Damon has a problem playing down-and-outs. He's so clean cut, three days' growth doesn't fool anyone.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Schizophrenic in its approach and vicious in its intent.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Schizophrenic in its approach and vicious in its intent.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

A journey you have never travelled before

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

A journey you have never travelled before

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

A standard formulaic thriller, dependent upon technological gizmos, buddy-buddy performances and a totally unbelievable storyline.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

A standard formulaic thriller, dependent upon technological gizmos, buddy-buddy performances and a totally unbelievable storyline.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Makes no secret about trying to be Chinatown, but surprisingly doesn't come off too badly.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Makes no secret about trying to be Chinatown, but surprisingly doesn't come off too badly.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Smith delivers a characteristically subtle performance in a role which could easily have been played without a hint of self-awareness.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Smith delivers a characteristically subtle performance in a role which could easily have been played without a hint of self-awareness.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A movie like this should be fun, or disturbing. To be neither means that two-and-a-half hours watching Reeves attempt a purposeful expression and Pacino play the diabolical charm card is a long time waiting for cheesy effects and naked bods.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

A movie like this should be fun, or disturbing. To be neither means that two-and-a-half hours watching Reeves attempt a purposeful expression and Pacino play the diabolical charm card is a long time waiting for cheesy effects and naked bods.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Before getting excited, remember the title. Nothing is as it seems and nothing makes sense.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Before getting excited, remember the title. Nothing is as it seems and nothing makes sense.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Charlize Theron is electrifying

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Charlize Theron is electrifying

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The plot is borrowed from a Sexton Blake penny dreadful, with fresh gags and terrific performances.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The plot is borrowed from a Sexton Blake penny dreadful, with fresh gags and terrific performances.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Bombshell is a finely crafted film which benefits from one of the best acting ensembles of the year.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Bombshell is a finely crafted film which benefits from one of the best acting ensembles of the year.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The pace squeezes your windpipe; the action pulverises your senses; the plot double crosses your preconception

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The pace squeezes your windpipe; the action pulverises your senses; the plot double crosses your preconception

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -