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Eternal Beauty review
Sally Hawkins's enthralling performance doesn't rely on the same old tropes - it stays truthful to psychological reality.
Clarisse Loughrey, The Independent, 1st October 2020Eternal Beauty review
Eternal Beauty is a pleasingly strange and inventive comedy drama.
Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman, 1st October 2020Eternal Beauty review
Directors dealing with mental illness can often make you wince, treating it as an invitation to all manner of visual hammery. Still in his twenties, Roberts is seasoned enough not to follow suit.
Danny Leigh, The Financial Times, 30th September 2020Eternal Beauty review
Craig Roberts' oddball comedy ambitiously tries to portray mental illness from the inside out, but despite a fine cast, it doesn't hold together.
Guy Lodge, Variety, 30th September 2020Eternal Beauty review
A brilliant Sally Hawkins stands atop Craig Roberts' perceptive look at mental illness. Small but beautifully formed.
Ian Freer, Empire, 28th September 2020Eternal Beauty review
Story-wise, there's not a huge amount going on here, but the film soars in its consistently imaginative take on the way Jane views the world and the sense of solidarity it fosters.
Emma Simmonds, The List, 28th September 2020Eternal Beauty review
Craig Roberts returns to the director's chair with the powerful story of a woman with paranoid schizophrenia. Sally Hawkins gives a superb performance in the lead role.
Carmen Paddock, The Skinny, 2nd March 2020Paddington 2 review
When you witness some of the absolute dross that passes for 'family entertainment' these days, it's reassuring to see something as lovingly crafted as this. The next question? Can they do it a third time? Well, that remains to be seen. Meanwhile, this will do very nicely indeed.
Philip Caveney, Bouquets & Brickbats, 12th November 2017Paddington, the hero of Michael Bond's books, may be an undersized Peruvian bear but he packs a warm hug in this family-friendly treat. Taken in by the Brown family (parents played by Hugh Bonneville and Sally Hawkins), Paddington (sweetly voiced by Ben Whishaw) indulges in plenty of extreme marmalade-fun, and a moderately scary run-in with menacing taxidermist Millicent (Nicole Kidman).
Paul Howlett, The Guardian, 5th November 2017