| Release Date | Feb 05, 2010 |
| Rating | Not Rated |
| Summary | Sure to be one of the cinematic events of the year, RED RIDING is a mesmerizing neo-noir epic based on factual events and adapted for the screen by Tony Grisoni (FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS) from David Peace's electrifying series of novels. An official selection of the Telluride, New York, Chicago and AFI Festivals, and acclaimed by critics an eminent accomplishment, the trilogy follows several characters in intertwining storylines united by the horror wrought by the "Yorkshire Ripper," a serial killer who terrorized northwest England in the 1970s and '80s.
The three films are directed by three notable filmmakers--Julian Jarrold (BRIDESHEAD REVISITED), Academy-Award(R)-winner James Marsh (MAN ON WIRE) and Anand Tucker (SHOPGIRL). Each boasts a stellar British cast that includes Andrew Garfield (THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS), Sean Bean (LORD OF THE RINGS), Paddy Considine (DEAD MAN'S SHOES), Rebecca Hall (VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA), and Peter Mullan (TRAINSPOTTING). RED RIDING - 1974 (Directed by Julian Jarrold) centers on a rookie journalist, Eddie Dunford (Andrew Garfield), whose investigation of a series of child abductions and murders leads him to suspect that there's a terrifying connection between the perpetrators and the upper echelons of Yorkshire power. (105 min.) --© IFC |
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 Piggott’s and Jobson’s searches converge for a moving conclusion to a unique and rewarding multi-part film experience.
Feb 02, 2010
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 The fact that the films hang together at the brink of incoherence is a credit to the assembled acting talent. Rebecca Hall and Maxine Peake deserve note, oases in this nasty, masculine world.
Feb 02, 2010
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In terms of sheer nightmarish scope and top-tier acting, it's more assuredly constructed and bravely dire than anything Hollywood's had to offer the genre in quite some time.
Feb 03, 2010
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The Red Riding Trilogy mixes cynicism and sarcasm, pandering to the naiveté market no differently than Brick and Zodiac...
Feb 03, 2010
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Simply by dint of the transfer to film, you lose a raft of excoriating details.
Feb 03, 2010
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The difficulty shows in organizing four novels into three independent, cross-referential films, for Tony Grisoni's 'Red Riding Trilogy' scripts leave loose ends.
Feb 03, 2010
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a bad dream that you don't want to end.
Feb 04, 2010
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Made-for-TV Brit crime-drama trilogy set against the true-life search for "The Yorkshire Ripper" falls short of its many impressive parts.
Feb 04, 2010
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Reduced to bare description, its desperate dames and crooked cops resemble the stuff of Noir 101, but the series owes more to the moral murk of James Ellroy’s L.A. and the civic spiderweb of The Wire than conventional thrillers.
Feb 04, 2010
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Direction of all three films is no more than workmanlike, which isn't surprising since they were originally made for British television.
Feb 05, 2010
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| Genres | Horror, Suspense/Thriller |
| Stars | Tony Grisoni, Andrew Garfield, David Morrissey, Paddy Considine, James Fox, Sean Bean |
| Director | Julian Jarrold, James Marsh, Anand Tucker |
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| Studio | IFC Films |
| Review Count | 21 |
| Positive | 16 |
| Negative | 5 |
| Recent | 0 |
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