- MOVIE
- 07:30 AM, May 03
this looks dated and clunky, like a drawn-out episode of Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected on TV, and the direction doesn't have Softley's usual driveby Peter Bradshaw [The Guardian ]
the whole mystery feeling pointlessby Rich Cline [Shadow on the Wall ]
driven by an obsessive desire to adapt Sebastien Japrisot's 1962 novel, writer-director Iain Softley ('The Wings of the Dove') settled for a modest budget which constrains his elegant styleby Nigel Floyd [Time Out London ]
awfully familiar and entirely predictableby Allan Hunter [Daily Express ]