Rich Cline Shadows on the Wall Oct 10, 2008 3/5

This lively comedy feels like about half a movie, as the inventive Borat-like hilarity runs out of steam after about an hour

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Derek Malcolm London Evening Standard Oct 10, 2008 3/5

Bigga Than Ben is small-scale, episodic and not without its sins of omission. But it looks as if it speaks the truth and is considerably more entertaining and thought-provoking than most of the week's other offerings.

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Chris Hicks Total Film Oct 10, 2008 3/5

It tails off into a confusing ending, but Bigga Than Ben is still honest, funny and provocative enough to wind up Daily Mail and Guardian readers alike.

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Tim Evans Sky Cinema Oct 10, 2008 2/5

Where she's less sure is the disintegration of the friendship between Spiker and Cobakka. It's less than convincing and strangely unaffecting because - to be brutally honest - they're both a pair of neo-Nazi gits.

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Tim Robey Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 10, 2008

Still, it's an enterprising little movie in its location shooting, and I warmed to it - an overeagerness to entertain is hardly the worst crime.

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Peter Bradshaw Guardian Oct 10, 2008 1/5

Relentlessly crass, smug, charmless and unedifying.

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Wendy Ide The Times (UK) Oct 10, 2008 1/5

It's a depressing, grubby-looking little film with an undercurrent of particularly mean-spirited misogyny. You wonder what Suzie Halewood, the director, was thinking.

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Matt Glasby Film4 Oct 10, 2008 3.5/5

What purports to be a rough guide, slyly but skilfully reveals itself to be a bit of a rough diamond.

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Wally Hammond Time Out Oct 10, 2008 4/6

The performances are spiky, the use of varied locations is fresh and the dialogue - 'How could I ever imagine that I, a Moscow hooligan and Nazi would become a negro lover?' - is warmingly non-exemplary.

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Matthew Turner ViewLondon Oct 9, 2008 2/5

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