Vladan Petkovic Cineuropa Aug 14, 2020

The director gives the film a strong personal touch that makes all the difference.

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PJ Nabarro Patrick Nabarro Aug 13, 2019 4/5

The story itself seems to seep out of its own dank air of repression, and the claustrophobic atmosphere makes tangible how dangerous the lives are for all the participants.

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C.J. Prince Way Too Indie Jun 22, 2019

It's a well-crafted thriller, and Marsh does an effective job showing how, on both sides of the law, trust is the hardest thing to find.

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Shaun Munro CineVue Feb 2, 2019 4/5

Likely to be one of the year's best thrillers, Marsh's latest is a beautifully composed, wonderfully acted and thoroughly engrossing film.

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Frank Ochieng SF Crowsnest Nov 12, 2018 3/4

The taut political suspense thriller Shadow Dancer spins a tale of terrorism that works fabulously on the nerves...smart and resourceful enough to play its conflicting confines as sedate yet edgy with underlying tension and betrayal.

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Brian Gibson Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) Dec 27, 2013

Plays slyly with noir; adroitly twists and turns away from easy expectations in its final minutes. This thriller's got one sharp, savage ending. Marsh takes a black-eyed stare out from the gravestone-gray, waning days of the Troubles.

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Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Dec 16, 2013 B

A grim but measured and intelligent art-house slow-burner.

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Robert Roten Laramie Movie Scope Nov 19, 2013 B

The acting in this film is very good. The plot is lean and powerful. It is pretty depressing, but it seems true enough in its depiction of this troubled period of history.

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Jared Eisenstat Film Comment Magazine Nov 4, 2013

By the end, the film shows not only the power of this influence but also its terrible price in an often merciless conflict.

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James Plath Movie Metropolis Sep 3, 2013 6/10

Despite solid performances, a slow first half takes away from this otherwise effective drama about an IRA sympathizer whose life becomes more complicated after she's coerced into spying for MI-5.

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Walter V. Addiego San Francisco Chronicle Jul 22, 2013

The film relies on terse dialogue and boggy colors to create an atmosphere dense with anxiety -- all well handled by director James March.

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Chris Hewitt St. Paul Pioneer Press Jun 27, 2013 3/4

It's absorbing, intelligent and sad.

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Nora Lee Mandel Film-Forward.com Jun 14, 2013 8/10

Themes ripped from today's headlines lend "The Troubles" of Northern Ireland very tense, sobering, contemporary immediacy. . . Riseborough [is] mesmerizing at first sight.

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Ty Burr Boston Globe Jun 14, 2013 2.5/4

A tautly minimalist, occasionally generic study of betrayal and family ties.

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Robin Clifford Reeling Reviews Jun 13, 2013 B-

[Director James Marsh] shows a deft hand with his actors and elicits a notable performance from [Andrea] Riseborough. The production is straightforward on all fronts and catches the bleakness hovering above Belfast under siege.

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Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer Jun 13, 2013 3/4

[Riseborough's] work is indrawn and riveting. It's hard to read the look in her eye, but we never stop trying.

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J. R. Jones Chicago Reader Jun 13, 2013

This British thriller by James Marsh is a little too neatly scripted and tightly edited for my taste, but there are galvanizing performances from Andrea Riseborough... and Clive Owen.

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Bill Goodykoontz Arizona Republic Jun 13, 2013 4/5

These are characters for whom true belief in a cause has probably become impossible; they know how much that costs. Marsh does a compelling job of illustrating that for the rest of us.

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Christine N. Ziemba Paste Magazine Jun 6, 2013 8.4/10

Marsh focuses this slowly simmering drama on more universal themes of family, betrayal and decisions that people make that are both right and wrong at the same time.

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James Kendrick Q Network Film Desk Jun 2, 2013 3/4

a potent, ultimately disheartening slow-burn drama

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