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David Thomson, The New Republic: Anyone interested after seeing this film [the 2011 version] should go straight to the 1947 original and the uncanny way in which the steadily decent and amiable Attenborough was so scary. Read more
Variety Staff, Variety: This tends to prove that Britain can turn out a gangster picture as brutal as any Hollywood had devised. Read more
Vadim Rizov, Village Voice: A seedy noir, equal parts concealed-camera atmosphere and tense set pieces. Read more