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Chatroom


The critical consensus

An episode of Skins or the Inbetweeners has far more insight into the young psyche than any moment in Chatroom, which veers into thriller territory with predictable results.

**(*)(*)(*)Kaleem Aftab, The List, 10/12/2010

Definitely zeigeisty but short on thrills.

**(*)(*)(*)Simon Crook, Empire Online, 20/12/2010

As an attempt to riff on current concerns about cyber-bullying, it’s laughably simplistic.

**(*)(*)(*)Philip Kemp, Total Film, 21/12/2010

It isn't worth the effort.

**(*)(*)(*)Leo Robson, Financial Times, 22/12/2010

Muddled thriller is probably about five years too late.

Paul Greenwood, Evening Times, 22/12/2010

Pantomimic dialogue, stagey sets and underwritten characters render this instantly obsolescent.

*(*)(*)(*)(*)Sukhdev Sandhu, The Telegraph, 23/12/2010

The film finally fizzles into feeble melodrama, with all the power of an old episode of Grange Hill.

**(*)(*)(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 23/12/2010

A movie of utter, unspeakable, hideous awfulness.

*(*)(*)(*)(*)Daily Record, 24/12/2010

Unfortunately this adaptation of Enda Walsh's 2005 stage play persists with its dated concept and further alienates itself from anything approaching credibility with a literal recreation of the chatroom environment as a series of interconnected rooms decked out in the kind of character-defining décor that makes subtle writing and good acting unnecessary.

**(*)(*)(*)Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman, 25/12/2010

Unfortunately the scenes set in the real world (the locations include Camden Lock and the London Zoo) are stilted and unconvincing, while those in the chatrooms become increasingly tedious.

Philip French, The Observer, 26/12/2010

Hideo Nakata, the Japanese horror-meister who made his name with the original Ring, falls steeply from grace with this dismal squib about malefaction on the internet.

*(*)(*)(*)(*)Anthony Quinn, The Independent, 31/12/2010


Features about Chatroom

imogen Poots--A blooming English Rose

James Mottram, The Independent, 10/12/2010

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

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