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Legend of Barney Thomson, The (15)

Legend of Barney Thomson, The (15)

Comedy, Crime

Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of the serial killer.


The critical consensus

Merrily gruesome black comedy.

***(*)(*)Simon Crook, Empire Online, 20/07/2015

Some fun performances, but that’s about it.

David Jenkins Little White Lies, 24/07/2015

Ray Winstone stars in Robert Carlyle’s capable directorial debut that has some smart touches and a scene-stealing Emma Thompson.

***(*)(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 23/07/2015

By far its most vivid presence, Thompson steals the movie.

***(*)(*)Geoffrey MacNab, The Independent, 24/07/2015

Carlyle has worked with enough great directors to know how to frame his home city in stylish and unconventional ways, but in terms of the plot, tone and performances, whatever he’s going for doesn’t translate into the macabre laughs its jokily violent premise demands.

**(*)(*)(*)Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman, 25/07/2015

Robert Carlyle’s directorial debut fails to hit the funny bone, with only Emma Thompson’s foul-mouthed matriarch supplying the laughs.

**(*)(*)(*)Jonathan Romney, The Observer, 26/07/2015

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

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