Fresh
The British do kitchen-sink realism extremely well; they also have a nice way with black comedy. It's rare, however, to see the two as wickedly combined as they are in Down Terrace.
Kate Taylor, Globe and Mail
Down Terrace
You're only as good as the people you know.
2009 · 1h 29m · R
Action, Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Ben Wheatley
Overview
After serving jail time for a mysterious crime, Bill and Karl get out of jail and become preoccupied with figuring out who turned them in to the police. On top of that, the "family business" is on the rocks, and the motley crew of criminals who operate out of Down Terrace aren't feeling terribly trusting of one another. It might look like an ordinary house, but at Down Terrace, the walls are closing in..
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
85%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A low-budget effort by British director Ben Wheatley, Down Terrace is an enjoyably nasty piece of business about a down-market sort of underworld clan.
Jason Anderson, Toronto Star
Fresh
A dark and hilarious thwomping of the whole miserablist British gangster genre.
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
Fresh
Its litany of outrageous abuses and horrible crimes, as it careens from delicately phrased dinner-table insults to old ladies murdered in the street, is often gaspingly, ridiculously funny.
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com
Fresh
A grimly amusing portrait of a closed system in which the pressure is building to an explosion.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
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