Fresh
Fish Tank may begin as a patch of lower-class chaos, but it turns into a commanding, emotionally satisfying movie, comparable to such youth-in-trouble classics as The 400 Blows.
David Denby, New Yorker
Fish Tank
Live, love and give as good as you get.
2009 · 2h 3m · Not Rated
Drama
Directed by
Andrea Arnold
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Fish Tank
Overview
Fifteen-year-old Mia is in a constant state of war with her family and the world around her. When she meets her party-girl mother’s charming new boyfriend Connor, she is amazed to find he returns her attention, and believes he might help her start to make sense of her life.
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91%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A bold new entry in the long-standing British tradition of disquieting social realism.
Ian Buckwalter, NPR
Fresh
The characters are guarded, and as we come to understand them scene by scene, they become ever harder to sort into convenient categories of hero and villain.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Fresh
Writer-director Andrea Arnold, working in British lower-class realism, still finds wondrous moments of connection in Mia's life.
Tom Long, Detroit News
Fresh
Writer-director Andrea Arnold has created something so real and raw, you may come away with a twinge of guilty voyeurism, a sense of peering too closely and impolitely into other people's lives.
David Germain, Associated Press
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