[Hamer] shows a fluency with noir's shadowy visual vocabulary, but what really links this to the genre is its sense of haunting regret and lost opportunity.
– J. R. Jones,
Chicago Reader,
18 Oct 2008
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A real gem.
– Dave Calhoun,
Time Out,
18 Oct 2008
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This is a mostly forgotten gem.
– Joel Brown,
Boston Globe,
9 Jan 2009
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A resolutely downbeat - remarkably so for Ealing Studios - account of a day in the life of Bethnal Green...
– Stephen Garrett,
Time Out,
17 Nov 2011
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Hamer's artful and iconoclastic film mixes a day in the life of a working-class family with a startling prison-break melodrama.