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6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80The GuardianCath ClarkeThe GuardianCath ClarkeThis is not social realism in the style of Ken Loach, but it is a film with a strong sense of outrage. Some might find it relentlessly bleak.
- 70Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayLos Angeles TimesNoel MurrayMcGregor has a good command of horror’s visual and sonic cues.
- 70Film ThreatHunter LanierFilm ThreatHunter LanierFor the most part, Gwen achieves what it sets out to do. It surrounds you in scenic hopelessness and lets you stew in it until you’re done, or Gwen’s done. By the end of this movie, somebody’s definitely done.
- 63Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreGwen has the tenor of a spooky folk Welsh folk legend and the grasping, gasping punch of an Industrial Revolution parable.
- 60VarietyGuy LodgeVarietyGuy LodgeApproach the film with managed genre expectations, however, and there’s much to admire (and duly shiver over) in its formidable, stormcloud-hued atmospherics, low-simmer storytelling and a particularly fine, unaffected breakout performance by teenage actress Eleanor Worthington-Cox in the testing title role.
- 40The Observer (UK)Simran HansThe Observer (UK)Simran HansAs a genre exercise, the film starts promisingly enough, contrasting claustrophobic, dimly lit interiors with atmospheric wides of the landscape composed like moody paintings. Worthington-Cox is compelling, by turns twitchy, tentative, stoic and bold. Still, something isn’t clicking.