127 Hours
'frequently dazzling and perpetually surprising solution to an imposing set of formal and creative conundrums. The stakes are not life and death, but rather life and art.'
'A surprisingly fun, effervescent against-the-odds drama that offers an upbeat moral without the usual punishing survival-story clichés. Not for the faint-hearted, mind.'
'There's no doubt about the skill and flair with which Boyle re-imagines Ralston's awful jam, candidly but not too explicitly showing how he got out of it; Franco's performance is winning yet unsentimental and the landscape images conjured by cinematographers Anthony Dod Mantle and Enrique Chediak are tremendous.'
'Any film that relies on one actor to carry the movie demands a lot of its leading man but James Franco applies a youthful exuberance that makes him so watchable it's all viewers could do not to blink. This ought to be his breakthrough role and will be a strong contender for award nominations.'
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