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The Legend of Barney Thomson

The Legend of Barney Thomson (AKA The Long Midnight of Barney Thomson)

2015

Robert Carlyle

Robert Carlyle, Ray Winstone, Emma Thompson, James Cosmo ...

5.4

1,547

Comedy Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of the serial killer.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Cath Clarke Time Out	"'Barney Thomson' isn’t daring enough to make it as cult viewing. Still, the sight of Emma Thompson, wearing old-lady prosthetics and a leopard skin coat (...) is not to be missed (...) Rating: ★★★ (out or 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Robert Carlyle makes a capable directorial debut, serving up this chaotically brutal comedy noir with some very broad gags (...) Emma Thompson gives us a scene-stealing performance (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"Emma Thompson is the true legend in Robert Carlyle's amusing but uneven directorial debut"	NEU
United States	Neil Young The Hollywood Reporter	"[Carlyle] makes a belated big-screen directorial debut with this intermittently droll ensembler, but doesn't yet possess the timing and touch upon which all such farces depend"	NEU
United Kingdom	Simon Crook Empire	"A merrily gruesome black comedy (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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