Movie Review

London to Brighton (2008)

Reviewed by Lisa Schwarzbaum | Feb 13, 2008

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW

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EW's GRADE

C+

Details Limited Release: Feb 08, 2008; Rated: Unrated; Length: 90 Minutes; Genre: Thriller; With: Georgia Groome and Lorraine Stanley

Image credit: Chris Boyce

LONDON TO BRIGHTON This violent tale of a hooker and young runaway on the lam won over British film festival judges, but the verdict here is less sympathetic

A tough-chick prostitute and an 11-year-old runaway in London step into a mess of trouble when a john gets creepy. They fight back, then flee by train to the seaside, pursued by the kind of rough-trade thugs who pursue thrown-away girls in low-life fantasies like this. Writer-director Paul Andrew Williams' unnecessarily hectic debut feature won several British film festival awards, no doubt for its bounty of low-budget stylized violence and blood, as well as its thing for prostitutes and runaways. C+

Originally posted Feb 14, 2008 Published in issue #979 Feb 22, 2008 Order article reprints

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