Avis Metacritic

London Road was a mighty success on stage. Now it is a unique triumph on the movie screen.

It’s enthralling and haunting.

As pop sociology, London Road doesn’t delve terribly deep, repeating the same simple observations (principally: people are self-interested) over and over. As a nearly avant-garde musical, however, it’s a constant grin-conjuring marvel.

As gripping onscreen as it was onstage, London Road remains a work of great finesse and originality.

The film doesn't simply work, it trumps expectation and lingers long in the mind.

All cast and crew do an impressive job in making this unlikely proposition such an engaging, thought-provoking and darkly funny watch.

It can feel as if London Road is making the same point throughout, and in the same way – some thematic depth might have added bolster to the film’s dazzling artistic heft.

An artistic spin on tragedy that’s deft, witty, very well-acted, and more diverting than it is profound.

There’s an over-compensatory fussiness to its most elaborate formal conceits, with the gradual shifting of the pic’s palette from desaturated December grays to iridescent oil-pastel tones a crude symbolic device.

London Road, on stage and celluloid, is an experiment likely to fall flat outside of the most devoted of cinephiles (and theatergoers), but an exciting one nonetheless, even if only for its boldness.