“Daldry has no idea how to reconcile the mischievous, boys’ adventure spirit with his needlessly prolonged sequences of police brutality and child abuse. The violence is all out of proportion to the tone of the story, and I daresay I’ve never seen an entire village burnt to the ground to so little affect in a film before. Even the villagers don’t seem to mind.” – Movie Mezzanine, 10/09/2015