Black comedy and film noir are around one another smartly and wickedly in Danny Boyle's Shallow Grave, a tense, twisty Scottish-made thriller that's going to break out of Glasgow in a big way. [24 Feb 1995]Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
Taken as a whole, Shallow Grave is a reasonably enjoyable (for those captivated by this sort of thing) black comedy/noir thriller that justifies at least a portion of the praise being heaped upon it from overseas.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Scott Brown
Danny Boyle's glittering, deadpan, nihilistic little thriller.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Janet Maslin
A sky-high level of misanthropy overwhelms his film in ways that prove more sour than droll, despite the presence of skillful actors and a bizarrely enveloping plot.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Howe
This is exactly the kind of weird, sardonic texture the movie is aiming for - and unfortunately, most of it occurs in the first half of the story.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Hal Hinson
Boyle's characters, too, are young and fresh and promisingly rude - especially McGregor's Alex - but they become less and less interesting as the movie progresses.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Peter Rainer
Director Danny Boyle and screenwriter John Hodge (who is a physician!) keep the action spurting forward, but their approach is oblique. We seem to be catching the odds and ends of scenes; it's as if the filmmakers wanted to make a movie in which all the expected high points were skimped.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
All of the materials are in place for a film that might have pleased Orwell. But somehow they never come together.Read Full Review »
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