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Nov 29, 2021
100
“Landscapers” dares to cast aside expectations and dares the viewer to come along for the ride. It is wonderfully in tune with film’s capacity to make up its own truth.
Dec 1, 2021
100
If Sinclair’s bold concept and script lift it well above the average crime drama, the direction, by Will Sharpe, is what makes Landscapers unforgettable. ... [Colman and Thewlis] get plenty of screen time, and anchor the more out-there moments in patient, believable characters.
Dec 7, 2021
100
It is a rich, generous, clever, multi-textured thing, immaculately played by all the main actors, but awards for Colman, Thewlis and the script must surely be given. Consider it the first of your Christmas treats.
Dec 7, 2021
100
Exhilarating, eccentric and endlessly surprising – Landscapers might have left it late but it’s one of the best dramas of 2021.
Dec 6, 2021
91
The result is rich, thought-provoking art that makes Susan and Christopher strangely sympathetic, as they blend the lines of fantasy in order to keep the truth—whatever it might be—deeply buried.
Dec 2, 2021
90
Olivia Coleman continues to astonish with her emotional range in a peak performance of deep pathos as the childlike and chipper Susan. [6 - 19 Dec 2021, p.8]
Jan 12, 2022
90
In "Landscapers," Sharpe and his fellow-creator, Ed Sinclair, who wrote the script, fully integrate the breaking of the fourth wall into their haunting study of marriage, victimhood, and role-play.
Dec 2, 2021
83
Mostly it’s a showcase for Colman, for that endlessly expressive face and her perfect line readings, for the humanity she draws on so easily. Watch it and marvel.
Dec 6, 2021
83
Rather than trying to right a wrong or exploit a painful story for passive entertainment (as so many true crime series do), HBO’s four-part romance lets the mystery be while honoring the possibility that these two people did what they did out of love.
Dec 2, 2021
80
The stylized sequences ultimately put a distance between us and them, a couple whose lives are as low key as the experimentation is bold. That makes it all the more notable that Colman and Thewlis register so strongly and memorably. Despite the many interruptions, they deliver.
