Only You - Movie Reviews (2024)

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Kevin Harley Radio Times

The result overcomes a rather threadbare narrative in the late stretch to offer a distinct and grown-up love story, with its tough and tender elements held in fine balance.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 21, 2021

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Charlotte Harrison Charlotte Sometimes Goes to the Movies

The end result is a film that is quietly profound and full of intimacy, just beautiful.

Full Review | Nov 6, 2020

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Steven Sheehan The Digital Fix

Both O'Connor and Costa do what they can with the material but it isn't enough to give credibility to their story.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Feb 6, 2020

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Amelia Harvey Screen Queens

Only You achieves the astonishing feat of making one couple's specific story become a universal tale of struggle, jealousy and grief.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 4, 2019

A well-observed and intimate film that, despite its painfully straight-white storytelling, invites us to share an emotional experience with its relatable characters.

Full Review | Oct 2, 2019

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Kevin Maher Times (UK)

You will believe. You will be moved. You will not laugh.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 20, 2019

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Matt Rodgers Flickering Myth

A stripped-back contemporary fable, Only You is a grown-up film about grown-up people, one that'll threaten to break your heart as often as it makes it skip-a-beat.

Full Review | Sep 3, 2019

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Paul Whitington Irish Independent

The joy and idiocy of love at first sight is brilliantly captured by Harry Wootliff in this compelling, touching drama that veers off in unexpected directions.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 8, 2019

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Peter Bradshaw Guardian

[Only You's] a poignant and compelling Venn diagram of passion and heartache.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 15, 2019

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Tara Brady Irish Times

The beautifully streamlined screenplay is as economical as it is unexpectedly revelatory.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 15, 2019

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Ian Freer Empire Magazine

Only You, the feature debut of TV screenwriter Harry Wootliff, is that rare effort that could go toe-to-toe with its American counterpart, a passionate, moving love story told with nuance and heart.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 15, 2019

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Alison Rowat The Herald (Scotland)

Two terrific performances from O'Connor (God's Own Country, The Durrells) and Spanish actor Costa (Victoria) and the occasional drag can be forgiven.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 15, 2019

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Edward Porter Sunday Times (UK)

The characters' freshness and the film's attention to mood and atmosphere reveal plenty of talent in Wootliff, making her debut as a feature director.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 15, 2019

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Pamela Hutchinson

In its unflinching and sustained examination of a very personal issue, Only You stumbles on some universal truths about human relationships.

Full Review | Jul 15, 2019

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Mark Kermode Observer (UK)

A terrifically engrossing drama about two wholly believable characters, made with the kind of wit, honesty and raw emotional intimacy that pierces right to the heart of their relationship.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 14, 2019

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Charlotte O'Sullivan London Evening Standard

All hail a lacerating romance that somehow gets us in the mood for love.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 12, 2019

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David Jenkins Little White Lies

In her writing and direction, Wootlif refuses to shirk from the darkness ahead, even if the film does take another shift before a somewhat conventional third act wrap-up.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 11, 2019

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Larushka Ivan-Zadeh Metro Newspaper (UK)

A grown-up, low-budget British romantic drama about infertility might not get your pulses racing but this is one of 2019's hidden gems.

Full Review | Jul 10, 2019

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Alistair Ryder Film Inquiry

The middle section may be something of a slog, but thanks to O'Connor and Costa, there is never a second where you won't believe you're seeing the intimate difficulties of a real couple laid bare onscreen.

Full Review | Jul 9, 2019

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Philip De Semlyen Time Out

Part old-school romance, part fertility horror film, it should resonate deeply with anyone who's been touched by the struggle to conceive.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 5, 2019

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