Only You Reviews
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
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
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
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
Rebecca Harrison The Afternoon Show
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
Kevin Maher Times (UK)
You will believe. You will be moved. You will not laugh.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 20, 2019
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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