This is a clever film, and an atmospheric one, but its elaborate accumulation of cataclysms ultimately feels like one thing after — or before, or during — another.

It’s a serious, sombre film about something else — something, perhaps, very English that is fully smothered here.

An impressive first feature from Christopher Andrews... a bruising tale of vengeance accompanied by a savage, percussive score by Hannah Peel that sounds as though it was played on scrap metal and abandoned farm machinery.

The narrow scope—both in location and character count—allows Andrews to craft a singularly focused debut that manages to be simple and engaging.