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In my review, I called the three-hour film “a morose mood piece, soaked in shadow and rage, that has stripped the comic’s archetypes down to abstracted silhouettes and grubbily human characters.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 18, 2022

Hannah J Davies Rather grubbily dubbed "The Rampant Rabbi" by the tabloid press, Rabbi Philip Sharp lives a polygamous, commune-style life on a farm with seven wives in East Sussex, living as Messianic Jews.

From The Guardian • Jun. 20, 2013

It's all so downbeat and grubbily fascinating, but the big test now is, how will the systems work and feel?

From The Guardian • May 2, 2013

That casting undoes a work as grubbily detailed as The Front Page.

From Time Magazine Archive