Arterton's magnificence is undeniable.

The audience is launched into an unsettling character study, one that takes its time getting its claws into you but ultimately delivers an intense ride.

It's not a cheery picture, but its level of melancholy is haunting, especially when interpreted by star Gemma Arterton, who delivers career-best work in the challenging feature.

Gemma Arterton continues to prove herself as an actress constantly underestimated by the masses.

Tara is a role that she has to inhabit without flash, and Arterton does so, and movingly, in every frame in which she appears.

A quiet domestic-drama chamber piece with a vein of pure desperation thrumming beneath it.

It deals with a very ordinary emergency with deftness of touch, and the power of a singular performance.

Subtle and slow and wrenchingly empathetic, "The Escape" is about gradually realizing that the life you have may not be the one you want.

Although its title might imply some intrepid action movie, writer-director Dominic Savage's intimate, deeply emotional drama "The Escape" proves, in its own way, just as daring and harrowing an experience.

Wrenching scenes from a disintegrating marriage, beautifully played.

Gemma Arterton excels as a shattered mother of two in Savage's absorbing and uncompromising film

Only a brave filmmaker-and even braver actors-would attempt to tackle one of the most vexing questions of contemporary life: Why is "having it all" not quite enough?

It's the subtlety and nuance to this film which makes it such a compelling feature.

...a moving portrait of a woman who's seemingly been coming undone for a while.

There are no audience-appeasing neat happy endings, just raw emotional wounds and aching compromises. But, despite a low key approach, this is a compelling, sometimes wrenching drama.