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Metascore
6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 83The PlaylistJessica KiangThe PlaylistJessica KiangZlotowski has turned in a beguiling film that impresses as much for its oddly specific and well-researched setting (the ragtag community of lower-grade workers at a nuclear power plant), as for the romance, and maintains impressive narrative and tonal control right up until an ending that falters just at the final hurdle.
- 80CineVueJohn BleasdaleCineVueJohn BleasdaleZlotowski's Grand Central is a fascinating film on an urgent and seldom-explored situation.
- 80Total FilmJames MottramTotal FilmJames MottramSeydoux again offers a frank turn, while Rahim and Ménochet add real class.
- 80The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawSome critics have expressed reservations about melodrama and overworked symbolism, but I found it gripping, with an edge of delirium.
- 60EmpireDavid ParkinsonEmpireDavid ParkinsonA gripping if occasionally overwrought drama radiated by a standout turn from Seydoux.
- 60The TelegraphTim RobeyThe TelegraphTim Robey[Zlotowski] creates a situation, casts it perfectly, and backs out of a fully achieved story. As drama, it’s coitus interruptus, with a Geiger counter doing the interrupting.