On Bear Ridge is a slow show and at times the unending tranquillity saddles the tragedy. But it's constantly affecting to watch a genealogy, a heritage, gradually perish on the side of an isolated mountain...'
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Despite committed performances and the magnetism of Ifans, the short evening winds up being as cold, woolly and unmoving as a sheep trapped in a snow-drift.'
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Although bolstered by sturdy performances from Rhys Ifans and Rakie Ayola, Ed Thomas’s Welsh play is a cheekily slight post-apocalyptic fantasy.'
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Its cinematic staging creates a gloriously detailed shop-world that’s gradually dismantled...There’s nothing much new about this lament for lost rural identity, but it seeps into you...'
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Rhys Ifans's tragicomic masterclass...Despite its rather abstract quality, 'On Bear Ridge' has enormous symbolic resonance.'
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