Una: reviews

What the critics say average 6.5 from 6 outlets

• 8.0 ColliderMatt Goldberg While the film doesn?t always succeed in playing against expectations (especially near the end as the story seems as lost as Una with how to proceed), it forces the audience to sit with tough questions even when we think we already know the answers. Read
• 7.5 The Hollywood ReporterDavid Rooney It's one of the more intelligent stage-to-screen adaptations of recent years and should find receptive audiences among moviegoers open to challenging, provocative drama. Read
• 7.0 IndiewireDavid Ehrlich And the final moments of 'Una' unflinchingly articulate why men should never presume to understand ?or dare to downplay? a trauma that women spend a lifetime trying to resolve for themselves. Read
• 6.5 The PlaylistGregory Ellwood However, at the end of 'Una', you?re simply left with a ?he said, she said? held on the shoulders of two great actors. Read
• 6.0 VarietyPeter Debruge But on screen, 'Una' feels every bit as twisted as films like 'Hard Candy' (in which Ellen Page turns the tables on a sexual predator she meets online) and 'Atracción Fatal' (a highly problematic AIDS-panic play in which an HIV-positive guy seeks revenge on the man he?s convinced infected him). Read
• 4.0 The GuardianBenjamin Lee 'Una' is a character and a story that fails to engage and the argument for its existence as a film is a sadly unsuccessful one. Read