Grand Central

Empire by David Parkinson

A gripping if occasionally overwrought drama radiated by a standout turn from Seydoux.

Total Film by James Mottram

Seydoux again offers a frank turn, while Rahim and Ménochet add real class.

The Playlist by Jessica Kiang

Zlotowski 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.

CineVue by John Bleasdale

Zlotowski's Grand Central is a fascinating film on an urgent and seldom-explored situation.

The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

Some critics have expressed reservations about melodrama and overworked symbolism, but I found it gripping, with an edge of delirium.

The Telegraph by Tim 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.