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with McAvoy acting as if his life depends on it, Filth is the Irvine Welsh film we've been waiting years for. Tastier than a deep-fried Mars Bar...by James Mottram [Total Film ]
unlike Jude Law's similarly offensive title character in Dom Hemingway, McAvoy is given a far better story to work fromby Linda Barnard [Toronto Star ]
indeed, that aspect of this manic but often morbidly fun film is nothing to shake a stick at, eitherby Joe Neumaier [New York Daily News ]
Filth is still a hugely entertaining breath of foul air fuelled by McAvoy's impressively ugly star performanceby Stephen Dalton [Hollywood Reporter ]
an explosive James McAvoy does a jumped-up version of Denis Leary's roguish "Rescue Me" character in "Filth," a cop caper that more than lives up to its nameby Kyle Smith [New York Post ]