Tony

View London“Highly recommended...” Tony is a hugely enjoyable, superbly directed drama with a blackly comic script and a terrific central performance. Enjoyable, darkly funny and weirdly moving, this is a sharply written, well acted drama...

Guardian“Loads of ­local ­colour...” Enough red herrings get chucked into the mix to keep you ­interested, and Ferdinando's performance, though perhaps one sandwich short of awards glory, is none the less nuanced and surprising...

Time Out film“Grisly and deadpan urban miserabilism...” He generates as much gruesome black humour as he does banal horror. Not a reassuring vision, for sure, and no tourist plug for Dalston, Hackney or Haggerston, but the film’s a fair calling card for Johnson’s talent...

The Times“It provides little psychological insight or even entertainment...” The problem is that there’s no character development, no revelations and no epiphany. The film is merely nauseating. We’re treated to Tony chopping up organs in his kitchen sink, a dismembered foot in his bathroom...

The Telegraph“Not yet reviewed”

Empire“Deadpan miserablism at its deadest...” After many films in which serial murderers are terrifying geniuses, it’s sobering to discover Tony. Not cheery, but gripping, against-the-odds funny and uncomfortably unique. Johnson and Ferdinando are certainly now names to watch...

Little White Lies“It’s not that Tony is a poorly made piece of cinema...” It doesn’t help that there are a couple of narrative clangers that further shake your faith (no one would invite this guy to dinner with their children)...

The Independent“A damaged and oddly pitiable character ” Gerard Johnson's low-budget streets-of-London downer is nominally about a serial killer, but in Peter Ferdinando's remarkable title-role it becomes rather more about urban loneliness and alienation...

Total Film “Ferdinando excels as the repellent killer...” Despite a black vein of humour, the slow, directionless narrative leaves Tony looking like Dalston’s dour answer to American Psycho...

Variety“Another fictive gander at the everyday life of a serial killer...” While writer-helmer Gerard Johnson's clinical detachment thus frustrates to an extent, within the pic's narrow focus, he's delivered a intelligently crafted, nonexploitative debut...