“[H]is sensitive script and direction provide Skarsgard with the opportunity to create an alcoholic more appallingly and poignantly authentic than any other I have seen on stage or screen. […] The mature virtuoso performance from the Norwegian star is terrific, but not exactly a surprise. What is more startling is the achievement of the comparatively inexperienced Headey […]. You start by watching Headey mainly for her arresting beauty, but end up hypnotised by her capacity to project ugliness, arrogance, redeeming humour and sheer childish vulnerability. […] It is important to add that for all its seriousness, Aberdeen is a very funny movie.” Anna Bryson: A lush tribute to northern soul. In: The Independent, 23. August 2000.
