"A life-changing odyssey through the badlands of America's adult movie capital.  Far from being a voyeuristic peek at the sex industry, this film ends up as a moving picture of a lost soul."

MAIL ON SUNDAY

"It will hit you with the force of a shotgun blast to the face. Shocking, heartbreaking and genuinely frightening, this one will make you cry. A deeply disturbing cautionary tale."

THE GUARDIAN

"A documentary in which the innocence of the subject and the innocence of the film-maker crumble in tandem in front of your eyes. The result is both explicit and numbing."

"This eye-opening documentary shows that far from joining the mainstream, hardcore porn can still be brutalising."

THE INDEPENDENT

"Felicity's compelling and touching story reveals an industry that is far from mainstream."

SUNDAY EXPRESS

With pornography, it seems as if the sheer scale of the phenomenon has, in time-honoured capitalist fashion, conferred its own respectability; as a result, serious analysis is hard to come by. Only occasionally, amid porn-disguised-as-documentary that distinguishes much of Channel 5's late-night output, is there broadcasting that gives any kind of insight. Channel 4's Hardcore offered a rare, unadorned look at the inside of the industry...

THE GUARDIAN

"Avoids graphic excess in favour of visual suggestion to create a profile which is gripping, though grave and disturbing."

TIME OUT

“Theroux has done it, Ruby Wax has done it, but nobody has visited a porn film set in quite the same way as Hardcore."

EVENING STANDARD

"Initially at least, it looked like another of those pious peeks at the pornography trade.  In the end though, unlike so many documentaries about porn, it sharpened the sense of sin rather than anaesthetised it."

INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

"Hardcore has turned out to be one of the most talked about documentaries of the year. The harrowing tale of a British woman trying to make it big in the American porn industry."

MEDIA WEEK