One of the year's best movies...It's one of the simplest and best re-creations of downscale urban England during the gritty post-punk years ever put on screen, and it's both upsetting and very funny.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
As its title implies, This Is England isn't a hyperstylized head-trip a la "Trainspotting" but a straightforward calling to account.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kevin Crust
The writer-director brilliantly juxtaposes the personal and the political, bookending a stirring coming-of-age drama with the provocative opening and an equally affecting end sequence.Read Full Review »
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NewsWeek: David Ansen
It has the feel of a classic coming-of-age story. It's the sleeper of the summer.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Manohla Dargis
A modest, near-flawless gem, This Is England is the fifth feature by the young British director Shane Meadows, doing his best work since he first hit the festival scene in the mid-1990s with his hilarious, raw-hewn shorts “Small Time.”Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
The movie is taut, tense, relentless. It shows why Shaun feels he needs to belong to a gang, what he gets out of it and how it goes wrong.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
This Is England, set in the social dystopia of Margaret Thatcher's Great Britain, gives us something far more humane and complex than a culturally specific memoir about Doc Martens shoes, reggae music and mindless aggression.Read Full Review »
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