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By Jeanne Kaplan (738) for Kaplan vs. Kaplan (1,174) on 31 May 2017

Cox has now put his own stamp on Sir Winston, and he is mesmerizing…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 31 May 2017

On the stage, it could be a powerful and moving work. As a movie, it’s a sometimes effective but more often tedious history lesson…

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By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 31 May 2017

The film simplifies Winston Churchill's legacy for the dubious purposes of narrative momentum and emotional lift…

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By Glenn Kenny (1,728) for The New York Times (9,847) on 31 May 2017

The movie’s ambition is the good news…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 31 May 2017

Audacity can’t carry a drama that’s unequal to its subject in almost every respect…

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By Alan Zilberman (171) for Washington Post (9,851) on 31 May 2017

Biography, at its most useful, disabuses us from myth, but Churchill has no such ambitions. As both history and entertainment, it’s a drag…

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By Daniel Schindel (90) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 31 May 2017

It’s difficult to think of a biopic that so thoroughly embarrasses its subject in the process of attempting to honor them the way Churchill does…

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By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 30 May 2017

In its study of a famously tubby alpha male and how his wife helped him through one of the most difficult parts of his career, Churchill has…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 30 May 2017

Cox does a better than average job — almost everybody bombs when playing Churchill — capturing the leader’s seriousness of purpose and…

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By Chuck Wilson (418) for Village Voice (8,525) on 30 May 2017

Cox’s delivery of Churchill’s “We will fight on the beaches” D-Day speech surely ranks among the best, but it’s a problem when a…

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By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 30 May 2017

The result is monotonous, its only memorable image being the salacious wink of Cox’s open fly, mid-frame during a shot of Churchill getting…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 30 May 2017

Unfortunately, Churchill the movie is simply dreadful, a stiff, melodramatic “Great Man” travesty that gets both the larger history and…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 28 May 2017

Churchill is a small, watchable, rather prosaic backroom docudrama…

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By Jared Mobarak (867) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 28 May 2017

As directed by Jonathan Teplitzky, the film carries with it a theatrical style heavy on dialogue with everything portrayed in close-up besides…

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By Stephen Dalton (194) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 28 May 2017

Australian director Jonathan Teplitzky has fashioned a small-scale chamber drama from huge historical events, with a functional script and…

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By Wendy Ide (1,500) for Screen International (2,241) on 28 May 2017

Although driven by a robust, screen-filling performance by Brian Cox, who not only captures the voice and mannerisms of Churchill but also…

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By Robert Abele (1,309) for TheWrap (3,203) on 28 May 2017

There’s a glimmer of a better movie in Richardson’s and Cox’s scenes, which suggest a thorny marriage that barely survived its low points,…

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