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By Donald Clarke (1,051) for Irish Times (1,391) on 20 Oct 2016

His name is Ken Loach. He makes Ken Loach films. And this is his best in a generation…

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By David Jenkins (910) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 20 Oct 2016

A realist melodrama that offers little to no nuance…

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By Pamela Hutchinson (21) for Sight and Sound (827) on 20 Oct 2016

With I, Daniel Blake, his latest film and one of his finest, Loach's talent for humour runs through the entire work…

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By Jamie East (261) for The Sun (UK) (932) on 19 Oct 2016

The bluntly black-and-white approach to characterisation is all that jolts you from an otherwise absorbing narrative…

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By Damon Wise (265) for Radio Times (2,421) on 19 Oct 2016

I, Daniel Blake is a small film about unheard voices that punches above its weight, made all the more relevant in the wake of the EU referendum…

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By Brian Viner (589) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 19 Oct 2016

Loach is a remarkably accomplished film-maker, with an amazing body of work, but this is not him at the top of his game…

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By Allan Hunter (1,486) for Daily Express (UK) (2,141) on 19 Oct 2016

Despite its flaws and predictability, it's hard not to be won over by the warmth of its human spirit, as it confronts a subject that sadly…

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By Paula Arantzazu Ruiz (61) for Sensacine (386) on 19 Oct 2016

A film with a message in danger of becoming obsolete for a public that needs other representations of economic inequalities far from the cliche…

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By Deborah Ross (530) for The Spectator (1,162) on 19 Oct 2016

Fearsomely moving (I cried), and fearsomely tender (I cried again)…

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By Matthew Turner (2,508) for iNews.co.uk (132) on 18 Oct 2016

Filled with tender moments and warm humour, but shot through with righteous fury over social injustice, this is a passionate and vitally important…

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By Dave Calhoun (583) for Time Out London (344) on 17 Oct 2016

It's a spare film, muted in colour and unflashy – and it's all the more powerful and urgent for it…

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By Andrew Lowry (88) for Empire (3,446) on 16 Oct 2016

Loach scans the contemporary landscape, and instead of a firebrand approach of stereotype, delivers a film of immense sadness…

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By Ryan Gilbey (367) for New Statesman (382) on 12 Oct 2016

The greatest virtue of I, Daniel Blake is its patience in confronting painstakingly the incremental humiliations visited on the neediest in society…

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By Sam C. Mac (54) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 27 Sep 2016

It's pock-marked by the conservative dramatic conventions and broad political gestures that have marred much of Ken Loach's recent output…

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By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 27 Sep 2016

Ken Loach at his very best. It might be subtitled Why Jeremy Corbyn became Labour leader…

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By Brian D. Johnson (137) for Maclean's Magazine (153) on 18 Sep 2016

Witty, tender and oh so relevant, it's a lot more fun than it sounds…

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By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 08 Sep 2016

Like most of Loach and Laverty's recent output, this is a solidly crafted drama with a couple of piercing moments…

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By Kent Turner (504) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 10 Jun 2016

Defiantly old school, ... it had heart and was undeniably moving, leaving the audience teary-eyed…

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By Jordan Ruimy (242) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 21 May 2016

I, Daniel Blake is a problematic, but important critique of the British social system…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 20 May 2016

I, Daniel Blake is one of Loach’s finest films, a drama of tender devastation that tells its story with an unblinking neorealist simplicity…

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