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By Caryn James (352) for BBC (137) on 18 Oct 2022

The deepest flaw in My Policeman is that we grasp too little of the characters' inner lives…

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By Hanna Flint (37) for Time Out (7,510) on 18 Oct 2022

Variously throughout the film, close-ups of hands stroking marble, bodies or linking fingers try their best to create a sense of visual intimacy…

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By John Nugent (191) for Empire (3,446) on 18 Oct 2022

Well-meaning but unfortunately misjudged, this clichéd melodrama is a minor stumble for Harry Styles’ continuing conquest of cinema…

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By Mae Abdulbaki (411) for Screen Rant (892) on 26 Sep 2022

While the film could have spent more time exploring its central characters, their emotions, actions, and how time has shaped them in the intervening…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen Daily (1,021) on 13 Sep 2022

This adaptation of Bethan Roberts’ novel is full of repressed emotions and the occasional tearful recrimination, but the stateliness of the…

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By Gregory Ellwood (229) for The Playlist (3,871) on 12 Sep 2022

Styles, night and day here compared to his work in that other fall release, wonderfully inhabits a working-class man fearful of public scrutiny…

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By Amber Dowling (3) for Consequence (296) on 12 Sep 2022

What’s more universal are the lingering feelings of loss and wasted time, and that wondering of what could have been…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 12 Sep 2022

Policeman, as emotionally earnest and elegantly made as it is, mostly feels like a movie we've seen many times before: a pleasantly escapist…

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By Katie Walsh (1,279) for TheWrap (3,203) on 12 Sep 2022

The 1990s framing device keeps pulling us out of the 1950s love story, sapping its power…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 12 Sep 2022

Alas, the older actors don’t have all that much to do (editor Chris Dickens keeping cutting back to McKee reading), but the younger trio…

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By Chase Hutchinson (96) for Collider (1,032) on 12 Sep 2022

For all the anticipation about this being a star turn for Styles, the lack of depth in his performance and of the film itself ensures it won’t…

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By Ryan Lattanzio (73) for IndieWire (3,631) on 12 Sep 2022

My Policeman isn’t not arresting, and that’s thanks to the work of David Dawson and Emma Corrin, and not the film’s top biller, who was…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 12 Sep 2022

Nyswaner and Grandage here let the lads get nude and sweaty, rolling around in a golden haze — lots of arched backs, hungry hands and eyes…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 12 Sep 2022

Michael Grandage’s new film has been coolly received by some, but I found it an interestingly fragile and Rattiganesque melodrama of repression…

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By Johnny Oleksinski (478) for New York Post (6,650) on 12 Sep 2022

I can’t speak to Bethan Roberts’ 2012 novel the film is based on, but the story’s climactic reveal is one of the most predictable in…

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By Robert Daniels (336) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 12 Sep 2022

My Policeman is surface-level queer representation lacking in visual imagination and begging for better performances…

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By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 12 Sep 2022

My Policeman is studied and plodding in its period-piece solemnity, a dirge of a movie about reckless people that is never warmed by their…

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By Benjamin Lee (469) for The Guardian (2,969) on 12 Sep 2022

The stinging tragedy of being gay at the wrong time in history is something that will always prove ripe for emotive, painful drama but director…

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