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By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 01 Jun 2015

Deftly balancing restrained sentimentalism with tough-minded human tragedy, this impressive, unashamedly classical feature debut by TV helmer…

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By Fionnuala Halligan (367) for Screen International (2,241) on 01 Jun 2015

It’s a sad, sad film about the tragic loss of a generation, but the thought of Brittain moving through the generations to deliver her message…

Review of Testament of Youth (2015)

By Timothy E. Raw (4) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Jun 2015

The film's inferno of horrors are undoubtedly visceral, but psychologically implosive rather than entrails-exploding…

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By Marsha Mccreadie (81) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Jun 2015

Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina), simultaneously poignant and powerful as Vera Brittain, the writer who fought her way into Oxford then chucked…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Tribune News Service (1,102) on 31 May 2015

It’s a quiet, thoughtful and handsomely mounted film, offering another plum role to Alicia Vikander (“Ex Machina”) as Brittain…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 29 May 2015

The heartbreaks resulting from World War One take life from this adapted memoir of a woman who loved and lost…

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By Inkoo Kang (374) for TheWrap (3,203) on 28 May 2015

The men are slightly forgettable, but the woman is not…

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By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 22 May 2015

A superb feature film adaptation that more than measures up to the beloved five-part BBC TV series from 1979…

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By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 12 May 2015

A compassionate, distressing tale of a woman's determination to find her own purpose, full of heartbreaking moments that pile up until they're…

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By Cj Johnson (473) for ABC Radio (Australia) (677) on 28 Apr 2015

Vikander's performance, and the ultimate effect of Brittain's story, are powerful enough to raise the film above its own shortcomings…

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By David Stratton (799) for The Australian (781) on 23 Apr 2015

Led by Vikander's skilled performance, the remainder of the cast fulfil their roles with style, the standout being Morgan's Victor, whose unrequited…

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By Paul Byrnes (441) for Sydney Morning Herald (1,256) on 22 Apr 2015

If grief is the proper subject of any film about that war, then Testament of Youth is a masterful look into that grief…

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By Jarrod Walker (34) for FILMINK (Australia) (1,405) on 22 Apr 2015

Testament Of Youth is hampered by a failure to effectively convey exactly what made it such an important work for the post-war generation…

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By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 16 Apr 2015

The filmmakers end up making a rather gloomy chick-flick, rather than the war drama with a modern heroine, which it might have been…

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By Joe Walsh (56) for CineVue (2,163) on 24 Jan 2015

Kent, who gathers a cast of extremely bright young things, creates a drama that glides with sorrowful grace, pitching at a respectful and tear-inducing…

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By Mark Kermode (1,002) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 18 Jan 2015

It's a powerful story, and one that deserves to be told and retold, albeit in rather more adventurous fashion…

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By Matt Looker (202) for TheShiznit.co.uk (506) on 17 Jan 2015

While the film itself is well-crafted and it contains decent performances, from a film-viewing perspective, the story is deeply flawed…

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By Geoffrey Macnab (1,253) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 16 Jan 2015

A film that grows more powerful the darker it becomes…

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By Donald Clarke (1,051) for Irish Times (1,391) on 16 Jan 2015

Cast in depth, edited with grace, the picture does great justice to a text that has, of late, become a little under-discussed…

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By Allan Hunter (1,486) for Daily Express (UK) (2,141) on 16 Jan 2015

Vikander brings a real sense of the inner rage and frustration Brittain must have felt as she constantly battled against the narrow expectations…

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