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By Danielle Solzman (397) for Solzy at the Movies (339) on 13 Sep 2018

With a stellar performance from Emma Thompson, The Children Act tells a moving story of a judge who must decide on life or death…

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By Rex Reed (1,506) for New York Observer (1,400) on 13 Sep 2018

A single idea stretched out for nearly two hours, it’s an odd but strangely compelling film, but so ponderously paced that it doesn’t always…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 12 Sep 2018

This certainly played differently in the UK than it will in the US, where children’s rights appear to have more latitude, even if they can…

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By Kim Hughes (164) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 12 Sep 2018

Credit the towering talents of Emma Thompson and Stanley Tucci with redeeming The Children Act, a film oddly thin on story despite coming from…

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By Ben Kenigsberg (863) for The New York Times (9,847) on 12 Sep 2018

The movie finally punts on grappling with its ambiguities. The finale feels functional rather than haunting…

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By Simi Horwitz (83) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 12 Sep 2018

The acting is not the problem. It rarely is. And, within parameters, the movie is not dull…

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By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Sep 2018

The Children Act stages the clumsiness of belated domestic confrontations with the very coldness that’s kept its characters from having discussed…

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By Ella Taylor (978) for NPR (1,713) on 12 Sep 2018

Characters move through their posh habitats, explaining what they've done, are about to do, should have done years ago…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 12 Sep 2018

The Children Act evinces measured intelligence and polished craftsmanship without ever quite shaking off the feel of a work filtered through…

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By Emily Yoshida (237) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 12 Sep 2018

In the hands of Iris and Notes on a Scandal director Richard Eyre, McEwan’s story is stagy and austere, taking place in gleaming flats and…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 11 Sep 2018

Thompson never disappoints, nailing every nuance of a judge who lets the world in at the cost of losing her own judgment…

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By Andrew Parker (194) for The Gate (178) on 11 Sep 2018

The Children Act is a messy, ultimately unsuccessful movie made by the best people for the job…

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By Emily Sears (16) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 11 Sep 2018

The narrative is very posh and restrained, never quite reaching for anything more nuanced than the courtroom logic of right versus wrong…

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By Anthony Lane (1,079) for New Yorker (1,403) on 09 Sep 2018

It’s worth seeing precisely for the heat of the arguments that you can enjoy after the screening and, above all, for Emma Thompson…

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By Robert Kojder (605) for Flickering Myth (680) on 08 Sep 2018

The melodrama is piled on during the final act to an unbearable degree with material not even Emma Thompson can save…

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By Nathan Osborne (34) for Film Inquiry (1,269) on 06 Sep 2018

He Children Act works strongest as a tight character study of the central female figure, elevated to higher ground by the astonishing lead…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 27 Aug 2018

Even the cast’s uniform excellence can’t quite crack Children’s outer carapace, or bring full life to Fiona’s emotional struggle as…

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By Donald Clarke (1,051) for Irish Times (1,391) on 27 Aug 2018

The film thinks itself very grown-up and, like many films that think themselves that, plays out its confrontations in the style of a middlebrow play…

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By Matthew Bond (673) for The Mail on Sunday (UK) (704) on 26 Aug 2018

What makes it not just a feature film but a feature film worth catching (if you're in a cerebral frame of mind) is the quality of Thompson's…

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By Roe Mcdermott (197) for Hot Press (197) on 26 Aug 2018

The Children Act can feel sluggish and melodramatic, weighed down with the use of superfluous flashbacks, letter-reading voice-overs, and the…

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