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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 Sophia L (45) on 29 Aug 2018

Emma Thompson and Stanley Tucci are amazing as always…

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By Alan W (854) on 29 Aug 2018

Emma Thompson and Stanley Tucci are amazing as always…

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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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By Lucy Popescu (34) for CineVue (2,163) on 25 Aug 2018

The Children Act brilliantly recreates the measured mind and language of a judge…

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By Wendy Ide (1,500) for The Observer (UK) (826) on 25 Aug 2018

There is no questioning the angular complexity of the central character study, with all its unexpected harmonics and discords…

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By Charlotte O'sullivan (637) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 25 Aug 2018

File this under missed opportunity. More often than not, it feels like a pretentious episode of Holby City…

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By Andy Lea (545) for Daily Express (UK) (2,141) on 25 Aug 2018

This is a powerful and unusually grown-up British drama, tackling issues of individual freedom, life and death, sex and religion…

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By Ross Miller (135) for The National (Scotland) (129) on 24 Aug 2018

A solidly compelling drama that melds together the sombre and the stirring, while also posing some harsh and fascinating moral conundrums…

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By Rosalynn Try-Hane (91) for Liquid Marmalade (8) on 23 Aug 2018

The solitary act that could have saved this film from itself would have been to have chosen a screenwriter to write the script rather than…

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By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 23 Aug 2018

Ian McEwan's screenplay explores the emotional toll of making decisions about other people's lives, but Richard Eyre's film is staid, structurally…

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By Ella Kemp (95) for Culture Whisper (31) on 23 Aug 2018

Showing how helpless our emotions (or lack thereof) can make us feel, The Children Act feels plagued by its own doomed destiny…

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By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 23 Aug 2018

Courtroom drama? Portrait of a marriage? Character study of a workaholic…

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