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By Brian C (2,025) on 11 Jan 2014

A moving story, beautifully filmed with convincing acting…

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By Megan L (165) on 11 Jan 2014

Seems like an award contender but dont be fooled it so not…

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By Charlotte O'sullivan (637) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 10 Jan 2014

For reasons best known to himself, director Jonathan Teplitzky has turned Lomax's grim, modest, devastatingly tender memoir into a tall tale…

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By Nigel Floyd (230) for Film4 (1,522) on 10 Jan 2014

Despite its stodgy storytelling, this respectful cinematic version of ex-POW Eric Lomax's true story succeeds because of Colin Firth's perfect,…

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By Chris K (1,194) on 10 Jan 2014

Well acted, sensitively directed and brilliantly understated. A movie that respects the intellect of its audience…

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By Andrew T (1,075) on 10 Jan 2014

We don't live. We don't sleep. We're miming in the choir, an army of ghosts. Superb…

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By Richard B (1,390) on 10 Jan 2014

Powerful film exploring the brutality of war and reconciliation…

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By Brian Viner (589) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 09 Jan 2014

It's not easy to play an uncommunicative character in a medium that is all about communication, but nobody does so better than Firth…

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By Nigel Andrews (1,359) for Financial Times (1,822) on 09 Jan 2014

Firth spends most of the movie with quivering features - it's like watching a blancmange under torture - and emotion-clotted voice…

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By Matthew Turner (2,508) for ViewLondon (2,339) on 09 Jan 2014

Features strong performances from Colin Firth and Jeremy Irvine, but it's hampered by stodgy direction, some dreadful miscasting and a clunky…

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By Thirza Wakefield (8) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 09 Jan 2014

Lomax's act of forgiveness is unforgettable, and commendably not over-simplified here…

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By Elliott Noble (448) for Sky Cinema (1,726) on 09 Jan 2014

An incredible tale of love, courage and humanity - and their opposites - the story of Eric Lomax sounds like it was dreamed up in a Hollywood…

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By Tim Robey (1,578) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 09 Jan 2014

The result is a film that does perfectly respectable justice to Lomax's ordeal, without ever making a strong case for itself as independently…

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By Emma Dibdin (195) for Digital Spy (1,161) on 08 Jan 2014

The film's nightmarish opening moments lay out the landscape of its hero's traumatised mind with haunting precision, the line between fantasy…

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By Cath Clarke (570) for Time Out London (344) on 07 Jan 2014

In Firth’s every grimace and flinch you feel the torment of Lomax’s private world, but emotionally ‘The Railway Man’ feels trimmed…

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By Siobhan Synnot (412) for Scotsman (1,471) on 06 Jan 2014

The best thing that could come out of this rather stodgy biopic is that it may steer audiences towards Lomax's fine and moving book…

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By Stefan Pape (613) for HeyUGuys (1,461) on 06 Jan 2014

Teplitzky has structured his film masterfully, as the way this tale is told, intertwining between various flashbacks, is completely seamless…

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By Ian Nathan (392) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 05 Jan 2014

Tamely shot, thematically scattershot and uncertainly told - not even Colin Firth can talk this biopic to life…

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By Andy Lea (545) for Daily Star (403) on 05 Jan 2014

Colin Firth puts in the performance of his career in this powerful and accomplished drama based on the memoirs of Eric Lomax…

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By Phil P (431) on 05 Jan 2014

Very good movie - a story with substance. Based on fact it is beautifully photographed ,directed & well acted…

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