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By Dennis Schwartz (5,456) for Ozus' World Movie Reviews (5,456) on 22 Sep 2007

A post-punk gem of a drama that seems bent on being both funny and deadly serious…

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By Cherryl Dawson And Leigh Ann Palone (956) for TheMovieChicks.com (956) on 22 Sep 2007

This is not the England that makes you want to hop on over for a visit, but the movie is worthy of a quick look…

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By Sean P. Means (2,056) for Salt Lake Tribune (1,927) on 13 Sep 2007

[Meadows] captures the palpable anger of impoverished youth, without money or jobs or hope, seeking to blame somebody else for their troubles…

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By Tim Brayton (2,283) for Antagony & Ecstasy (1,911) on 11 Sep 2007

This Is England is a movie like a punch to the solar plexus…

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By John Hartl (735) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 06 Sep 2007

It may be the best work to date from the talented 34-year-old writer-director of Twenty Four Seven (1997)…

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By Bruce Westbrook (223) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 06 Sep 2007

A drama that's so potent and persuasive yet also natural and intimate that it almost has the heft of a documentary…

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By Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) (2,277) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 05 Sep 2007

He [Director Shane Meadows] He has a gift for getting under the skin of his working-class characters, who are invariably from the British Midlands…

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By Chris Hewitt (2,086) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 05 Sep 2007

He [Director Shane Meadows] He has a gift for getting under the skin of his working-class characters, who are invariably from the British Midlands…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 03 Sep 2007

The rare coming-of-age tale that offers real historical resonance rather than mere nostalgia…

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By Jean Lowerison (512) for San Diego Metropolitan (486) on 31 Aug 2007

Every now and then a film gets it so right that you wonder why they can't do it all the time…

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By Terry Lawson (645) for Detroit Free Press (942) on 30 Aug 2007

A hard-fisted punch of reality based on the filmmaker's experiences growing up in England's Midlands in 1983…

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By Rob Vaux (1,125) for Flipside Movie Emporium (617) on 11 Aug 2007

A sympathetic, deeply human view of figures whose usual cinematic function is to get thrashed by Chuck Norris…

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By Urban Cinefile Critics (1,069) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 10 Aug 2007

Shane Meadows has taken a traumatic moment of violence from his own childhood, together with the themes of victimisation, bullying and thuggery…

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By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 09 Aug 2007

Strong performances and powerful sense of time and place are almost enough to make a convincing argument for spending 98 minutes squirming with dread…

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By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Aug 2007

Masterfully charted and acted, as are the boy's early forays into sex…

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By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 09 Aug 2007

Meadows' recollections of his own youth...lend a terrible immediacy to an unusually potent coming-of-age story…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Combustible Celluloid (2,644) on 08 Aug 2007

It doesn't seem the slightest bit like real life, even though writer/director Shane Meadows reportedly based it on his own…

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By Kevin Thomas (1,201) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 01 Aug 2007

The writer-director brilliantly juxtaposes the personal and the political, bookending a stirring coming-of-age drama with the provocative opening…

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By Pam Grady (384) for Reel.com (1,232) on 26 Jul 2007

[Director] Meadows does such a find job creating the tiny universe that it seem hermetically sealed from the rest of England…

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By John P. Mccarthy (315) for Boxoffice Magazine (2,896) on 26 Jul 2007

The connections he makes between skinhead jingoism, Thatcher's aggressive governing style and an aimlessly spunky kid coming-of-age are trenchant…

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