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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…

Review of This Is England (2007)

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…

Review of This Is England (2007)

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 Dwilly (66) on 01 Sep 2007

Oh, my god, this is an overrated movie…

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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 Patd. (5) on 06 Aug 2007

Truly excellent film. Fantastic performances from the young cast, while the soundtrack is spot on…

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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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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 26 Jul 2007

It's a thoroughly exhaustive, hand-wringing emotional stick of provincial dynamite that viciously grabs the audience by the collar and drags…

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By Armond White (604) for New York Press (561) on 24 Jul 2007

It's only a half-great film, which is to say that its best moments are more perceptive and powerful than any other movie this summer…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 23 Jul 2007

A riveting English film about a fatherless 12-year-old English kid who joins a band of skinheads and is initiated into a world that rocks his being…

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