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Career Girls

1997

Mike Leigh

Katrin Cartlidge, Lynda Steadman, Mark Benton, Kate Byers ...

6.7

645

Drama Career girls opens with a train journey towards London's Kings Cross where Annie, one of the major characters is about to meet her old university friend Hannah. She recalls moving into a grotty student flat with Hannah in the mid-eighties. In those days Annie was self conscious and jumpy. The pair have not seen one another since graduation. They both now have moderately successful careers and are, at least on the surface, self assured ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Leigh likes to let scenes develop in their own time. They don't rush to a payoff (...) What is the use of a film like this? It inspires reflection (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"Thanks to [Leigh and Steadman's] insights, Hannah, Annie and the viewer are all a little older and wiser by the time 'Career Girls' is over."	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"[It] can't help but be seen as something of a letdown after [Leigh's] career-topping previous pic, but its deliberate off-handedness and limited ambition ultimately prove disarming."	NEU
United Kingdom	Christopher Hemblade Empire	"'Career Girls' is a masterly observation of the foibles of the human condition, rendered with an incisive bite and delivered with boisterous wit (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tom Charity Time Out	"[A] thin, disappointing film."	NEG

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