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This Is England

2006

Shane Meadows

Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Jo Hartley, Andrew Shim ...

7.2

33,109

Drama. Comedy Set in 1983, against the aftermath of the Falklands War, the film introduces us to eleven-year-old Shaun (Thomas Turgoose), whose soldier father was killed in the conflict. Living with his mother and trying to deal with his grief and loss, Shaun has become an angry youngster, quick to use his fists when teased by schoolmates who taunt, bully and pick fights with him. It is not long before he falls in with a gang of older boys - and ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"Its tough but moving neo-realist approach make it one of the better British films of recent times (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Bruce Westbrook Houston Chronicle	"A drama that's so potent and persuasive yet also natural and intimate that it almost has the heft of a documentary."	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"A modest, near-flawless gem, This Is England is a humbly, if insistently political, autobiographical homage to a lost world of youth."	POS
United Kingdom	Dan Jolin Empire	"Deeply impressive, as both a recreation of 80's working-class England and an intimate tale of one childhood's brutal end (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Paul Arendt BBC	"An honest, emotional, funny and deeply moving portrait of growing up. Don't miss it."	POS
United States	David Ansen Newsweek	"It has the feel of a classic coming-of-age story. It's the sleeper of the summer."	POS
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"[It] gives us something far more humane and complex than a culturally specific memoir about Doc Martens shoes, reggae music and mindless aggression."	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"If Shaun’s progress can feel a bit schematic and there’s the odd formal lapse into melodrama, these are outweighed by Meadows’s confident pacing and the superb performances of the young ensemble."	POS
United States	Leslie Felperin Variety	"With its knockout lead perfs and taut if slightly familiar construction, this ’80s-set dramedy about a skinhead gang reps Meadows’ most fluently made film so far."	POS

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