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Sorry We Missed You

2019

Ken Loach

Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys Stone, Katie Proctor ...

7.1

5,421

Drama Ricky and his family have been fighting an uphill struggle against debt since the 2008 financial crash. An opportunity to wrestle back some independence appears with a shiny new van and the chance to run a franchise as a self-employed delivery driver. It’s hard work, and his wife’s job as a carer is no easier. The family unit is strong but when both are pulled in different directions everything comes to breaking point.

	Author	Review
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"[An] intimate and powerful drama about what’s going on in people’s everyday lives — not just in England, but all over the world.	POS
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"A sustained emotional crescendo of quiet devastation (...) A drama of such searing human empathy and quotidian heartbreak that its powerful climactic scenes actually impede your breathing."	POS
United States	Steve Pond The Wrap	"[It] takes Loach’s usual concerns and paints them in broad, thick strokes (...) In other words, it is not a subtle film, and its bluntness is occasionally potent but just as often wearying."	NEU
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"[It] doesn’t break new ground for the filmmaker, but it radiates a timeliness that suggests an old-fashioned Ken Loach lament matters more than ever."	POS
United Kingdom	Lee Marshall Screendaily	"Loach delivers one of his best films"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It’s fierce, open and angry, unironised and unadorned (...) It depicts the human cost of an economic development that we are encouraged to accept as a fact of life.(...) (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"[It delivers] the righteous moral punch that we expect of Loach, but with little to none of the finger-wagging dialogue (...) that can make his characters seem less like human beings (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
	Kaleem Aftab Cineuropa	"Loach has made yet another important film about today’s society. But in solely dramatic terms (...) [it] is too on the nose and predictable."	NEU
United Kingdom	Beth Webb Empire	"Loach takes great care to construct a deep-rooted compassion within the family (...) An important and timely watch (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Geoffrey Macnab The Independent	"The British director cares deeply about his characters and makes the audience care too (...) There are fleeting moments of humour and lyricism here (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Ireland	John Byrne RTÉ	"If you don't come out of 'Sorry We Missed You' with either a lump in your throat or a clenched fist, you're made of stone (…) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
Ireland	James W. Anderson entertainment.ie	"Laverty’s script is very tight and threads it all together (...) This is another fine movie even if it fills us with dread (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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