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The End We Start From

The 100 Most Anticipated Movies of 2023

2023

Mahalia Belo

Jodie Comer, Katherine Waterston, Benedict Cumberbatch, Mark Strong ...

5.4

Drama A woman who along with her newborn try to find their way home as environmental crisis that submerges London in flood waters and sees a young family torn apart in the chaos.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"A magnificent lead performance elevates a simple, yet mostly effective, adaptation of Megan Hunter’s apocalyptic novel (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"A gripping survival drama (...) a lean, effective adaptation of Megan Hunter's climate-change-themed bestseller"	POS
United Kingdom	Wendy Ide Screendaily	"A post-apocalyptic drama that uses an environmental catastrophe as a lens through which to observe female kinship and motherhood"	POS
United States	Gregory Ellwood The Playlist	"This may feel like familiar territory to another U.K.-set disaster film, 'Children of Men', or the recent mini-series 'Station Eleven', but Belo has crafted something singular here. And you won’t forget it"	POS
United States	Damon Wise Deadline	"There are few disaster movies that get under your skin by being as strange, creative and imaginative as this"	POS
United States	Tomris Laffly rogerebert.com	"The energy of 'The End We Start From' doesn’t always sustain itself, as the story runs out of risky ideas to put Comer in danger’s way. But her performance rises about all such minor obstacles (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Rafa Sales Ross IGN	"A story as muddy as the flooded grounds of Hyde Park in a post-apocalyptic drama that fails to nail the human connection at its core"	NEG
United States	Nate Richard Collider	"Above all else, 'The End We Start From' is the perfect acting showcase for Comer"	POS
United Kingdom	Olly Richards Time Out	"Comer is superb (...) If the film ends up somewhere a little too neat, Comer makes the journey always worthwhile (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Jodie Comer shines in all too believable disaster drama (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Laura Denning Empire	"Prettily shot and with moments of emotional power thanks to Jodie Comer’s performance, 'The End We Start From' is involving and unpredictable, yet strangely cold when it should be searing (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"Jodie Comer shines in a survival drama where most of the action takes place inside her character’s head (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Jourdain Searles The Hollywood Reporter	"The film takes a quiet, emotional approach to the end times, with director Mahalia Belo favoring a meditative visual style"	POS
United States	Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"It is worth it to stick with 'The End We Start From' for Jodie (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Nick Schager The Daily Beast	"The Emmy- and Tony-winning actress is typically transfixing in 'The End We Start From' at TIFF. But the dystopian movie she stars in is disappointingly scattered and disjointed"	NEG
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"[It] leaves most of its spectacle to the imagination, freeing Belo to train her camera on the whirlwind of emotions that storm across Comer’s face"	POS
United States	Christopher Schobert The Film Stage	"A strong survival tale led by a remarkable Jodie Comer"	POS

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