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I, Daniel Blake

2016

Ken Loach

Dave Johns, Hayley Squires, Briana Shann, Dylan McKiernan ...

7.2

12,476

Drama A middle aged carpenter who requires state welfare after injuring himself, and is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario.

	Author	Review
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"'I, Daniel Blake' is one of Loach’s finest films, a drama of tender devastation that tells its story with an unblinking neorealist simplicity that goes right back to the plainspoken purity of Vittorio De Sica"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"There are shades of Dickens and Orwell in this emphatic drama (...) Loach’s movie offends against the tacitly accepted rules of sophisticated good taste: subtlety, irony and indirection (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"'I, Daniel Blake', is quintessential Loach (...) yet while the framework and perspective are familiar, the veteran Brit director's films can still have the power to grip us in an emotional chokehold"	POS
United States	Steve Pond The Wrap	"Standout performances highlight Loach’s occasionally heavy-handed but moving study of working-class struggles"	POS
United Kingdom	Geoffrey Macnab The Independent	"A melodramatic and sometimes very didactic film but also an intensely moving one (...) marginalised characters with wit, anger and humanity (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"This film treads fearsomely complex, splintery terrain – and the more complex it acknowledges it to be, the better (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Christy Lemire rogerebert.com	"The sweetness and simplicity of their arrangement is the film’s chief bright spot in an otherwise complicated world (...) Loach is using the medium (...) to shine a light on injustices (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"[It] is a powerful return to form for Mr. Loach (...) [He] is still in full command as a filmmaker and a social critic (...) Its performances (...) are so fine-tuned..."	POS

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