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Queen and Country

2014

John Boorman

Callum Turner, Caleb Landry Jones, David Thewlis, Richard E. Grant ...

4.8

445

Drama Year 1952. Bill Rowan is 18, dreaming his life away at the family’s riverside home, waiting to be called up for two years conscription in the Army. He swims each morning and yearns for a pretty girl who cycles past at that time on the tow path across the river. This idyll is shattered by the harsh realities of boot camp. He meets Percy, an amoral prankster, and together they plot the downfall of Sergeant Yeomans, their rigid tormentor. ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Leslie Felperin The Hollywood Reporter	"Flat and underwhelming, 'Queen & Country' is like one of the chapters readers feel tempted to skim in an autobiography that stops just before it gets to the good stuff."	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"John Boorman's semi-autobiographical follow-up to his wartime drama 'Hope and Glory' is an entertaining, if lightweight, reminiscence of the ups and downs of National Service. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	NEU
United States	Scott Foundas Variety	"John Boorman's sequel to his masterful 'Hope and Glory' doesn't equal its predecessor, but still offers a vivid snapshot of Army and family life in post-War England."	NEU
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"The update is welcome. And so is the portrait, fleeting yet precisely detailed, of Britain at a time of change."	POS
United States	Oliver Lyttelton IndieWire	"'Queen & Country' is hardly reinventing the wheel, but it's charming, evocative and (mostly) well-performed."	POS

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