Average Rating: 7.1/10
Reviews Counted: 88
Fresh: 73 | Rotten: 15
All or Nothing's depiction of the working-class can be depressingly bleak, but the performances are wonderfully true to life.
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Critic Reviews: 24
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 6
All or Nothing's depiction of the working-class can be depressingly bleak, but the performances are wonderfully true to life.
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A drama set in present-day London in which a supermarket checkout girl named Penny begins to fall out of love with her taxi-driver boyfriend, Phil. Their daughter Rachel cleans in a home for elderly people, and their son Rory is unemployed and aggressive. The joy has gone out of Phil's and Penny's life, but when an unexpected tragedy occurs, they are brought together to rediscover their love.
Oct 25, 2002 Limited
Feb 18, 2003
MGM Distribution Company
All Critics (100) | Top Critics (26) | Fresh (73) | Rotten (15) | DVD (8)
Mike Leigh goes spelunking in search of the English soul, finds gold.
For close to two hours the audience is forced to endure three terminally depressed, mostly inarticulate, hyper dysfunctional families for the price of one.
An unsentimental, but nevertheless touching and sincere, reflection on the meaning of family and the fragility of love.
Leigh makes these lives count. And he allows a gawky actor like Spall -- who could too easily become comic relief in any other film -- to reveal his impressively delicate range.
It's a challenging film, one that rewards the committed filmgoer.
It is almost impossible to sludge through this tiny morality tale and not recognize bad habits, small and familiar, that we all share -- and also take for granted.
It's all quite tough going, but the actors make it difficult to look away.
On the surface, a dreary, knuckles-down tale of a working class London family.
All Or Nothing may seem depressing, but in fact uplifts us.
Grim but really good.
There's an extended scene (the film's penultimate one) in the family's apartment with a level of verisimilitude that I doubt I'll ever forget.
There's no denying the downbeat nature of All or Nothing -- it's not a frivolous night at the movies. But the story of Phil and Penny wins you with its heart.
...a somber film, almost completely unrelieved by any comedy beyond the wistful everyday ironies of the working poor.
Leigh and his actors succeed in making these characters human and sympathetic and, thus, all the more profoundly sad.
[An] observant film.
Gone has Mike Leigh's usual signature humour here but at All or Nothing's core is his usual basic message that no matter how bleak or desperate life can be, simple acts of kindness and love, can still flourish above everything else, although it's not as slushy or as Hollywood as that sounds. Mike Leigh's films tend to
August 31, 2010Super Reviewer
Grim but genuine study of a struggling working class family and their world on a London estate. Particularly disturbing is the feeling each successive generation is doomed to repeat the mistakes of their parents.
August 11, 2007
Super Reviewer
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