These characters are beyond hope -- and caring about.
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10/31/02
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All or Nothing (2002)
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Reviews Counted:87
Fresh:72
Rotten:15
Average Rating:7.1/10
Consensus: All or Nothing's depiction of the working-class can be depressingly bleak, but the performances are wonderfully true to life.
Theatrical Release:Oct 25, 2002 Limited
Synopsis: Following 1999's Oscar-nominated period piece TOPSY-TURVY, acclaimed filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to the familiar terrain of modern, working-class London with ALL OR NOTHING. Yet another... [More]
Starring: Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville, Ruth Sheen, Sally Hawkins
Director: Mike Leigh
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Reviews for All or Nothing
Top Critic[Leigh] has a true talent for drawing wrenching performances from his actors (improvised over many months) and for conveying the way tiny acts of kindness make ordinary life survivable.
10/31/02
A triumph, a film that hews out a world and carries us effortlessly from darkness to light.
10/31/02
Top CriticEven though the runtime is in excess of two hours, I never did find the film to be boring, just relentlessly depressing – until the slight upbeat swing at the end.
10/31/02
The rhythm of their unrelenting despair bonds these hard-luck souls with a bitter melancholy that's both fascinating and repellent.
10/31/02
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10/30/02
It's so realistic and the performances are so dead on.
10/29/02
Top CriticThe movie isn't always easy to look at. But if it is indeed a duty of art to reflect life, than Leigh has created a masterful piece of artistry right here.
10/28/02
Leigh is one of the rare directors who feels acting is the heart and soul of cinema. He allows his cast members to make creative contributions to the story and dialogue. This method almost never fails him, and it works superbly here.
10/26/02
The Southeast London working class housing estate of Mike Leigh's All or Nothing becomes a melting pot for issues that this most humanistic of directors has continually returned to over the years: parents, children, secrets, love, resentment...
10/25/02
Leigh isn't breaking new ground, but he knows how a daily grind can kill love.
10/25/02
Top CriticOnce more, Leigh provides an example of why he's one of the finest directors of actors working today.
10/25/02
It's easy to succumb to the rhythms of this melancholic but humanistic rumination on the meaning of life.
10/25/02
The movie's greatest achievement (apart from the haunting turns from Spall and Manville) is that all this unrelenting bleakness actually goes somewhere.
10/25/02
While none of this is easy to watch, you'll be moved anyway.
10/25/02
Depicts the valiant efforts of some working-class residents of London to pull themselves out of a dungeon of helplessness and hopelessness.
10/25/02
Leigh and his actors succeed in making these characters human and sympathetic and, thus, all the more profoundly sad.
10/25/02
In an outstanding ensemble, Spall is particularly good.
10/24/02
[Generosity] seems to resonate in Andrew Dickson's sweet, melancholy score, in Dick Pope's tactfully beautiful images and in every frame of this sad, resolute film.
10/24/02
Top CriticLeigh and his actors make the everyday a revelatory look at human behavior
10/24/02
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