Another Year (2010)
Average Rating: 8.1/10
Reviews Counted: 160
Fresh: 148 | Rotten: 12
Characterized by strong performances and the director's trademark feel for the nuances of everyday life, Another Year marks another solid entry in Mike Leigh's career of kitchen-sink English drama.
Average Rating: 8.9/10
Critic Reviews: 33
Fresh: 31 | Rotten: 2
Characterized by strong performances and the director's trademark feel for the nuances of everyday life, Another Year marks another solid entry in Mike Leigh's career of kitchen-sink English drama.
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British filmmaker Mike Leigh delivers another emotionally honest portrait of ordinary people trying to make sense of their lives in this comedy drama. Tom (Jim Broadbent) and Gerri (Ruth Sheen) are a couple who are drifting past middle age into their sixties; he's a geologist and she's a psychotherapist. Tom and Gerri have a stable and happy marriage and a grown son, Joe (Oliver Maltman), an activist lawyer who hasn't settled down yet, much to his mother's chagrin. One of Gerri's co-workers and
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Cast
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Jim Broadbent
Tom -
Lesley Manville
Mary -
Ruth Sheen
Gerri -
Peter Wight
Ken -
Oliver Maltman
Joe -
David Bradley
Ronnie -
Karina Fernandez
Katie -
Martin Savage
Carl -
Michele Austin
Tanya -
Phil Davis
Jack -
Stuart McQuarrie
Tom's Colleague -
Imelda Staunton
Janet -
Eileen Davies
Mourner -
Mary Jo Randle
Mourner -
Ben Roberts
Mourner -
David Hobbs
Vicar -
Buddy Uzzaman
Mr. Gupta -
Meneka Das
Mr. Gupta's Friend -
Ralph Ineson
Drill Worker -
Edna Dore
Allotment Lady -
Gary Powell
Man in Bar -
Lisa McDonald
Girl in Bar
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All Critics (161) | Top Critics (34) | Fresh (149) | Rotten (12) | DVD (3)
See it at your own risk -- but don't miss it.
Top CriticDesperation and fulfillment, anxiety and warmth, pain and contentment -- all come together in the darkly splendid Another Year.
Mike Leigh's films are one of a kind.
Another marvel of perfectly drawn, fully realized characters created from the ground up and brought to aching and glorious life.
It all comes down to affirmation vs. denial. Leigh chooses affirmation. And the result is life-affirming.
[Leigh] may well have made his happiest - and best - movie.
It's not the most focused Leigh movie, but plot has never been his strong suit.
Leigh sculpts Another Year in time like Edgar Degas painted a picture.
Mike Leigh is often dumped in the dour, 'kitchen sink' genre of British filmmaking, but that is to overlook his wily sense of humor.
Leigh creates a fascinating diorama in which life-long and contented couple Tom and Gerri sit in sympathy and in judgement on the lonely friends that orbit them.
[Observes] the thin lines and acute angles which separate well-adjusted people on a continuing path of contentment from the less fortunate ones who live lives of regret and desperation.
The Hepples are a joy to watch. ... Think about it. How often do we see a great marriage on the big screen?
There's a lot of anger and misery around them and yet it's amazing how this film... can also be so warming and affirming.
The orbits of friendship remain in balance
Brilliantly acted and unafraid of pain, Mike Leigh's latest takes us to uncomfortable places
Not a film of direct conflict or suspense, but one that nurtures a sinking feeling of unease and sadness, watching as some of these characters fall deeper into hopelessness, almost to spite the happiness around them.
A masterful exploration of aging, family bonds, strength and loneliness. As with all his films, Leigh has reflected both the joy and the struggle of living a real life.
Mike Leigh is a master of bringing awkward characters to life and making them sympathetic.
What's great about this alternately cozy and depressing domestic drama from Mike Leigh is how matter-of-fact it is.
Actors will tell you that Leigh's method gives their characters a hinterland. Why is it, then, that they so often look to me like exaggerated caricatures?
A small symphony of maddening looks and recoils, simmering with Ozuisms and a coziness that couldn't be more confronting.
Endearing family drama, offering generous dollops of Ozu-like wisdom for dealing with the mundane.
Audience Reviews for Another Year
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- Carl: Don't need an interrogation.
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- Mary: It's so exciting, isn't it? I feel like Thelma and Louise. This little car is going to change my life.
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- Gerri: Life's not always kind, is it?
- Mary: No, it isn't, Gerri.
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- Tom: It's the young person's prerogative to be noisy.
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- Tom: It's just that the older you get the more relevant it seems. To state the bleedin? Obvious.
- Girl in Bar: We'll be a part of history soon.
- Tom: Exactly.
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- Mary: He didn't. But he wasn't a bad person. He loved me.
- Tom: Sounds to me like he was a duplicitous shit.
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