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Glorious 39 (2009)

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Reviews Counted:22

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Rotten:11

Average Rating:5.1/10

Reviews for Glorious 39

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An enjoyable conspiracy thriller in the manner of John Frankenheimer's Seven Days in May.

Full Review Source: Observer [UK] | comment Comment
11/27/09
Philip French
Philip French
Observer [UK]

Not glorious. Not good. Just plain old-fashioned duff.

Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK] | comment Comment
11/27/09
David Edwards
David Edwards
Daily Mirror [UK]

Prestigious and serious-minded, but it's still nonsense.

Full Review Source: Independent on Sunday | comment Comment
11/27/09
Nicholas Barber
Nicholas Barber
Independent on Sunday

Stupendous turn from Romola Garai in the lead role but, while this sets up intrigue and atmosphere well, the plot devices creak audibly towards the end.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
11/20/09
Philip De Semlyen
Philip De Semlyen
Empire Magazine

A political yarn – sometimes creepy, sometimes daft – in the Hitchcockian vein.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
11/20/09
Dave Calhoun
Dave Calhoun
Time Out

Poliakoff's flaccid script and indulgent cut undermines a beautifully shot thriller with an excellent cast and original central idea.

Full Review Source: Film4 | comment Comment
11/20/09
Matt McNally
Matt McNally
Film4

For all its sumptuous production design, Steven Poliakoff’s tale of glamorous toffs and treason is so laboured and slow that it’s practically pensionable.

Full Review Source: Times [UK] | comment Comment
11/20/09
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide
Times [UK]

A ripping, old-school conspiracy thriller.

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
11/20/09
Xan Brooks
Xan Brooks
Guardian [UK]

A bizarrely tasteless pet-euthanasia subplot -- clumsy parallels with the Holocaust abound -- is merely the wackiest turn the wildly unconvincing script takes: it’s well below Poliakoff’s more intelligent TV work.

Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph | comment Comment
11/20/09
Tim Robey
Tim Robey
Daily Telegraph

The increasingly camp air of menace is actually pretty enjoyable.

Full Review Source: Little White Lies | comment Comment
11/20/09
Sophie Ivan
Sophie Ivan
Little White Lies

Trapped in a perilous zone between TV and cinema, this wartime conspiracy thriller ploughs through an improbable plot with all the urgency of a snail going through wet concrete.

Full Review Source: Digital Spy | comment Comment
11/20/09
Simon Reynolds
Simon Reynolds
Digital Spy

Unfortunately, Stephen Poliakoff's tale of wartime skulduggery should have stayed on paper. The sort you can flush. Tedious, overlong and laughably unconvincing, the only remarkable thing about it is Bill Nighy's performance. Specifically, how bad it is.

Full Review Source: Sky Movies | comment Comment
11/20/09
Elliott Noble
Elliott Noble
Sky Movies

Poliakoff’s conspiracy thriller about Hitler-pleasers and appalling aristos comes with all the bucolic loveliness you’d expect. But its biggest boost comes from Garai, whose fragile, hypnotic turn should make the actress a gong contender.

Full Review Source: Total Film | comment Comment
11/20/09
Matt Mueller
Matt Mueller
Total Film

There’s much to admire in the film, such as sequences of the often forgotten panic when family pets were systematically put down as war became inevitable, but there’s quite a lot to argue about too.

Full Review Source: This is London | comment Comment
11/20/09
Derek Malcolm
Derek Malcolm
This is London

Poliakoff cleverly translates the mood of fear and uncertainty in Britain into a dark psychological maze that leads Anne to the edge of insanity.

Full Review Source: Radio Times | comment Comment
11/20/09
Stella Papamichael
Stella Papamichael
Radio Times

As a director of child actors, Poliakoff is hopeless. Worst of all, he seems not to have seen many movie thrillers in the past 20 years, for the pacing is pedestrian and the camerawork static, more redolent of bad episodes of Midsomer Murders.

Full Review Source: Daily Mail [UK] | comment Comment
11/20/09
Christopher Tookey
Christopher Tookey
Daily Mail [UK]

Stephen Poliakoff performs his usual routine of conjuring an atmosphere of mystery and intrigue for the first hour and failing to fulfil it in the second.

Full Review Source: Financial Times | comment Comment
11/20/09
Leo Robson
Leo Robson
Financial Times

The cast is impressive – Julie Christie, Jenny Agutter, David Tennant, Hugh Bonneville, Christopher Lee – though more astonishing is why any of them were tempted into such tosh.

Full Review Source: Independent | comment Comment
11/20/09
Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn
Independent

Romola Garai is extremely good but the film is an elegant disappointment.

Full Review Source: Daily Express | comment Comment
11/20/09
Allan Hunter
Allan Hunter
Daily Express

Poliakoff gives the finale a feverish intensity that's genuinely shocking and works surprisingly well.

Full Review Source: ViewLondon | comment Comment
11/20/09
Matthew Turner
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon
 
 
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