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This Is England (2006)

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93

Average Rating: 7.7/10
Reviews Counted: 90
Fresh: 84 | Rotten: 6

A moving coming-of-age tale that captures the despair among England's working-class youth in the 1980s.

93

Average Rating: 7.6/10
Critic Reviews: 29
Fresh: 27 | Rotten: 2

A moving coming-of-age tale that captures the despair among England's working-class youth in the 1980s.

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British filmmaker Shane Meadows looks back at his own youth in this semi-autobiographical comedy drama that examines skinhead culture in the U.K. It's the summer of 1983, and Shaun (Thomas Turgoose) is a 12-year-old boy edging into adolescence without a father, his dad having lost his life the year before in the Falkland Islands War. A gang of skinheads -- tough guys in their teens and early twenties who shave their heads, wear Ben Sherman polo shirts, and Dr. Martens boots, and listen to ska

Unrated,

Art House & International, Drama

Shane Meadows

Nov 13, 2007

$95.8k

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How sad and predictable is the fate of those who counsel violence as a means to an end. And yet how poignant it all seems when viewed through Shane Meadows' thoughtful lens.

November 9, 2007 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment (1)
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You wouldn't think a film about a group of British skinheads during the early 1980s could be a sweet, nostalgic coming-of-age period piece, but that's the surprise of the authentic, fresh and utterly relevant This Is England.

November 9, 2007 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail
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Its tough but moving neo-realist approach make it one of the better British films of recent times.

November 9, 2007
Hollywood Reporter
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It may be the best work to date from the talented 34-year-old writer-director of Twenty Four Seven (1997).

September 7, 2007 Full Review Source: Seattle Times
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A drama that's so potent and persuasive yet also natural and intimate that it almost has the heft of a documentary.

September 7, 2007 Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle
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A movie about the allure of groupthink and how the warm comfort of being surrounded by peers wilts all sense of balance.

August 31, 2007 Full Review Source: Detroit News
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It is the war within him--and by extension, within the minds of many embittered, working class young men left behind in Thatcher's England--that Meadows's film most strikingly portrays.

August 8, 2009 Full Review Source: Reverse Shot
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Steeped in the raw mix of ska and punk sound as expression of the youth alienation and misguided rage of those tumultuous times, an alarming voice of the surging army of jobless youth back then dubbed 'no hopers.'

December 22, 2007 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | Comment (1)
NewsBlaze

A rowdy but oddly affectionate gang of local skinhead upstart eccentrics are into generally minor mischief, but as social crisis deepens, so does the skinhead subculture turn a darker corner.

December 22, 2007 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze
NewsBlaze

This is the film that Meadows' deceptively casual, hands-in-its-pockets, neighbourhood storytelling has led up to. A tale of one boy's summer becomes a majestic, unromantic look back at 1980s Britain. With some lovely deleted scenes . . . followed by two

December 22, 2007
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

Stephen Graham delivers a bravura performance as the brooding, mesmerizing Combo, clearly channeling Russell Crowe in Romper Stomper.

December 18, 2007
Manhattan Movie Magazine

This portrait of identity in Thatcher's Britain vividly recreates the youth culture of Ben Sherman shirts and Doc Martens boots.

November 30, 2007 Full Review Source: MSN.com
MSN.com

Riveting.

November 29, 2007 Full Review Source: Orlando Weekly
Orlando Weekly

Meadows obviously knows the working class neighborhoods that he depicts. There's a grit and honesty to his film as he chronicles the mundane details of these kids' lives.

November 15, 2007
KPBS.org

An intelligent, spare, mean-streets sort of story, This Is England features superb performances...

November 9, 2007 Full Review Source: Jam! Movies
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Audience Reviews for This Is England

A bit underwhelming, perhaps due to the big hype. Seemed like some good improvisatory acting but not much else.

Obviously, the skins do have some of the best music which helps any film. Toots rules.
July 4, 2007
brooklynspo

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This is Terrific.
February 1, 2012
Lucas Martins

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    1. Shaun: You look stupid.
    – Submitted by Sara B (12 months ago)
    1. Woody: You look absolutely sterling mate!
    – Submitted by tony c (13 months ago)

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