Withnail and I Reviews
ColeSmithey.com
Perhaps Britain's most beloved cult film, Bruce Robinson's 1986 semi-autobiographical dark comedy is an obsessively observed character study.
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| Original Score: A
Groucho Reviews
One of the funniest elements of Withnail & I is that it concerns three varieties of drama queen: the flamboyantly dark-minded Withnail; neurotic, ill-equipped Marwood, and the larger-than-life Monty. [Blu-ray]
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
A defining rites-of-passage classic film.
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| Original Score: A
Guardian [UK]
It's much funnier, and sadder, watched stone-cold sober.
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| Original Score: 5/5
TV Guide's Movie Guide
A hilarious black comedy and already something of a cult favorite.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Top CriticSet in 1969 England, it portrays the last throes of a friendship mirroring the seedy demise of the hippie period, delivering some comic gems along the way.
Guardian [UK]
It is at once a coming-of-age comedy and a fond farewell to an era.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Financial Times
A modern classic? A brilliant vignette of a certain time and attitudes? A self-indulgent jeu d'esprit? One thing is certain: Richard E. Grant touched greatness.
Film4
The best British comedy ever made? Possibly. A masterpiece? Unquestionably.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Total Film
Has any screenplay combined so many quotable lines with such tear-jerking pathos or blatant homophobia?
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| Original Score: 5/5
Combustible Celluloid
It's hilarious in a kind of off-beat, sideways sort of manner.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
A biting script from writer-director Bruce Robinson and performances from Richard E Grant and Paul McGann as two 'resting' actors, Withnail and 'I', that neither has surpassed.
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| Original Score: 5/6
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Arch, smug, exquisitely British, and truly hilarious.
| Original Score: 5/5
