Reviews
Mar 16, 2021
It Always Rains on Sunday might be called "kitchen-sink noir."
Oct 25, 2012
A breathtaking melange of romance and crime drama. A British classic.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Oct 25, 2012
A terrific sense of atmospheric foreboding is contributed by Douglas Slocombe's noirish cinematography and Georges Auric's fate-filled score.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Oct 24, 2012
The drama is managed without condescension and with enormous skill.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Mar 26, 2012
Hamer's artful and iconoclastic film mixes a day in the life of a working-class family with a startling prison-break melodrama.
Nov 17, 2011
A resolutely downbeat - remarkably so for Ealing Studios - account of a day in the life of Bethnal Green...
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| Original Score: 5/5
Jan 9, 2009
This is a mostly forgotten gem.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Oct 18, 2008
[Hamer] shows a fluency with noir's shadowy visual vocabulary, but what really links this to the genre is its sense of haunting regret and lost opportunity.
Oct 18, 2008
A real gem.
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| Original Score: 5/5
May 6, 2008
Offers some nicely authentic backgrounds, an expert performance by Googie Withers and a breathtaking finale. But the net effect is disappointing.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Mar 19, 2008
It Always Rains on Sunday is a masterpiece of dead ends and might-have-beens, highly inventive... and brilliantly acted...
Mar 6, 2008
It's a cannily crafted and satisfying entertainment.