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Critics Consensus: With acerbic wit and a mesmerizingly eccentric performance from Benedict Cumberbatch, Brexit energetically renders recent history with unflinching poise.
Critic Consensus: With acerbic wit and a mesmerizingly eccentric performance from Benedict Cumberbatch, Brexit energetically renders recent history with unflinching poise.
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The film does an impressive job explaining the complicated operation while still delivering a fast-paced and entertaining story.
It's simplistic but in its simplicity it captures the appalling crudeness and lack of nuance that is often the populist message from Donald Trump, Doug Ford and others.
It's reductive and ham-fisted in its direction, sure, but still makes for a breezily engaging tale.
Brexit is nicely ambiguous as to whether Cummings is a misguided genius or simply a talented opportunist, and Cumberbatch is excellent at conveying the lonely monomania of a man stubbornly devoted to principles that only he recognizes.
Yet despite such shortcomings, Brexit is worth seeing because it captures big truths about today's politics, and not only in Great Britain.
Cumberbatch's tight-wired performance is the best thing in this brisk but mechanical retread of recent events.
Benjamin Cumberbatch is very good as usual as a single minded organizer who wants to break from the staid conservative politicians who have failed on the issue for years.
Brexit is an OK document of the shocking election, with Cumberbatch giving his usual fine performance. We just wish the movie was more balanced.
It's a handsome but frustrating watch, equal parts civics lecture and dark political farce, with all the lily-white gravitas England's acting community can offer.
The fact is, this film's premise and its central thesis are honestly things that would bore the public.
Cumberbatch is engaging as always, but there's nothing in "Brexit" that's half as clever as the titular cheery little moniker given to Britain's exit that in no way hinted that ramifications could be felt years or even decades later.
For as engaging as the film is in its best moments, its breadth-over-depth approach leaves the whole thing feeling glossy but a little hollow.
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