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Mrs. Lowry & Son brings a pair of outstanding actors together -- and tests the limits of how much two performances can do to enliven a substandard script.
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Both actors give this bed-bound script their all and their jousting is enjoyable if you like other people's pain. Nov 27, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Both actors give this bed-bound script their all and their jousting is enjoyable if you like other people's pain.
Paul Byrnes
If often sad and unsettling, the film is also livelier and less oppressive than it may sound thanks to the fine writing, deft direction by Adrian Noble, and the superb, if painful interplay between Redgrave and Spall. Nov 1, 2019 | Full Review…
If often sad and unsettling, the film is also livelier and less oppressive than it may sound thanks to the fine writing, deft direction by Adrian Noble, and the superb, if painful interplay between Redgrave and Spall.
Gary Goldstein
A one-note and strangely listless work that brings together two of the most immensely talented actors working today. Nov 1, 2019 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
A one-note and strangely listless work that brings together two of the most immensely talented actors working today.
Peter Sobczynski
Both Spall and Redgrave feel stifled and stiff-jointed, hemmed in by a thin, shallow-focus script that betrays its origins as a radio play all too easily. Oct 31, 2019 | Full Review…
Both Spall and Redgrave feel stifled and stiff-jointed, hemmed in by a thin, shallow-focus script that betrays its origins as a radio play all too easily.
Guy Lodge
Within three or four short exchanges she establishes Mrs Lowry as one of the great maternal monsters of cinema, up there with Faye Dunaway in Mommie Dearest or Piper Laurie in Carrie. Aug 31, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Within three or four short exchanges she establishes Mrs Lowry as one of the great maternal monsters of cinema, up there with Faye Dunaway in Mommie Dearest or Piper Laurie in Carrie.
Kevin Maher
Under the direction of theatre veteran Adrian Noble, it's an often stiff and unadventurous affair. Aug 30, 2019 | Rating: 2/5
Under the direction of theatre veteran Adrian Noble, it's an often stiff and unadventurous affair.
Clarisse Loughrey
A fascinating if sometimes repetitive account of an emotionally abusive relationship between mother and son. The outdoor scenes that reference Lowry's paintings lighten the claustrophobia. Jan 21, 2020 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
A fascinating if sometimes repetitive account of an emotionally abusive relationship between mother and son. The outdoor scenes that reference Lowry's paintings lighten the claustrophobia.
Sarah Cartland
Martyn Hesford adapts his play for the screen with this very stagey and often uneasy two-hander, notable for fine work from Vanessa Redgrave and Timothy Spall... Dec 2, 2019 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…
Martyn Hesford adapts his play for the screen with this very stagey and often uneasy two-hander, notable for fine work from Vanessa Redgrave and Timothy Spall...
David 'Mad Dog' Bradley
Timothy Spall's performance is a sterling study of understatement and pent-up frustration opposite a bed-bound Venessa Redgrave, who plays his domineering, ego-crushing horror of a mother. Nov 27, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Timothy Spall's performance is a sterling study of understatement and pent-up frustration opposite a bed-bound Venessa Redgrave, who plays his domineering, ego-crushing horror of a mother.
Jim Schembri
...has a small canvas (sorry), and it suffers from a certain determined ordinariness, but it is affecting in other ways. Nov 27, 2019 | Rating: 16/20 | Full Review…
...has a small canvas (sorry), and it suffers from a certain determined ordinariness, but it is affecting in other ways.
Julian Wood
On the screen, Mrs Lowry and Son, much like one of Lowry's own paintings, is a wee gem on a small canvas, full of loving details within its apparently simple and unadorned style. Nov 27, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
On the screen, Mrs Lowry and Son, much like one of Lowry's own paintings, is a wee gem on a small canvas, full of loving details within its apparently simple and unadorned style.
Graeme Tuckett
An essay on family, and life, by two of the greatest living actors. Nov 10, 2019 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…
An essay on family, and life, by two of the greatest living actors.
Ron Wilkinson
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