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Tell It to the Bees is well-acted and well-intentioned -- but often undermined by its frustratingly didactic storytelling.
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Watery romance that has no real feeling to cling to. Jul 24, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Watery romance that has no real feeling to cling to.
Ella Kemp
Tell it to the Bees... is a period drama with no sting. There's no urgency to its message, no passion at its centre. Jul 22, 2019 | Rating: 2/5
Tell it to the Bees... is a period drama with no sting. There's no urgency to its message, no passion at its centre.
Clarisse Loughrey
Yikes. That wasn't pretty. Jul 22, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Yikes. That wasn't pretty.
Kevin Maher
It's a sad quirk of timing that a film about romantic outsiders should feel like part of the herd, but a brighter spotlight would not have done it any favours. Jul 18, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
It's a sad quirk of timing that a film about romantic outsiders should feel like part of the herd, but a brighter spotlight would not have done it any favours.
Robbie Collin
Despite the hefty talent involved, there's a preposterous pass-agg tweeness to this film - a contrived and self-conscious affair adapted from Fiona Shaw's 2009 novel and directed by Annabel Jankel. Jul 18, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Despite the hefty talent involved, there's a preposterous pass-agg tweeness to this film - a contrived and self-conscious affair adapted from Fiona Shaw's 2009 novel and directed by Annabel Jankel.
Peter Bradshaw
It's a cause-and-affect drama earnestly working the gallery. Jul 17, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
It's a cause-and-affect drama earnestly working the gallery.
Nigel Andrews
Totally has the look and feel like something you would see on the BBC. Slow in pacing, solid acting with an engaging story. A small, well made film. Jan 2, 2020 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Totally has the look and feel like something you would see on the BBC. Slow in pacing, solid acting with an engaging story. A small, well made film.
Carey-Ann Pawsey
Tell It To The Bees is buzzing with desire and dances to the tune of humming bees Nov 20, 2019 | Full Review…
Tell It To The Bees is buzzing with desire and dances to the tune of humming bees
Emily Maskell
At first glance, Annabel Jankel's film... could be written off as any other period romance, but the two leads, Holliday Grainger and Anna Paquin share chemistry and understanding that the film becomes a precious moment in time. Oct 23, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
At first glance, Annabel Jankel's film... could be written off as any other period romance, but the two leads, Holliday Grainger and Anna Paquin share chemistry and understanding that the film becomes a precious moment in time.
Katie Hogan
It's kind of adorable, though, even when it's... qualitatively questionable. Aug 8, 2019 | Rating: C | Full Review…
It's kind of adorable, though, even when it's... qualitatively questionable.
Nathaniel Rogers
It's an unsatisfactory film, a strange mixture of pedestrian scene-setting, an uncertain tone and an overarching and overused metaphor of the bees, which at one point takes off into magic realism. Aug 2, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
It's an unsatisfactory film, a strange mixture of pedestrian scene-setting, an uncertain tone and an overarching and overused metaphor of the bees, which at one point takes off into magic realism.
Alexa Dalby
There's nothing all that interesting to it, or anything that distinguishes it from other queer romance dramas. Jul 31, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
There's nothing all that interesting to it, or anything that distinguishes it from other queer romance dramas.
Deirdre Molumby
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