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The veteran director Ken Loach hoists the red flag with The Spirit of '45, a polemical documentary filled with hope and heroism, which takes a look at the resurrection of Britain after the war. Mar 20, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
The veteran director Ken Loach hoists the red flag with The Spirit of '45, a polemical documentary filled with hope and heroism, which takes a look at the resurrection of Britain after the war.
Kate Muir
Using eloquent archive footage and contemporary interviews not exactly representative of the other side of the argument, Loach hammers his points home one by one. Mar 15, 2013 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Using eloquent archive footage and contemporary interviews not exactly representative of the other side of the argument, Loach hammers his points home one by one.
Derek Malcolm
This film reminds us that admiring the health service has become a distinctively patriotic virtue. Mar 14, 2013 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
This film reminds us that admiring the health service has become a distinctively patriotic virtue.
Peter Bradshaw
The film ends up as a tale told by an ideologue, full of sound and fury, of question-begging certitudes and the siege engines of self-righteousness. Mar 14, 2013 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
The film ends up as a tale told by an ideologue, full of sound and fury, of question-begging certitudes and the siege engines of self-righteousness.
Nigel Andrews
Demanding balance from a Ken Loach film is a little like wanting a goat to do a handstand. Mar 14, 2013 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Demanding balance from a Ken Loach film is a little like wanting a goat to do a handstand.
Tim Robey
Preaching to the choir. Mar 14, 2013 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Preaching to the choir.
David Jenkins
A shame that Loach's latest has all the political sophistication of a students' union protest... As it stands, it's a respectable but flawed portrait of national endurance. Feb 11, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
A shame that Loach's latest has all the political sophistication of a students' union protest... As it stands, it's a respectable but flawed portrait of national endurance.
Craig Williams
That The Spirit of '45 survives its simplifications is due to the sincerity and urgency of Loach's argument. And, regrettably, to its pertinence. Oct 3, 2017 | Full Review…
That The Spirit of '45 survives its simplifications is due to the sincerity and urgency of Loach's argument. And, regrettably, to its pertinence.
Ryan Gilbey
What could be, and largely is, a load of old lefties banging on about the wonders of golden age socialism, is also very much intended as a rallying call to action before the last vestiges of state ownership are tossed to the capitalists. Sep 1, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
What could be, and largely is, a load of old lefties banging on about the wonders of golden age socialism, is also very much intended as a rallying call to action before the last vestiges of state ownership are tossed to the capitalists.
Larushka Ivan-Zadeh
A fond postcard from Ken Loach from the era when British socialism with a democratic spirit gripped the nation in a post-war embrace. His sense of cinema serves him well and he knows how to elicit emotions with the various tools at his disposal Nov 30, 2013 | Full Review…
A fond postcard from Ken Loach from the era when British socialism with a democratic spirit gripped the nation in a post-war embrace. His sense of cinema serves him well and he knows how to elicit emotions with the various tools at his disposal
Andrew L. Urban
A thin, misleading and sentimental account of history, and how we got from there to here. Mar 17, 2013 | Full Review…
A thin, misleading and sentimental account of history, and how we got from there to here.
Philip French
A thought-provoking history lesson. Mar 15, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
A thought-provoking history lesson.
Allan Hunter
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