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England Is Mine

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United Kingdom

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2017

1h 32m

Director Mark Gill

Starring Jack Lowden, Jessica Brown Findlay, Simone Kirby, Peter McDonald

Genre Drama

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A portrait of Steven Patrick Morrissey and his early life in 1970s Manchester before he went on to become lead singer of seminal 1980s band The Smiths.

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Slant Magazine by Derek Smith

England Is Mine is a tour ride through a legend’s formative years that’s more concerned with the familiar signposts than the intricacies of the scenery along the way.
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CineVue by Jamie Neish

It's a muted affair all in all; the script thin and relatively drama-free, which proves irritating considering the assured performances and flashes of brilliance that do flair up.
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The A.V. Club by Josh Modell

It’s a biopic that ends before its subject’s life-changing work even really begins, so those without the knowledge to fill in the gaps will almost certainly leave wondering why they should care.
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Total Film by Kevin Harley

Lowden and Findlay excel in their roles, but Mark Gill’s Moz-movie needed more: both more music and more “people who are young and alive”.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Neil Young

Mark Gill's feature debut England Is Mine struggles to evoke the atmosphere of its setting — Manchester, 1976-1982 — and to bring its tantalizingly enigmatic subject into satisfying focus.
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Variety by Owen Gleiberman

England Is Mine is fussy and prudish — about erotic longing, and about the rock ‘n’ roll that gives form to it.
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The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

It’s decently and honestly acted by Jack Lowden, who keeps the film alive, but it somehow winds up being a story about always following your dream and never giving up.
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Movie Nation by Roger Moore

This cannot be about music if you don’t have the rights. So there’s virtually no on-stage performance content. That means you have to downplay the significance of meeting the big musical collaborators of his life, too.
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The Telegraph by Tim Robey

It takes a special kind of biopic to reduce its subject to the least imaginably interesting version of itself.
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Screen International by Wendy Ide

Without the crucial performance element – we only see Morrissey on stage once – this ultimately feels like a taster; a prelude to the main story.

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