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Queen & Country

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Ireland, France, United Kingdom · 2014
1h 54m
Director John Boorman
Starring Callum Turner, Caleb Landry Jones, David Thewlis, Tamsin Egerton
Genre Drama

Sequel to Hope and Glory. Bill Rohan, now 18 years old, is living an idyllic life with his family when he receives a military drafting notice. Enlisted to fight in the Korean War, Bill and his fellow conscript Percy navigate the daily experiences of being on the base together, challenging snobbish superiors and finding romance.

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The New York Times by A.O. Scott

Queen and Country doesn’t quite have the bittersweet intensity of its precursor. The terrible magic of the war is missing, and so is the heightened, wide-eyed perceptiveness of the child protagonist.

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Slant Magazine by Clayton Dillard

The film lacks an ability to construct significant instances of character drama as symbolic of larger concerns pertaining to nationalist dilemmas.

70

The Dissolve by Noel Murray

What Queen And Country has going for it that admirers of the original will appreciate—and that total novices can enjoy just as much—is how skillfully Boorman takes major historical events and filters them through small, personal moments.

75

The Playlist by Oliver Lyttelton

Queen & Country is hardly reinventing the wheel, but it's charming, evocative and (mostly) well-performed, and were Boorman to continue with his autobiographical cycle, we'd certainly welcome further installments.

60

The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

Queen and Country is an entertaining and sympathetic guide to a lost world: a rite of passage that Britain was to find it could do without.

75

Observer by Rex Reed

It might prove to be too insular to appeal to a wider movie audience, but to a passionate Anglophile like me, Queen and Country is a funny and nostalgic portrait of a bleak, rationed postwar England still digging its way out of the rubble.

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Variety by Scott Foundas

Queen and Country lacks the immediacy of “Hope and Glory,” in part because there’s no single animating event here to rival the Blitz... But it remains a pleasure to spend time in the presence of these characters, and a third volume — perhaps focused on Bill’s entrance into the British film industry — would hardly be unwelcome.

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The Telegraph by Tim Robey

Admittedly modest, but the epitome of jolly, this is like the companionable second volume of an autobiography in film form – you'll whip through it in no time, and come out wanting more.

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