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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.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
38
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.
50
The Hollywood Reporter by Leslie Felperin
Rambling and unfocused but not without its moments.
60
Village Voice by Michael Atkinson
A pleasant old man's movie, in the end, but not one for which Boorman will be remembered.
70
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.
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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
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.
70
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.
60
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.