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Misbehaviour

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United Kingdom · 2020
1h 47m
Director Philippa Lowthorpe
Starring Keira Knightley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jessie Buckley, Keeley Hawes
Genre Comedy, Drama, History

In 1970, the Miss World competition took place in London, hosted by US comedy legend, Bob Hope. Claiming that beauty competitions demeaned women, the newly formed Women’s Liberation Movement achieved overnight fame by invading the stage and disrupting the live broadcast of the competition to protest the Western ideal of beauty.

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60

Empire by

Knightley and Mbatha-Raw headline an excellent band of British talent, but the film’s focus feels sadly misguided. There’s a great story within Misbehaviour — we just don’t get to see enough of it.

50

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Barry Hertz

Each performer tries their best to inject the material with energy and wit and verve, but Rebecca Frayn and Gaby Chiappe’s script has too many threads to weave together, leaving everyone looking a bit stranded.

70

The Hollywood Reporter by Leslie Felperin

The jocular, amiable tone helps deliver the more serious social history lesson throughout, even if sometimes it feels like it’s shouting just a little too loudly to wake up the dimmer students at the back of the lecture hall.

50

The New York Times by Manohla Dargis

Like most commercial movies about feminist history, though, it also has a toothless vision of protest and empowerment that’s doomed to fail its subject because its makers don’t (can’t) risk making the audience uncomfortable.

80

The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

If there is a tonal uncertainty in this comedy, then that’s because there was a tonal uncertainty in the real-life events, and the movie nicely conveys how they were at one and the same time deadly serious and Pythonically silly.

75

Chicago Sun-Times by Richard Roeper

Following the playbook of “The Full Monty,” “Calendar Girls,” “Military Wives,” et al., Misbehaviour achieves just the right mix of farcical humor, dry wit and the obligatory dramatic moments when the light banter and sight gags give way to Poignant Confrontations reminding us there are serious undertones to this breezy romp.

75

Boston Globe by Ty Burr

Misbehaviour is intersectional to a fault, and keeping all those balls in the air is almost more than the movie can handle.

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