Churchill
Lionsgate | Release Date: June 2, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
44
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Mixed or average reviews based on 25 Critic Reviews
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3
Mixed:
16
Negative:
6
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38
Boston GlobeTy BurrMay 31, 2017
Unfortunately, Churchill the movie is simply dreadful, a stiff, melodramatic “Great Man” travesty that gets both the larger history and the details wrong while encouraging its star’s most overwrought excesses. What Cox serves in this movie is ham, poorly sliced. Read full review
37
Washington PostAlan ZilbermanJun 1, 2017
Biography, at its most useful, disabuses us from myth, but Churchill has no such ambitions. As both history and entertainment, it’s a drag. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenJun 7, 2017
Fortunately, Brian Cox delivers a bravura performance that keeps things watchable, if not always dramatically truthful. Read full review
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Kate TaylorJun 8, 2017
The script, written by neophyte Alex von Tunzelmann, is appalling, its plot simplistic and its dialogue alternating between misplaced bits of contemporary psycho-babble and improbable grandiloquence. Read full review
20
Paste MagazineDaniel SchindelJun 1, 2017
It’s difficult to think of a biopic that so thoroughly embarrasses its subject in the process of attempting to honor them the way Churchill does. Read full review
12
RogerEbert.comGodfrey CheshireJun 2, 2017
In the annals of historical biopics, Jonathan Teplitzsky’s Churchill stands out as a uniquely awful and tedious caricature of a fascinating subject. Read full review
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