England Is Mine
Cleopatra Entertainment | Release Date: August 25, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
45
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Mixed or average reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
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2
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15
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2
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
65
TheWrapDave WhiteAug 24, 2017
For the millions of true believers out there, however...the film provides a blissfully melancholy roll call of pleasures. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliAug 28, 2017
It’s competently made and sporadically compelling but not likely to pique the interest of anyone unfamiliar with the main character. Read full review
60
Total FilmKevin HarleyAug 21, 2017
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”. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawAug 21, 2017
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. Read full review
60
CineVueJamie 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. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubJosh ModellAug 22, 2017
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. Read full review
55
Paste MagazineMark RabinowitzAug 31, 2017
The film isn’t strictly terrible—it is, for lack of a better neutral word, “watchable”—but it also has no real reason to exist. Read full review
50
The Film StageJose SolísAug 25, 2017
We’re left with a muddled portrait of a young man unaware of the creativity within him, a charming artist in the making who invited us into his life a little too early. Read full review
50
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlAug 24, 2017
[A] muted, sometimes arresting drama. Read full review
50
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisAug 24, 2017
With its bleak, yearning tone and defiantly cloudy color palette, “England Is Mine” has a pleasingly granular feel for its era and location. But its imagining of Morrissey as a self-pitying narcissist, a curiously passive intellectual who can’t get out of his own way, soaks the movie in a wearying inertia. Read full review
50
IndieWireDavid EhrlichAug 24, 2017
A handsome little biopic that’s sopping wet with the same clichés that its whiny hero so adamantly disavows, Mark Gill’s England Is Mine distills the early days of one Steven Patrick Morrissey into an anonymous coming-of-age story that — if not for its keen sense of place — could really be about any mopey white boy whose talents are dulled by torpor. Read full review
50
Screen DailyWendy IdeAug 21, 2017
Without the crucial performance element – we only see Morrissey on stage once – this ultimately feels like a taster; a prelude to the main story. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger 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. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshAug 31, 2017
Mark Gill’s debut feature, England Is Mine, tackles the early life of Moz, but unsatisfyingly stops just short of the Smiths, telling a rather disjointed origin story. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterNeil YoungAug 21, 2017
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. Read full review
40
The TelegraphTim Robey
It takes a special kind of biopic to reduce its subject to the least imaginably interesting version of itself. Read full review
40
VarietyOwen Gleiberman
England Is Mine is fussy and prudish — about erotic longing, and about the rock ‘n’ roll that gives form to it. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoAug 25, 2017
There’s clearly a biopic in Morrissey’s true story. You can hear it in the timbre of his voice and the wit of his lyrics. However, it is not in England is Mine, a flat, disappointing drama that casts Morrissey as a mopey teenager. The man who wrote “How Soon is Now?” deserves better. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineDerek 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. Read full review
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