Pride
CBS Films | Release Date: September 26, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
79
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Generally favorable reviews based on 36 Critic Reviews
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34
Mixed:
1
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
San Francisco ChronicleMichael OrdonaSep 25, 2014
Quite simply, one of the best movies of the year so far. Read full review
100
Time Out LondonDave CalhounSep 9, 2014
It’s a joyous film, full of love and warmth but unafraid to admit that with sticking out your neck comes struggle and sorrow. Truly lovely. Read full review
91
The PlaylistOliver LytteltonSep 25, 2014
The filmmaking is admittedly functional rather than particularly artful, but you somewhat appreciate that Warchus is determined to distract you as little as possible from the story and characters. Read full review
90
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzOct 8, 2014
It's feel-good, no question about it. But it's also absorbing, important and inspiring. Read full review
90
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinSep 26, 2014
What a cast Pride has — some of the best famous actors in Britain and lesser-known younger ones that will (soon) take their place in the firmament. Read full review
90
The New York TimesStephen HoldenSep 25, 2014
It is the kind of hearty, blunt-force drama with softened edges that leaves audiences applauding and teary-eyed. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranSep 25, 2014
Pride is an unapologetic crowd-pleaser of a movie, but it has some potent points to make, and the reality of what happened has a power of its own. Read full review
90
The New YorkerDavid DenbySep 22, 2014
Pride is brilliantly entertaining just as it is, so I trust that no one connected with the film will be insulted if I say that, despite the existence of shows with similarly stirring themes, like “Billy Elliot” and “Kinky Boots,” the story would make a terrific musical. Read full review
88
Chicago Sun-TimesBill ZweckerOct 9, 2014
This film moves effortlessly from some pretty intense dramatic moments to hilarious scenes showcasing the contrasting lifestyles of the gay and straight worlds to some vignettes of incredible poignancy. Read full review
88
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliOct 9, 2014
Pride will get viewers cheering while reflecting upon how far we have come in 30 years… and how far we have yet to go. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comOdie HendersonSep 26, 2014
The Brits do this type of crowd-pleaser far better than Hollywood, if only because films like “The Full Monty” and “Billy Elliot” were unafraid to temper sweetness with darker elements of reality. Read full review
88
ObserverRex ReedSep 24, 2014
A joyous, well-researched and liberating film in the feel-good spirit of "Billy Elliot," "The Full Monty" and "Calendar Girls." Read full review
88
Rolling StonePeter TraversSep 11, 2014
Pride naively thinks it can change the world with a single movie. Talk about fighting spirit. I couldn't have liked it more. Read full review
80
CineVueJohn BleasdaleOct 9, 2014
It's a feel good movie but also a refreshing blast from the past, expressing a nostalgia for a time when political quietism and apathy had not won the day and a Billy Bragg song made more than historical sense. Read full review
80
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternOct 2, 2014
Pride may not be a model of impeccable craftsmanship, but it's a fine example of turning a terrific subject into a gleeful event. It's also an example of the power of entertainment — of entertainment within entertainment. Read full review
80
NPRBob MondelloSep 29, 2014
It says something that 30 years after the events it depicts, Pride should feel so unexpectedly rousing. People cooperating across ideological lines? Finding common cause with folks they don't 100 percent agree with? What a concept. Read full review
80
Village VoiceStephanie ZacharekSep 28, 2014
Pride hits some bumpy patches when it switches gears between comedy and gentle pathos, which it does often. But its spirit is bold enough to power through the rough spots. It’s easy to find fault with Pride, but it’s not so easy to resist it. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneySep 28, 2014
The film is funny, warm-hearted and enormously satisfying. Read full review
80
VarietyCharles GantSep 28, 2014
While some broad strokes won’t be to everybody’s taste... overall the film is so warmhearted, its themes of friendship and mutual respect so resonant, that few will begrudge it such heightened moments. Read full review
80
New York Daily NewsGraham FullerSep 27, 2014
Among the actors, potential Oscar nominee Nighy is deeply affecting, but everyone in this rousing movie impresses. Read full review
80
Total FilmNeil SmithSep 7, 2014
A feel-good charmer with an important message, Pride will have you clutching your sides, wiping your eyes and punching the air in triumph. Read full review
80
EmpireAngie ErrigoSep 7, 2014
A clear winner that makes you laugh, cry, and generally want to party and parade like it’s 1984. Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaOct 10, 2014
British screen stalwarts Bill Nighy and Imelda Staunton appear as locals - he twitchy and reticent, she chatty and full of cheer, both with their hearts in the right place. Read full review
75
Portland OregonianMarc MohanOct 9, 2014
Pride should leave audiences smiling and inspired. But it would have been a much more groundbreaking film if it had been released 30 years ago. Read full review
75
Washington PostAnn HornadayOct 9, 2014
Even when it skates recklessly close to shopworn cliches, Pride manages to navigate around them with vigor, as well as disarming, even wholesome, open-heartedness. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeTy BurrOct 9, 2014
The film’s energy is contagious. Read full review
75
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsOct 9, 2014
One one level, Pride is as fake as a lip-sync revue, yet the emotions it arouses are real. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsOct 9, 2014
Parts of Pride are shamelessly escapist, as when party-mad Jonathan (Dominic West) busts loose with a disco routine, surely the most outre thing ever to hit Onllwyn. But nearly all of it's engaging. Read full review
75
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeSep 26, 2014
At its best moments, Pride makes the chest flutter and the neck hairs stand up with the revolutionary adrenaline that comes from a potent protest song. Read full review
75
New York PostLou LumenickSep 24, 2014
Stephen Beresford’s script’s has its cornball fish-out-of-water touches to be sure, but Pride is a bona fide crowd-pleaser — wearing its heart on its sleeve as the film builds to an ending that’s as satisfying as it is surprising. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyJoe McGovernSep 24, 2014
Celebrated theater director Mathew Warchus (Matilda, The Norman Conquests) unstiffens many of the script's clichés by affecting a sparkling, musical tone — producers have stated their intentions to bring Pride to Broadway, à la fellow miners-strike movie "Billy Elliot." Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleWilliam GossOct 8, 2014
If Pride manages to be somewhat reductive in its depiction of equal rights activism, at least it’s reductive in the right direction. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Sep 24, 2014
Manipulative but big-hearted, Pride is an ode to activism as a social equalizer, and a gushy illustration of the belief that hearts and minds can be changed, and that it’s impossible to truly battle oppression without opposing all forms of oppression. Why resist? Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Geoff PevereSep 25, 2014
Even the worst homophobes are viewed as simply potholes on the highway to enlightenment, and Maggie herself appears on TV only long enough to get the channel changed. Read full review
60
The DissolveMike D'AngeloSep 16, 2014
No matter how much this story has been streamlined for accessibility’s sake, its import remains potent. In spite of numerous missteps, Pride gets that across. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineElise NakhnikianSep 22, 2014
The film the tough true story has spawned is as formulaically cheery, didactically "uplifting," and fundamentally false as a Disney sports movie. Read full review
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