"England Is Mine" reviews (Hollywood Reporter, The List, Scotsman, HeraldScotland + more)

'England Is Mine': Film Review | Edinburgh 2017 - The Hollywood Reporter
By Neil Young

EIFF 2017: This unauthorised Morrissey biopic has its moments but will frustrate fans - The List
by Emma Simonds (2 of 5 stars)

Edinburgh International Film Festival review: England is Mine - The Scotsman
By Alistair Harkness (3 stars)

Alison Rowat Edinburgh International Film Festival review: England is Mine - HeraldScotland
by Alison Rowat (3 stars)


UPDATE:

England Is Mine: Film Review - The Skinny. Link posted by I_Am_A_Disco_Dancer.
by Rachel Bowles (3 stars)

England Is Mine(2017) - The Fan Carpet. Link posted by an anonymous person
by Jen Scouler (4 of 5 stars)

England Is Mine': Edinburgh Review - Screendaily. Link posted by I_Am_A_Disco_Dancer.
by Wendy Ide

England Is Mine: Reviewing ‘Mr Hard To Get’ - Julie Hamill. Link posted by Famous when dead.

EIFF 2017: England is Mine Review - SeenSome. Link posted by I_Am_A_Disco_Dancer.
by Adam Mulgrew (4 of 5 stars)

Movie review: An angsty insight into the birth of Morrissey myth in England Is Mine - The National. Link posted by I_Am_A_Disco_Dancer.
by Ross Miller

Edinburgh 2017: England Is Mine review - Cinevue. Link posted by I_Am_A_Disco_Dancer.
by Jamie Leish (3 of 5 stars)

REVIEW: ENGLAND IS MINE - Geek Ireland. Link posted by an anonymous person.
by Tracy Sayers ( 4.5 of 5 stars)

England is Mine - entertainment.ie. Link posted by I_Am_A_Disco_Dancer.
by Gavin Burke (4 of 5 stars)

Movie Review: England is Mine - Comic Crusaders. Link posted by I_Am_A_Disco_Dancer.
by Garth Cremona (3 1/2 of 5 stars)

#Review: England Is Mine - Scannain. Link posted by an anonymous person.
by Garth (4.0 of 5)

Reviewed: Morrissey biopic, England Is Mine: William, it was almost something - Uncut. Link posted by I_Am_A_Disco_Dancer.
by Michael Bonner

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Links posted by I_Am_A_Disco_Dancer:

Review from the September 2017 issue of Mojo - there isn't a link so the review is below (there is also a nice interview with Jack Lowden in the issue):

Young Winsome: Can a Morrissey biopic make us fall in love with Steven Patrick all over again? Well, I wonder
by Andrew Male (4 of 4 stars)

England is Mine - The Independent Ireland
by Hilary A. White (4 of 4 stars)

England is Mine - The Guardian
by Peter Bradshaw (3 of 5 stars)

Film Reviews Roundup - England is Mine - The Independent
by Geoffrey Macnab (3 of 5 stars)

England is Mine - Little White Lies
by Bojana Duric

England is Mine Review - Hey U Guys
by Linda Marric (3 of 5 stars)

At last! Morrissey goes down in celluloid history - RTE
by Alan Corr (4 of 5)
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England Is Mine review: dull Morrissey biopic is like being crushed in a vice of angst - The Telegraph. Link posted by Famous when dead
by Tim Robey (2 of 5 stars)

England Is Mine reviewed by Robbie Collin - BBC 5 Live / YouTube. Link posted by an anonymous person.

The New Morrissey Biopic Returns to a Time Before He Was Problematic - VICE. Link posted by Calamine Lotion.
by Phoebe Hurst

England Is Mine review: This much-hyped Morrissey biopic doesn’t do the great man justice - Metro
by James Luxford (2 of 5 stars)

England is Mine: Lifeless - Financial Times. Link posted by I_Am_A_Disco_Dancer.
by Nigel Andrews (2 out of 5 stars)

England Is Mine': The Morrissey Biopic That Might Make You Give Him A Second Chance - Esquire. Link posted by I_Am_A_Disco_Dancer.
by Olivia Ovenden

Morrissey biopic England Is Mine – a quiet portrait of a star’s growing pains - The Big Issue. Link posted by I_Am_A_Disco_Dancer.
by Edward Lawrenson

England Is Mine review – a Morrissey mope-fest - The Guardian. Link posted by I_Am_A_Disco_Dancer.
by Wendy Ide

Film Review: The Morrissey Biopic ‘England Is Mine’ - Variety. Link posted by I_Am_A_Disco_Dancer.
by Owen Gleiberman

Film Review: England Is Mine - Trust The Wizards. Link posted by Rebel Rikkit

England Is Mine review - Slant Magazine. Link posted by an anonymous person.
by Derek Smith (1 1/2 of 4 stars)
 
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think I'll see it anyway, maybe some bud will help me suspend disbelief, or I'll just be laughing my head off through the whole thing.

Also Scanty and Quando if you're reading... that post in the other thread is not me singing... just a bad joke directed toward that poster I was replying back to.


  1. Ketamine Sun
    WHAT THE f*** !?

    LEAVE MY MOZZY ALONE! PIG ! :angry:


    BOYCOTT ROME !!!

    BOYCOTT 'SWITZERLAND IS MINE' !!!





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What happened to the boycott then Ketchup Bum ? :laughing::clap:

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think I'll see it anyway, maybe some bud will help me suspend disbelief, or I'll just be laughing my head off through the whole thing.

Also Scanty and Quando if you're reading... that post in the other thread is not me singing... just a bad joke directed toward that poster I was replying back to.

Just to assure you, not that you need it, :popcorn: I thought it was funny and didn't think it was really you singing. It wasn't a bad joke, it was good humoured and not denigrating as such.
By the way, I still like it as a fragment that could be used.
In some way, or the other. :laughing:
 
Brrrr-illiant line from the NYT review that misses the point:
"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."

Yes. Sounds like a very accurate portrayal.
 
Brrrr-illiant line from the NYT review that misses the point:
"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."

Yes. Sounds like a very accurate portrayal.

But misses the point as you stated firmly and to the point. :)
 
Its a little late to the dance...but this is a review from the venerable New York Times - and its blissfully brief.

MrShoes



https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/24/movies/england-is-mine-review.html?_r=0


Review: ‘England Is Mine,’ a Portrait of Morrissey’s Early Years
  • Directed by Mark Gill
  • Biography, Drama, Music
  • 1h 34m
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS

AUG. 24, 2017

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“Heaven knows I’m miserable now,” goes a 1984 ode to alienation by the British band the Smiths. The lyric could also serve as an alternate title for “England Is Mine,” Mark Gill’s unauthorized and unrelentingly dour biopic of the early years of the group’s frontman, Steven Patrick Morrissey.

Unfolding mainly in dingy rooms, whose cheap curtains barely obscure the miserable Manchester streets beyond, this doggedly unilluminating portrait opens in 1976 with the 17-year-old Morrissey (a game Jack Lowden) immersed in Oscar Wilde and the New York Dolls. Fulminating with contempt for England and disdain for the daily grind, he bangs out vitriolic screeds on an old typewriter, the confrontational prose at odds with his diffident manner. There is also a great deal of moping.

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. While we’re all waiting for greatness to find him, though, three hardy women are around to nudge things along: A punkish artist (Jessica Brown Findlay), a hectoring best mate (Katherine Pearce) and his empathetic Mum (Simone Kirby), whose support for her sulky son never wavers.

Skirting sexuality and absent Morrissey’s music (the movie ends in 1982 as he and Johnny Marr are on the brink of forming the band), “England Is Mine” is a soggy schlep. But if you’re among those who believe that great art rarely foments in the cheerfully well-adjusted, then this one’s for you.

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