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  • Summary: The humorous, harsh, and movingly human coming-of-age tale of two 12-year-old boys told by screenwriters Meadows and Paul Fraser comes from their own shared childhood experience. (USA Films)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 18
  2. Negative: 1 out of 18
  1. 85
    The most poignant (if hard-hitting) depiction of childhood to show up this year.
  2. Reviewed by: Derek Elley
    60
    An easygoing kitchen-sink comedy with an unsettling final act.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 1
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1
  1. Shane Meadows on form with this moving & occasionally disturbing film based, like most of his stuff, in the East Midlands. Acting is top notch as you would expect but I was still in awe at how good Paddy Considine is as the unhinged yet childlike Morrell. Expand
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