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Nov 16, 2010100Made in Dagenham is a retro romp with heart, smarts, soul and wit that will restore your faith in the power of the picket line.
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88The unexpected thing about Made in Dagenham is how entertaining it is.
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88Sally Hawkins is the heart and soul of Made in Dagenham, but another actress to watch for is the equally wonderful Rosamund Pike. She steals every scene she's in as the sympathetic wife of Rita's sexist boss (Rupert Graves).
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83When she's (Hawkins) on camera, I'd swear the screen bends into a smile.
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80Sally Hawkins cruises into her new movie the same way she did her breakthrough, "Happy-Go-Lucky."
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80It's hard to do justice to Hawkins's acting, because you never actually see it: Her Rita simply is.
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75Gamely depicts an interesting bit of history, but its real message is a matter of principle.
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75One of the most entertaining history lessons you could ever hope to sit through.
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75Even with a large cast, groovy clothes and cool pop songs, Hawkins holds our attention with a combination of modesty and moral strength.
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75To the extent that this mostly sunny excursion succeeds, it's due to the irrepressible Hawkins.
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75This time out, with a few exceptions, the inspiration feels solid and earned, not saccharine and contrived.
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75It's still a spirited look - well written, beautifully acted, full of uplift - at lovably cheeky heroines on the march for a little respect.
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75Sally Hawkins is just plain irresistible in this funny, touching and vital salute to women in the work force.
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70Engrossing and inspiring, despite being the kind of movie in which one of the first words you hear is cheeky.
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70A slow, solid movie that, like Rita, sneaks up on you with its intelligence and pluck.
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70Hawkins' performance as "Dagenham's" unassuming heroine, an amalgam of several key figures who stepped up back in the day, is first-rate and already generating some Oscar talk.
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70The film, while unfailingly entertaining, feels a little small for its subject.
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70Too often the story feels like it's being mined for recycled beats.
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70The real-life tale of a group of female machinists who took on the Ford Motor Co. in England and earned equal pay for women gets a rousing and entertaining telling in Nigel Cole's crowd-pleasing Made in Dagenham.
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67I would rather have seen a documentary about the real women instead of this workmanlike dramatic rendition.
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63Made in Dagenham is a useful lesson in history and a reminder that we yet have a distance to travel to attain the goal, but the narrative is dry, safe, and predictable and, as a result, not fully satisfying.
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63The movie moves, but it doesn't breathe.
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60Uplifting it may be, but to swallow it whole is to believe in happily ever after.
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60Though nothing here is as rousing as "The Pajama Game's" raise-baiting "Seven and a Half Cents," the always-welcome Miranda Richardson steals the film in a small role as Barbara Castle, Labour P.M.
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Nov 15, 201060While the political grit behind the saga is somewhat sidelined, this is a fun watch enhanced by its stellar British cast.
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58Make no mistake. In spite of its worthy subject matter and good intentions, Made In Dagenham remains mediocre to the core.
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50Made in Dagenham does a good job of capturing the period. But too often it's simply put in service to the obvious, as heard in those uplifting choruses of "You Can Get It If You Really Want."
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50Director Nigel Cole is best known for "Calendar Girls" (2003), another condescending exercise in you-go-girl uplift.
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50Plays like "Norma Rae" on blood thinners. The movie is by no means bloodless; every once in a while a stirring scene comes along, though it's seldom a scene labeled as stirring by William Ivory's formulaic script and Nigel Cole's insistent direction.
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50Made in Dagenham offers girl power in a can, lightly seasoned with swinging London and topped with cute-clumsy Sally Hawkins charming us to pieces. But the real women of Dagenham deserve better, and so do their sisters in the audience.
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50Waving a dubious flag of feminist inclusivity, Cole and screenwriter William Ivory turn cartwheels insisting that girl power, even in the 1960s, trumped class divisions.
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