Once Upon a Time in the Midlands
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 4 Ratings
- Starring: Kathy Burke, Rhys Ifans, Robert Carlyle
- Summary: Patterned after a spaghetti western, this is the story of a small time crook (Carlyle) who returns to his hometown in the English Midlands to try to win back the heart of his ex-lover, who is being pursued by another man.
- Director: Shane Meadows
- Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Romance
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Positive: 11 out of 23
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Mixed: 11 out of 23
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Negative: 1 out of 23
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80Marvelously involving family saga.
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75It evokes the atmosphere of a Sergio Leone Western, sneaking up under the movie's human comedy and adding a smile.
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60There are pages missing from this fable: Meadows reports that his financiers asked him to cut one-quarter of his original script just before production began, and his fondness for long takes sits uneasily beside the apparent gaps in the narrative.
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38After 45 minutes of incomparable boredom, the movie gets slightly better when it stops reaching for cheap yuks and lets the actors do what they do well.
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Positive: 3 out of 3
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