The Winslow Boy
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79 out of 100

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8.7 out of 10

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  • Starring: Jeremy Northam, Nigel Hawthorne, Rebecca Pidgeon
  • Summary: Set in 1910, The Winslow Boy is based on a real-life story of a young cadet who is accused of stealing a five-shilling postal note. As his case proceeds, it challenges many long accepted legal notions and sets off a national frenzy, exacting a heavy price on the family that takes on his defense. (Sony Pictures Classics)… Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 26 out of 28
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 28
  3. Negative: 0 out of 28
  1. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    100
    This is the kind of movie that literate viewers pine for, laced with gracefulness and wit.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
    80
    Genteel moviemaking with modern overtones, The Winslow Boy is especially good at the visual re-creation of its time.
  3. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: John Patterson
    80
    What's left is "Masterpiece Theatre," a very clean, straightforward adaptation of a beautifully constructed play, faithful to a dead man's classical virtues -- harmony, proportion, balance -- if not to the director's own, more iconoclastic ones.
  4. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Allen White
    60
    Mamet loves to cast his current wives in lead roles -- Whatever you may feel about Mamet's writing, he has an uncanny knack for marrying mediocre actresses.

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