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  • 2008
  • Gravitas Ventures
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2008
  • Gravitas Ventures
  • 1 h 37 m

Summary A Very British Gangster is an all access film inside one of Britain’s most dangerous crime families. For the first time, a gang of contemporary criminals open their lives to reveal a brutal world and an underclass which relies upon gangsters for justice, rather than police. The film follows the trials and tribulations of Dominic Noonan o...

  • 2008
  • Gravitas Ventures
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2008
  • Gravitas Ventures
  • 1 h 37 m

A Very British Gangster

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Summary A Very British Gangster is an all access film inside one of Britain’s most dangerous crime families. For the first time, a gang of contemporary criminals open their lives to reveal a brutal world and an underclass which relies upon gangsters for justice, rather than police. The film follows the trials and tribulations of Dominic Noonan o...

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Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
59
67% Positive
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33% Mixed
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Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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33% Mixed
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80
Charismatic and complicated, Noonan tries to run the movie the way he runs his town. But while the director sometimes appears to be glorifying Noonan's choices, reminders of uncomfortable reality intrude regularly.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
80
Noonan's life is one few of us can comprehend, and Mac Intyre's documentary, A Very British Gangster, is like a Guy Ritchie film come to life, only with a better dressed cast.
By Pete Vonder Haar FULL REVIEW
70
Investigative journalist Donal MacIntyre's film is fairly standard British TV product, closer to a glorified "60 Minutes" segment then to cinematic art. But never mind -- its subject is, as he might say, feckin' amazing.
By Andrew O'Hehir FULL REVIEW
70
Noonan talks too much, preens too much and simply loves the camera. And the bald, bullish, real-life mobster will likely place MacIntyre's movie among the more commercial nonfiction films of the year.
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70
A Very British Gangster is not only Noonan's story but a profile of a community dealing with poverty and drugs, and seeing no way out. In a sense, Noonan and his cronies are born into a life of crime.
By James Greenberg FULL REVIEW
50
MacIntyre's control over his material is assured at times, particularly when he focuses on Dom's young son, Bugsy, and the other troubled boys who float around the periphery of the Noonan gang.
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40
Plays less like a documentary than an E! exposé of lowlife skulduggery.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Belfast TV3, Bord Scannán na hÉireann / The Irish Film Board, Dare Films, Extreme Productions
Release Date Jul 18, 2008
Duration 1 h 37 m
Genres
Tagline Look after those that look after you F*ck off those that f*ck off you
Website http://www.averybritishgangster-lefilm.com/
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Awards

Cognac Festival du Film Policier
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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