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  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Cleopatra Entertainment
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Cleopatra Entertainment
  • 1 h 34 m

Summary Set in Thatcher’s Britain of the 70’s and 80’s, a time when working class Manchester was beset by unemployment and riots, the film tells the story of 17 year-old Steven (Jack Lowden), a painfully shy, intellectually precocious loner who lives for, and writes about, the burgeoning local music scene—a surprisingly vibrant subculture in an ...

Directed By: Mark Gill

Written By: William Thacker, Mark Gill

  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Cleopatra Entertainment
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Cleopatra Entertainment
  • 1 h 34 m

England Is Mine

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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Summary Set in Thatcher’s Britain of the 70’s and 80’s, a time when working class Manchester was beset by unemployment and riots, the film tells the story of 17 year-old Steven (Jack Lowden), a painfully shy, intellectually precocious loner who lives for, and writes about, the burgeoning local music scene—a surprisingly vibrant subculture in an ...

Directed By: Mark Gill

Written By: William Thacker, Mark Gill

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 19 Critic Reviews
45
11% Positive
2 Reviews
79% Mixed
15 Reviews
11% Negative
2 Reviews

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 19 Critic Reviews
45
11% Positive
2 Reviews
79% Mixed
15 Reviews
11% Negative
2 Reviews

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65
Aug 24, 2017
For the millions of true believers out there, however...the film provides a blissfully melancholy roll call of pleasures.
By Dave White FULL REVIEW
60
Aug 21, 2017
It’s decently and honestly acted by Jack Lowden, who keeps the film alive, but it somehow winds up being a story about always following your dream and never giving up.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
55
Aug 31, 2017
The film isn’t strictly terrible—it is, for lack of a better neutral word, “watchable”—but it also has no real reason to exist.
By Mark Rabinowitz FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 24, 2017
With its bleak, yearning tone and defiantly cloudy color palette, “England Is Mine” has a pleasingly granular feel for its era and location. But its imagining of Morrissey as a self-pitying narcissist, a curiously passive intellectual who can’t get out of his own way, soaks the movie in a wearying inertia.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
50
This cannot be about music if you don’t have the rights. So there’s virtually no on-stage performance content. That means you have to downplay the significance of meeting the big musical collaborators of his life, too.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
40
England Is Mine is fussy and prudish — about erotic longing, and about the rock ‘n’ roll that gives form to it.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
38
England Is Mine is a tour ride through a legend’s formative years that’s more concerned with the familiar signposts than the intricacies of the scenery along the way.
By Derek Smith FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Honlodge Productions
Release Date Aug 25, 2017
Duration 1 h 34 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline On Becoming Morrissey
Website http://englandisminemovie.com/
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Awards

Edinburgh International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
CPH PIX
• 1 Nomination
Dinard British Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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