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- 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.
www.nytimes.com › 2017/08/24 › moviesReview: ‘England Is Mine,’ a Portrait of Morrissey’s Early Years
Aug 25, 2017 · Set in Manchester in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, “England is Mine” is mostly the story of a shy, lonely, brilliant young man who hates his job and looks at the growing music scene in his city from afar.
Aug 2, 2017 · England is Mine review – generic Morrissey biopic saved by charming man Jack Lowden. The teenage years of the Smiths frontman are boiled down to a sentimental kitchen-sink drama that’s elevated...
Aug 25, 2017 · 53% Tomatometer 64 Reviews 36% Audience Score 250+ Ratings Talented teenage singer Steven Patrick Morrissey forms a band in Manchester, England, in the 1970s. Inspired by his mother and a young...
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- Jack Lowden
- Mark Gill
- Biography, History, Drama, Music
Aug 24, 2017 · 1h 34m. By Jeannette Catsoulis. Aug. 24, 2017. “Heaven knows I’m miserable now,” goes a 1984 ode to alienation by the British band the Smiths. The lyric could also serve as an alternate ...
- Mark Gill
Aug 16, 2017 · Aug 15, 2017 7:28pm PT. Film Review: The Morrissey Biopic ‘England Is Mine’. A biopic about the early days of Morrissey is a portrait of the artist as a young mope. It's "authentic," but...
Aug 23, 2017 · Features. General. ‘England Is Mine’ Review: Maybe the World Didn’t Need a Young Morrissey Biopic. Distills the early days of Steven Patrick Morrissey into an anonymous coming-of-age story that...
Aug 24, 2017 · ‘England Is Mine’ Review: Morrissey Biopic Feels Like a Perfectly Unhappy Smiths Song. Britain’s most acclaimed ’80s music icon gets solemn, reverent treatment from director Mark Gill and...
