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  Review by Vishwas Verma ★★★½

  A Sweet and delightful film.
  Callum Turner, Tamsin Egerton ( Loved her since TV series "Camelot", she played Guienevere) and Vanessa Kirby did fab.

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  Review by ghostdinosaur ½

  About the only nice thing I can say about this movie is that Boorman's classical training has stuck with him long enough to refrain from dousing the film in contemporary color correction. It's otherwise abysmal on almost every front.

  EDIT: Actually the other best part is that the poster makes it look super romantic but the characters shown are brother and sister.

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  Review by Filipe Furtado

  Pretty much a late film, complete out of touch with current cinema and very proud of its old fashioned qualities. Sometimes it can come off a bit too generic but Boorman always find a way to add a specific touch to pull it back. Its best passages do manage to be Fordian and I’ve always been fond of homeground war films.

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  Review by Mario Melendez ★★★

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  #29 Queen and Country

  Sergeant Major Bradley = The Deranged Character

  Pros: I want to clarify that I saw this film without having seen its first part Hope and Glory, I think that if you have not seen the first part will not affect that you look at this. In this sequel to the 1987 film, we meet the torturer Sergeant Bradley who is in charge of having under his control a young army of English soldiers during the Korean War in 1952. More than anything there are three things I want to distinguish from this sequel: 1) All the moments in…

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  Review by Mark Cunliffe 🇵🇸 ★½

  I would say that Queen and Country is an overdue sequel to John Boorman's fondly remembered semi-autobiographical 1987 classic Hope and Glory, but that would suggest that the audience was hankering after a sequel in the first place.

  As great though Hope and Glory was, I don't think anyone was really wondering what happened next.

  But Boorman clearly felt the need to explore what did happen to him next, and that was his years of National Service. So we have Queen and Country, a film that purports to be the director's last and is set nine years after the events at the close of Hope and Glory. Though of course, there has been some twenty-seven years since Hope and Glory…

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★½

  A direct sequel to 1987’s Hope and Glory—and the best thing that John Boorman has made since—Queen and Country begins where that film leaves off, continuing the director’s autobiographical account of his relationship with war and the collateral effect it has on the people at its periphery.

  FULL REVIEW ON TIME OUT: www.timeout.com/us/film/queen-and-country

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  Review by Lagerlout ★★ 1

  Film #13 for the Melbourne International Film Festival

  I don't really know what was going on in this film. At times the acting felt forced and completely over the top. And then it felt real and great and moments were had and emotions were felt. And then it was camp and cheesy and cliched and confusing. It felt like a bi-polar ride through an odd timeline with vaguely interesting characters and not a lot of plot.

  I feel like I was out of the loop. I realised later that this is a sequel of sorts, which might explain the feeling of confusion, but then I can't imagine what other information I needed to know to have this film make more…

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  Review by calamityhey ½

  A miserable movie seemingly designed for the Exotic Marigold-set full of lame anglophile signifiers, and light ribald humor with a starry eyed nostalgia for the good old days and Cinema (gushing over Rashomon and Sunset Blvd is the most boring sort of short cut to cool cred for a character). Nearly every performance is hammy as fuck, with Caleb Landry Jones being the worst offender, and the editing is some of the worst I've seen in ages (or potentially a bad script the beleagured editor had to work around). It also features a subplot that delves into nauseating "nice guy" territory and employs so many 1950's coming of age tropes that one wouldn't be wrong to go and double check that this wasn't directed by Rob Reiner. What a sad note for the director of Zardoz to (ostensibly) go out on.

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  Review by viamorone ★½

  that’s a really misleading poster lol

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  Review by Harrison Gale ★★★½

  We LOVE surprise Richard E. Grant!!!!!!!!

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  Review by russman ★★★

  The Hippocratic Oath is a great thing

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  Review by Craig J. Clark

  "What other nation could put on a pageant like this?"

  To wind up his career, John Boorman returned to one of his greatest personal and artistic triumphs, 1987's Hope and Glory, to update us on what becomes of his surrogate, Bill Rohan, when he's called up for National Service in 1952. Now played by Callum Turner, Bill would prefer to while away his days swimming in the Thames -- precisely what he's doing when we first see him -- but the British Army has other plans for this naïve 18-year-old, namely training him to be sent to Korea to fight the Commies. It doesn't come to that, though, since Bill and fellow conscript Percy Hapgood (Caleb Landry Jones), with whom…