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  Review by Monica Castillo ★★½ 1

  I am a feminist, which means I believe in the equal rights of men, women and gender non-conforming folks to their own mediocre historical fiction.

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  Review by davidehrlich ★½ 3

  pains me to say about such a well-intentioned & regrettably urgent film, but this is awful. Inert, muddled, poorly shot (close-ups and shaky-cam are almost as bad a combination as men and unbridled legislative power).

  Mulligan is sturdy, but what else is new?

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  Review by Jane Firehorse ★★★★

  Honestly I don't care if this is a "good" movie.
  God damn it, women,
  We go on.
  Let us never stop. <3

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  Review by 𝚮𝖆𝖗𝖑𝖊𝖖𝖚𝖎𝖓𝖆𝖉𝖊 🎃🕯️👻 ★★★★ 2

  What you gonna do? Lock us all up? We're in every home, we're half the human race, you can't stop us all.

  The fact that it's a century later and women still have to fight for freedom, rights and the ownership of our own bodies as society still views us as broodmares and second class citizens is beyond infuriating.

  But all of that builds character. Ladies, men won't ever know the strength and endurance we have. We don't give up because it's not in our nature and one day the fight will be won.

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  Review by Bethany ★★★½

  "We break windows, we burn things. Cause war's the only language men listen to! Cause you've beaten us and betrayed us and there's nothing else left! What you gonna do? Lock us all up? We're in every home, we're half the human race, you can't stop us all. "

  "You might lose your life before this is over."

  "We will win."

  and win they did, motherfucker

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  Review by kevintporter ★★ 1

  That Meryl is in this for a combined 110 seconds is so funny, she really said "Yeah I'll be in your little historical-girlboss movie. Do I get to do a weird accent? Cool. You have me for 2 hours then I'm fucking audi 5000"

  Hearing Paddington's voice come out of a mean husband feels bad. Suffraging Young Woman, two stars!

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  Review by matt lynch ★★

  Way too tasteful. You wanna throw bombs, then be a bomb-thrower, be BORN IN FLAMES. Gal-Qaeda.

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  Review by aaron ★★★

  gaslight, gatekeep and girlboss for the right to vote

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  Review by 🤟🏻jess🤟🏻 ★★★★

  Ugh that's horrible!.....stupid men.

  an actual quote from my mom while watching this that accurately and succinctly sums it all up i think.

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  Review by Jay ★★★

  So many of the narrative threads go completely unresolved and Emily Davison is pretty much ignored until the final act, which somewhat dulls the impact of her ultimate sacrifice.

  Nevertheless, it is a film with one main purpose: to get you angry about injustice. For all its flaws, it succeeds in that aim. Carey Mulligan and Helena Bonham Carter are fantastic in their respective roles, as too is Anne Marie Duff. Alas, the film fails to explore any of their characters in any particular depth so everything feels rather lacking. Streep's appearance is also so fleeting that you wonder why they bothered casting her in the first place...

  It's not a bad film by any means but it's certainly not the furious masterpiece that the women's suffrage movement deserves.

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  Review by Vince The Cinephile ★★

  Suffragette is special for many reasons. It is directed by a woman, written by a woman, acted by almost women, and focused on a pivotal moment of women’s role in history. Director Sarah Gavron’s film is well-intentioned, yet Suffragette suffers from thin storytelling, and lackluster delivery. This pains me, but it really is. The narrative is very straightforward and stale, but there’s no ground for moral and emotional complexity except for its lead character. The others are written and portrayed in broad strokes. Carey Mulligan playing the lead Maud Watts is pretty solid. As well as the other suffragettes played by Helena Bonham Carter and Anne-Marie Duff. Meryl Streep however is used for the film’s bloody marketing appearing only for four minutes, but yet her scene is basically the ground for the whole movie. Overall, Suffragette is an insubstantial piece of work about a substantial turning point in history.

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  Review by nadine 🔪 ★★★½ 1

  “You want me to respect the law? Then make the law respectable.”

  14th of june 1991 saw the first big women’s strike in switzerland for gender equality so i felt that a bit of cinematic education on women’s movements elsewhere was proper for today. cue Suffragette. 

  while Sarah Gavron’s competent direction shows a firm grip on the sociopolitical unrest of these events through the emotionally moving camera, it is predominantly Carey Mulligan’s laundress who drives home the timeless urgency of the working woman standing up to the literal man. flawed character writing is overcome by her dedicated performance and the strong sense of immediate solidarity with these ladies makes for a captivating portrait.

  it ticks the same boxes as many…