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Their Finest (2017)

April. 07,2017
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6.8
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R
| Drama Romance War
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During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters who undertook their own maritime mission to rescue wounded soldiers are met with mixed feelings by a dismissive all-male staff.

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ThedevilChoose
2017/04/07

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

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TaryBiggBall
2017/04/08

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

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Bob
2017/04/09

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

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Kayden
2017/04/10

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

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mickmarshall-50977
2017/04/11

The only good things to take away from this film were the performances of Bill Nighy and his agents. It was overly sentimental and the characters had neither chemistry nor believability.

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jonathan-harris17
2017/04/12

Wartime-set drama (during the Blitz), that's part cap-tip to working women, part acclamation to the power of cinema.Arterton as the lead, Catrin, is hired early on as the sole woman on a small script writing team for the Ministry of Information, looking to the inspire the many at home and Americans abroad into joining the war in one swoop.Arterton is solid enough in her portrayal, and the script nuanced enough to push the stories & plight of women in general with tact -- no grandstanding here -- and she's an entertaining, bright foil to Sam Claflin's lead-writer Buckley.The romantic sub-plots here are a little to predictable, as is the denouement, thought Catrin is interesting enough for these to be passed off as forgivable.The film clearly takes some delight in it's portrayal of old-timey film-making, and the actors working on them (Bill Nighy a deft-hand here as usual).Entertaining, charming stuff here with a nice trim running time and engaging performances. Nothing especially stellar.

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Andres-Camara
2017/04/13

I do not know if they tried to do something else. I do not think so. But at least they have managed to make a movie that you see with affection. Gema appears and fills the screen and you follow her to see what happens to her, although you know perfectly how it will end, but the film is credible and that is not all.He takes many things as a caricature and makes them as such but he does them well.The three protagonist actors are great, but the others are also very good. Is that even those who have to fall ill, you like. That is difficult to achieve and get the viewer in your pocket.Costumes, makeup and art are splendid. They manage to get you into that historical moment.Photography is very good, it's very English and that's good. There are moments that bring a lot of light, but at least they are few.The address, although it does not make plans that look nice to me. But at least, it takes the movie well, it does not bore you and it puts you in your pocket. Get you watch the movie and follow it to the end.It's a movie to see the

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TxMike
2017/04/14

My wife and I watched this at home on DVD from our public library.The story starts in 1940, England is in a bad way with Germany bombing them often. They desperately want the USA to enter the war but, as we know now, it took Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in late 1941. Still, this movie is about making a film that not only would help keep the British calm but adding an American hero might get the USA more interested.Back in the 1940s there was no TV, not much radio, so it was mentioned that 30 million Brits, plus 90 Million Americans, attended movies. "Movies are like real life but with the boring bits left out."Gemma Arterton is Catrin Cole, a secretary, but with most of the young men in the war her writing was noticed. It was good, she was recruited to help develop the story and script for the movie. She has to work with Sam Claflin as writer Tom Buckley, in general looking down upon women, but somehow, gradually the two form attractions for each other. Catrin goes by "Mrs" but isn't actually married. When she goes back home to surprise her boyfriend and finds him in bed with a woman that takes care of that.My favorite here, as in many movies he is in, is Bill Nighy as snooty veteran actor Ambrose Hilliard. And, in a smaller role, Jack Huston is good as the cheating artist boyfriend Ellis Cole.Overall a pleasant, entertaining movie. But being primarily British it is often difficult to make out what they are saying, especially Claflin's lines, he tends to mumble a lot so we had to turn on the captions and replay important segments to fully understand what they were saying.

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