It is beautifully played, free of the usual tics and twitches and palsies that so often afflict Leigh characters, and Manville, in particular, gives everything she has, which turns out to be an awesome amount.

| Aug 30, 2018

There is something radical in the way Leigh creates such an intimate, closely observed portrait of a marriage and then essentially takes it for granted, looking elsewhere for the drama to propel the narrative.

| Feb 8, 2018

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2011

See it at your own risk -- but don't miss it.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 12, 2011

This humane movie is an ode to joy, albeit of the mature sort.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 4, 2011

Desperation and fulfillment, anxiety and warmth, pain and contentment -- all come together in the darkly splendid Another Year.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 4, 2011

Don't be thrown by the gentle stringed score or the automatic balm of watching rumply British people in cozy sweaters: Another Year is a brutalizer.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 4, 2011

The word is showcases might be in London, might be filled with British mores and mannerisms, but what it is talking about in regards to friendship, family and life is beyond universal.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 3, 2011

Mike Leigh's films are one of a kind.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 3, 2011

Make no mistake: Another Year is brilliant, heart-breaking, life-affirming and ceaselessly engrossing. It's as deeply felt and humane a work of cinema as anything by Zhang Yimou, Federico Fellini or Ingmar Bergman.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 28, 2011

Another marvel of perfectly drawn, fully realized characters created from the ground up and brought to aching and glorious life.

| Jan 27, 2011

It all comes down to affirmation vs. denial. Leigh chooses affirmation. And the result is life-affirming.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 27, 2011

What a challenge it must be to mine our ordinary lives in ways that reveal and revel in the quietly meaningful. It is a challenge British writer-director Mike Leigh meets in Another Year.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 21, 2011

Only Leigh could find so much pathos in ripe, rounded happiness...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 21, 2011

Leigh has found yet another way to express certain incompatibilities of class by framing them as emotional conflicts.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 20, 2011

Mike Leigh creates complete little universes in his films, lived-in worlds populated by naturalistic characters who behave not like people in movies behave, but the way people in real life behave.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 19, 2011

Another Year continues in the vein of Leigh's last feature, Happy-Go-Lucky, considering characters who've made peace with their lives and others who are still at war (and losing).

| Jan 14, 2011

Leigh has made another must-see for art house film goers. He simply does every time he gets behind the camera.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 14, 2011

Extracting big drama out of small events is Mike Leigh's forte, and with his latest little masterpiece, Another Year, the English director pushes himself to the extreme.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 14, 2011

The kind of film that makes you want to go out and hug old people.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 14, 2011