Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Nov 30, 2001

There's every reason to watch Bread and Roses

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 12, 2001

Presents a slice of life that has hardly made a scratch on American celluloid. With any luck, that scratch will help generate a real itch.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 25, 2001

Loach treats [the story] as a late-breaking sidebar to a narrative that essentially amounts to a tract on the glories of unskilled trade unionism.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 22, 2001

Isn't a bad movie, just a painfully obvious one.

Full Review | Jun 22, 2001

As didactic as it sometimes gets, its heart is always bigger than its ideology.

Full Review | Jun 15, 2001

Loach and screenwriter Paul Laverty draw everything in simplistic, overstated terms.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 11, 2001

There are many intimate scenes that make the characters of Sam, Rosa and Maya very personal.

Full Review | Jun 11, 2001

A tough sell.

Full Review | Jun 8, 2001

The problem with Ken Loach's half-Spanish, half-English film isn't the lefty politics, it's that the Brit knows nothing about Los Angeles.

| Jun 8, 2001

A stirring and thought-provoking look at some uncomfortable truths that most Americans ignore.

Full Review | Jun 7, 2001

You won't be able to look through cleaning people again as if they were invisible. On that count, it's a godsend.

| Jun 4, 2001

Makes a powerfully persuasive case.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 1, 2001

If you want social commentary but absorbing entertainment, gritty realism but fictionalized whimsy, something for the head but something for the heart, too, Bread and Roses delivers.

Full Review | Jun 1, 2001

Will this movie change anything, or this review make you want to see it? No, probably not. But when you come in tomorrow morning, someone will have emptied your wastebasket.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 1, 2001

The film is full of pungent and telling observation.

Full Review | May 31, 2001

It often feels inauthentic, sometimes preachy.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 31, 2001

Yet in a period of stylistic ostentation, Loach's modest transparency of means is salutary.

| May 30, 2001

Preaches to the choir and overreaches its grasp, but it couldn't be timelier.

| May 29, 2001

The strength of this vibrant, stirring film is that it doesn't get sidetracked by trying to encompass a love story, and furthermore dares to end on a note that is decidedly bittersweet.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 11, 2001