This is a warm, even feel-good film that captures the tradition of its type with near-perfect clarity.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 9, 2023

All of the expected teen coming-of-age tropes turn up, but in a likeable and believable fashion.

| Sep 17, 2021

Gervais and Merchant's feel-good drama hits the spot...

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 19, 2021

Although this appears to start out as a straightforward 70s pastiche... underneath the obvious jokes there is a charming and involving coming of age tale, made all the more appealing thanks to a well-chosen cast.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 28, 2019

An uncomfortable compromise between the evident comic talents that brought Gervais to the fore in the first place, and the commercial apparatus that his popularity has invited

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 10, 2018

For all its flaws, Cemetery Junction left me with a smile on my face having been both emotionally affected and uplifted.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 5, 2018

Gervais now seems adrift in some kind of sub, sub, sub Richard Curtis land, where character, mood and plot are simply thrown out the window and to hell with it.

| Aug 30, 2018

Not funny enough to be a great comedy or impactful enough to be an emotive drama, this inoffensive, lightly amusing story drifts along without much sense of purpose.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 23, 2018

The period setting has been captured to a tee; it's all red bricks, ghastly wallpaper, casual racism and cut-glass fruitbowls. Everything is viewed through a haze of cigarette smoke. It's little wonder the kids want out.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 28, 2012

Gervais has come up with a surprisingly conservative coming-of-age comedy that shows very little of the satirical bite or formal daring of the 온라인카지노추천 shows that made his name.

| Mar 14, 2011

As filmmakers, Gervais and Merchant find a rhythm technically that makes the fact they never find the balance between humor and heart that they've achieved in the past even more of a disappointment.

| Dec 25, 2010

Gervais and Merchant's previous projects mastered the tightrope walk between comic cruelty and earnest drama. With Cemetery Junction, they waver wildly, unveiling some of their ugliest jokes and most saccharine emotional moments to date.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 23, 2010

Beware the comic creators who decide they want to be taken "seriously."

| Sep 4, 2010

A humble riff on the well-worn coming-of-age film. [Blu-ray]

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 30, 2010

Disappointing tale of '70s youngsters devoid of wit or insight.

| Aug 10, 2010

It's a strange hybrid of a film, boasting loudmouth boorishness instead of wit, and fortune-cookie schmaltz instead of heart.

| Aug 10, 2010

An unabashedly feel-good and identifiable crowdpleaser.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 28, 2010

Cemetery Junction successfully creates a visual tone for itself, then, when it comes to dialogue and plot, it goes ahead to make a different film altogether.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 22, 2010

There's a strong autobiographical tone to this British period drama, and the cast is very good. But by never focussing the story in a meaningful way, the film pales in comparison to its nearest predecessor, An Education.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 22, 2010

While Remi Adefarasin's cinematography gives the picture a superficially cinematic sheen, this is essentially small-minded fare, unimaginative in its ambitions and clumsy in its execution.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 21, 2010