The director debut of Simon Bird, this is a really charming drama about family and how being a teenager is really bloody awful.

| Jan 11, 2024

The genre is well-worn, but smart writing and sterling supporting players (Rob Brydon, Tamsin Greig, Alice Lowe) inject it with heartfelt originality.

| Jun 20, 2023

This deceptively well-assembled movie has a lot on its mind and a refreshingly blunt way of letting you know it

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 30, 2022

A warm-hearted family drama which leaves a pleasant aftertaste.

| Apr 20, 2022

The sitcom star-turned-director maintains an admirably light tone that never turns sticky-sweet even after the long-awaited catharsis finally arrives.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 25, 2021

A charming mother-son tale filled with colourful characters, recognisable conversations and sometimes hilarious scenarios.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 10, 2021

A film about taking small steps forward that succeeds because its co-lead characters are so sympathetically drawn and beautifully performed. There may be no emotional earthquakes here, but every little tremor feels beautifully true.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 11, 2021

A wee too twee. But this medium-gray comedy is hard to resist entirely.

| Mar 5, 2021

Finds the right balance between deadpan quirkiness and lived-in naturalism.

| Mar 1, 2021

The film could do with more urgent pacing and structure, but it's meant to be minimal -- not much more than an acutely observed, achingly accurate slice of modern life.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 24, 2021

Plays like a Daniel Clowes comic set in England.

| Original Score: A- | Feb 23, 2021

There are no major epiphanies in Days of the Bagnold Summer. Its power comes from being so relatable.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 22, 2021

Days of the Bagnold Summer is a beautifully written and acted coming of age dramedy about a teen metalhead and his single mother's summer together.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 22, 2021

It is about small moments, tenderly observed, and it gives full attention and understanding to all of the characters, even the one whose behavior is most inexcusable.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 22, 2021

The central duo make a great mother and son. They bounce off of each other and they both feel authentic.

| Feb 20, 2021

It's really sweet and funny without overdoing it with the drama or the quirkiness.

| Feb 20, 2021

Despite lacking in visual urgency, the film is saved by the heartfelt relationship at its center.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 20, 2021

Simon Tindall's strikingly dramatic widescreen photography is extremely impressive, but it's the performances, and the truths inherent in the drama, that linger in the mind.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 20, 2021

Somehow, this is a comedy without punchlines, without popping panache, without charismatic characters. Yet it is profoundly funny.

| Feb 19, 2021

[It's] often too ironically close to being the kind of bore its central character Daniel's accidental summer in the English suburbs threatens to be.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 19, 2021