In reality that turns out to mean a movie about not much happening while someone who looks sort of like Morrissey mopes and throws out occasional half-versions of Smiths lyrics...

| Mar 21, 2022

An unauthorised yet very affectionate biopic.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 28, 2019

Mancunian director Mark Gill, here making his debut, gets the vibe of the times just right, even if he is prone to over-using the good visual ideas he has, with Lowden supplying a witty, dry as dust turn as the ego on legs.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 23, 2018

It's not very deep, much less a worthy tribute, but it's certainly an interesting exercise. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7.7/10 | May 30, 2018

[England is mine] never finds its way. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 24, 2018

he movie bows down to Morrissey's subsequent persona, planting references to future Smiths' lyrics - the Moors Murders, the violent friction of a Manchester street fair - in a way that that makes inspiration soundly uninspiring.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 16, 2018

It is disarmingly modest in concept and self-mocking in tone, and so has not inflamed reviewers in quite the way Morrissey's own effort has. However, the fact it's unauthorised means that we don't get to hear his music.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 14, 2018

England is Mine, handsomely filmed for the wide screen, is an auspicious debut for Gill. Even those unfamiliar with Morrissey and his contribution to popular culture should be captivated.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 9, 2018

England is Mine works far better as an evolution of a star pre-fame than anything else. That's not necessarily a bad thing - just different from what audiences may expect.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 27, 2017

This film is strangely celibate, a tribute that stays out of the way of Morrissey's own charisma and self-mythologizing.

| Dec 19, 2017

Is It Really So Strange that This Charming Man is Unloveable?

| Nov 3, 2017

We're all going to be miserable after watching England Is Mine, the story of his (Morrissey's) early years in Manchester, which, infuriatingly, features barely a note of The Smiths or, indeed, much of the wonderfully evocative music of the period.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 5, 2017

Someone already versed in Morrissey could sit there and check off the influences, but someone who goes in knowing nothing about the man will see only the surface, the occasional photo or song snippet.

| Original Score: D | Sep 14, 2017

As it capably chronicles Morrissey's artistic process and the influential cultural backdrop, the film shortchanges everyone on the music. The result feels out of tune.

| Sep 8, 2017

A handsome little biopic that's sopping wet with the same clichs that its whiny hero so adamantly disavows...

| Original Score: C | Sep 5, 2017

You're left with a lovingly rendered portrait of a cipher, a protagonist who never lets you in and therefore one in whom you can't invest too much emotion.

| Sep 1, 2017

Sensitive and unironic, Jack Lowden shines in ENGLAND IS MINE with his depiction of the boy who would become Moz. While unable to access to the music so important to its subject's story, the film admirably finds the heart of our star.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 31, 2017

The film succeeds in portraying a faithful representation, interior and exterior, of working class life in '80s Manchester.

| Aug 28, 2017

England is Mine is watchable but not special and those with the strongest interest in the story may be unhappy about what's missing.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 26, 2017

Shows us Morrissey's early years, telling a coming-of-age story in a relatively generic way

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 25, 2017