It's a film filled with beautiful sweaters, mud wrestling, and sad boys, which means it's deeply romantic

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 6, 2025

God’s Own Country is beautifully told, not self-conscious.

| May 9, 2023

Wonderfully acted and brimming with steamy, sexual tension, God’s Own Country deserves its spot on the list of seminal queer cinema.

| Sep 28, 2022

As LGBT+ films go, this is the cream of the crop. And as British films go, this is undoubtedly one of the strongest of the year.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 2, 2021

Lee steers away from obvious story beats we think are coming and never allows himself an easy emotion. In his world, living is hard and loving is harder, but, says this wonderful film, the challenge is worth facing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 23, 2021

God's Own Country [is] the celluloid gay love story of the year.

| Oct 19, 2020

One of the finest films about love in many years, hot on the heels of Oscar-winning Moonlight, God's Own Country feels like the film we need right now in the midst of Australia's marriage equality debate.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 19, 2020

This movie is a beautifully poignant slow burn with a stellar cast. I highly recommend you watch God's Own Country.

| May 19, 2020

Writer-director Francis Lee creates a more credible rural milieu, anchored in the grubby details of raising livestock and the furious emotional repression of his male characters.

| Apr 17, 2020

[A] compelling, if subdued drama.

| Mar 24, 2020

God's Own Country is a film where every frame is full of light and texture specifically designed to convey the subtle nuances of this relationship, and to give it a specificity anchored in this place and time.

| Feb 6, 2020

If you like your romantic dramas with a side of social critique, look no further.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 5, 2020

This is a love story, a truly great one, showing the transformative and healing powers of loving and being loved. It's moving, beautiful and will be one of the best films of 2017.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 27, 2020

Lee also avoids gross sentiment, aiming instead for a message extolling the possibility of hope for a fulfilling, gay relationship set in the kinds of rural climes where ignorance, repression, and eventual tragedy usually reign supreme.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 4, 2019

The realism of writer-director Francis Lee's love-struck first feature is as raw as the rural business of birth and death.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 7, 2019

Lee has made an astonishing debut behind the camera. It is a love story of rare power and depth, whose effects are felt not through words the characters say but through the words they don't.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 4, 2019

As a study in finding one's way, Lee and his cast deliver a film that manages to be both rough around the edges and authentically tender.

| May 28, 2019

[It] is a film that exceeds the expectations of just a gay romance in a windswept, ruggedly romantic location, by offering fine performances and a touching tale of self-discovery.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 26, 2019

Francis Lee's debut is a lean micro-narrative that largely succeeds in its small scale, though the lead characters are frustratingly undeveloped.

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

Themes of pride, shame and reluctant humility underpin the love story at hand to create a rich commentary on relationships.

| Feb 28, 2019