Substance and style work in perfect harmony in this Powell & Pressburger masterpiece.

| Feb 28, 2025

... one of the most beloved British films of all time.

| Oct 21, 2024

... occasionally demonstrates the charm, flair, and flourish of other Archers' pictures...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 15, 2024

A more precious, overly serious young actress would have given a stiff, overly mannered performance in the role Kerr was handed but she works wonders with it.

| Feb 10, 2023

This portrait is deeply moving and executed with great cinematic flair...

| Dec 5, 2022

Only together could Powell and Pressburger create such a balanced and visionary body of work, its bounds and sophistication matched only by its boldness and passion.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 20, 2022

There is nothing brilliant about the picture, but it is perceptive, witty, and sweet-tempered, and it shows a continuous feeling for the charm and illuminating power of mannerism, speech, and gesture used semi-ritually, rather than purely realistically.

| Jun 24, 2021

Colonel Blimp manages to be both leisurely and exciting. It is definitely worth seeing.

| Jan 14, 2021

[A] profound and moving meditation on friendship and honour, patriotism and growing old.

| Dec 16, 2020

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp remains a monumental feature, ripe with still relevant themes and classic Technicolor beauty.

| Nov 16, 2020

It's a heartbreaking study of aging and obsolescence in the face of modernity, but also a paean to a generation of heroes.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 6, 2019

says something wonderful about who we are when we're at our best.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 26, 2016

Each individual part is carefully built up and the film as a whole (if a trifle unsatisfying in retrospect) repays the evident care which has been lavished upon it.

| Feb 16, 2016

Maybe the most essentially, urgently British of the 21 films Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger made together.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Jun 20, 2015

The rarest of cinematic treasures: a historical epic that is also intensely personal and emotionally earnest.

| Original Score: 9/10 | May 22, 2013

The greatest of all British films, the greatest film about Britishness

| Feb 18, 2013

Arguably the finest British film made during the second world war...

| May 20, 2012

Blimp is a film that gives us musical mischief, marvellous moustaches, poignancy and peculiarity in droves.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 18, 2012

This glorious film is about the greatest mystery of all: how old people were once young, and how young people are in the process of becoming old.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 17, 2012

Staggering and heartbreaking. Still.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 17, 2012