The film's success resides in its ability to balance the mundane with the revolutionary. I was moved by stolen moments between Hawkins and Lisa Hopkins (Pike).

| Jan 11, 2021

Although Made in Dagenham is far from perfect and has a particular fondness for those impromptu speeches which turn out to be stirringly spot-on, it is so warm-hearted and affectionate it wouldn't be right to take against it.

| Aug 30, 2018

A spirited look -- well written, beautifully acted, full of uplift -- at lovably cheeky heroines on the march for a little respect.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 7, 2011

Made in Dagenham does a good job of capturing the period. But too often it's simply put in service to the obvious, as heard in those uplifting choruses of "You Can Get It If You Really Want."

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 7, 2011

It's a nice breather indeed.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2011

The likable little British import "Made in Dagenham" delivers an overdue valentine to some unsung heroines of the people-power revolution.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 30, 2010

The real women of the Ford plant - seen briefly and tantalizing in footage played over the credits - surely could tell a more compelling story than this agreeable but overfamiliar effort; perhaps some documentarian, some day, will give them the chance.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 29, 2010

Everything about "Made in Dagenham" is predictable. But thanks to Hawkins and the other women involved, it's entertaining as well.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 24, 2010

To the extent that this mostly sunny excursion succeeds, it's due to the irrepressible Hawkins.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 23, 2010

[A] condescending exercise in you-go-girl uplift

| Dec 23, 2010

This was as wonderful time as I'd had in ages, and when it was over the only thing I really wanted to do was to ask the projectionist if they'd kindly be willing to run the thing again.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 22, 2010

This time out, with a few exceptions, the inspiration feels solid and earned, not saccharine and contrived.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 3, 2010

Feels as factory-assembled as one of the Ford cars glimpsed in the movie.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 25, 2010

Sally Hawkins, Miranda Richardson, Rosamund Pike, Bob Hoskins, and a talented group of mostly newcomers rarely hit a false note and characters one can believe in go a long way in a film such as this one.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 24, 2010

The unexpected thing about "Made in Dagenham" is how entertaining it is.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 24, 2010

One of those gang-of-gals movies full of bicycles, reggae songs, underwear shots and scenes of emotional growth.

Full Review | Nov 23, 2010

An art-house crowd-pleaser -- a piece of topical toffee that's entertaining, well cast, and predictable every step of the way.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 23, 2010

Hawkins does all right by her role as written, but I kept imagining what she might have done if she wasn't required to be so unremittingly valorous.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 22, 2010

So smoothly written and well acted that its humanity and good will leave you with a 1960s buzz of hope that social justice might be at hand; that feeling wears off quickly.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 19, 2010

Without ever losing sight of the serious issues involved, Cole manages to keep things relatively light-hearted.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 19, 2010