This queer period drama has good intentions, but the glaring combination of rote material and poor acting is particularly damning.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 18, 2024

My Policeman stands on the precipice of being something more, something we haven't seen, but it never fully makes the jump.

| Jul 12, 2024

It is perhaps the tender and delicate approach to the main romance that makes this film worth seeing (or streaming). Forbidden love stories always have something that manages to push your heartstrings to the limit, and My Policeman is no different.

| Jul 10, 2024

The overall presentation may be uneven and it won’t be a film that many people will remember or revisit in a few years time. However, I found myself captivated by the tale and that is all I ask with a story like this.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 1, 2024

Michael Grandage’s gay romance is a heartbreaking delight, even though it won’t win Harry Styles an Oscar.

| Nov 2, 2023

Despite impeccable credentials, good looking leads, spot-on period details and heart-wrenching love stories, Michael Grandage’s adaptation of a celebrated novel is an inexplicable slog.

| Oct 4, 2023

My Policeman has the potential to tell an intriguing story about self-acceptance, the freedom of love, and overcoming odds in a time when more representation like this is needed. However, nearly all aspects of it fall flat.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 26, 2023

It's terribly melodramatic. If similar movies like Brokeback Mountain didn’t exist, this film might be more effective. We have examples of better stories with two gay male leads pushing and pulling themselves in an era that didn’t accept their love.

| Jul 25, 2023

My Policeman would like to paint itself as a sprawling love story that’s sensual, emotional, and nuanced, but it’s a slog. The three main characters are too wrapped up in their own melodrama to have a lasting impact on the audience.

| Jul 24, 2023

My Policeman is an emotional and visually stunning watch, yet it's average dialogue and surface level exploration stops it from reaching true greatness.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 24, 2023

My Policeman finds itself corseted by a screenplay that doesn't meet expectations. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 20, 2023

Dour and flavorless...

| May 30, 2023

There are some holes in the plot. It seems unlikely this drama would have continued for so many years without confrontations. The actors are all very good and very convincing, and that helps make up for the shortfall in the story.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 1, 2023

If nothing else, My Policeman effectively conveys how judgement, prejudice and cowardice is all contingent upon choices and actions. How those actions can change and enhance a life or ruin it for an eternity with an outcome that can not be reversed.

| Dec 28, 2022

The directing of this novel is very well done. Harry Styles & David Dawson have organic chemistry that is felt even in the older actors portraying them respectfully. In terms of the narrative and progress at times feels overlong, but still keeps you glued

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Dec 26, 2022

My Policeman is an objectively well-made film documenting a secret situation that must have been far more common in the 1950s and 1960s than modern-day viewers are capable of knowing

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 22, 2022

Riddled with a miscast leading man, ill-fitting clichés, and a predictable conclusion, the film is a stiff, passionless affair.

| Dec 7, 2022

The performances are all good, though Styles doesn’t quite have the chops to pull off a couple of Tom’s more demanding emotional scenes...

| Dec 5, 2022

A finely etched relationship drama set at a time when homosexuality was illegal and violence against them almost became a sport...while it's a good film, it’s not exactly uplifting. Be prepared to get misty-eyed, but don’t fault yourself if you do.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 22, 2022

It’s an extremely ponderous approach and, at first, it’s actually confusing...

| Nov 17, 2022