The film is heartbreaking, enraging, and ultimately uplifting, thanks to Loach's economic direction and Rita Munro's focused screenplay. The magnitude of the insanity is sometimes hard to grasp.

| Original Score: A- | Apr 21, 2022

Oranges & Sunshine is a well-made film, but its importance surpasses its ability to entertain.

| Apr 16, 2022

A work of controlled, retrospective outrage, telling the bizarre true story of how tens of thousands of young British lives were irrevocably ruined.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 3, 2020

A social issue drama whose fangs have been removed, Oranges and Sunshine has little to offer in comparison to past or recent cinematic genre efforts.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 27, 2019

Despite the difficulties the team faced when filming on opposite sides of the world, Oranges and Sunshine beats with one heart and develops its story coherently.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 28, 2019

It takes one of the most obscene scandals in 20th-century British politics and all but kills it off with its self-righteous stance, plodding script, mournful violins and clunky construction.

| Aug 30, 2018

Oranges and Sunshine is a powerful exploration and its subjects should be proud.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 17, 2013

Jim Loach's feature debut presents the horrific injustice of forced child migration in a calm, measured manner.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 18, 2011

'Sunshine' a burning indictment of child abuse.

| Original Score: B plus | Nov 4, 2011

The sincerity of feeling is unmistakable. So's the flat-footedness of the writing.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 3, 2011

A chilling tale? Not when made into a maudlin, completely predictable, mainstream narrative movie by filmmaker Jim Loach.

| Nov 1, 2011

Earnest, heart-tugging, social problem drama.

| Oct 28, 2011

Yet another reality-based tale of a lone crusader who takes on past injustice, but a fairly good example of this overused genre.

| Original Score: B | Oct 28, 2011

Emily Watson, who always brings a special grace to the screen, gives a multilayered performance to the role of Margaret Humphreys, who not only puts her own family dynamic at risk but finds herself physically threatened.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 27, 2011

The story is a stunner, and the format, propelled by Watson's deepening investigation, gives the movie energy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 27, 2011

The result is a problem drama with more problem than drama.

| Oct 27, 2011

Emily Watson, a delicate English rose, has never seemed more sturdy than here.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 27, 2011

The script occasionally employs a clumsy voiceover, but later the same technique works wonderfully, pairing the most dramatic plot points with its most emotional monologues.

| Oct 25, 2011

...a bit plodding overall, its heroine more perseverant than passionate.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 25, 2011

A 'message movie' told in staid, blocky fashion, as if already edited down for a Hallmark-style 온라인카지노추천 presentation, and the lowest-common-denominator audience that medium occasionally implies.

| Original Score: C- | Oct 23, 2011