Such an approach starts to grate before the film skips toward its sickly-sentimental climax...admirable to see the director rip up his own rulebook so late in his career, but to do so mid-film is perhaps not the best way to do it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 7, 2024

Ken Loach blends his usual politically acute social realism with a tale of hope and humour in this gentle Highlands caper.

| Aug 2, 2023

The best movie so far this year.

| Original Score: A- | Sep 18, 2021

The Angels' Share takes Loach's trademark edge and softens it a wee bit .

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 2, 2020

THE ANGELS' SHARE is rather like a good single malt with a huge block of ice in it. Even if this perhaps ruins it for the more picky connoisseur, you can't deny it goes down easily. Slàinte.

| Feb 13, 2020

It's a feel-good comedy with a UK edge.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 19, 2019

The morality may be murky, the language somewhat shocking, but Loach's underdogs win us over nonetheless, and just might win over new whisky lovers, to boot.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 17, 2019

The Angels' Share really conjures the spirit of the Ealing Comedies with its playfulness of spirit and generosity toward its characters.

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

This is far-and-away one of the most lovingly-crafted pieces of British cinema released this year, all the more pleasurable when you acknowledge that it comes from one of our best and longest-serving directors.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 8, 2019

The Angels' Share certainly has elements of a crime caper -- but this rich film is actually so much more.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 19, 2018

Part social realism, part comedy caper, and so good-natured, warm and affectionate it's rather a joy, even though it doesn't exactly add up.

| Sep 1, 2018

A little too trite and hypothetical for some people to handle, but there's no denying the boundless charm, wit and cool air that envelops this suitably amiable tale.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 13, 2018

Probably the first Ken Loach film you could call 'jaunty.'

Full Review | Apr 28, 2015

Modest in scale, expansive in emotions, this movie is a rarity: a contemporary tragicomedy.

| Original Score: A- | Mar 3, 2014

The film is cocktail of comedy and heist with a large shot of social realism.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2014

Slipping back and forth between drama and comedy, The Angels' Share initially seems shaggy and unstructured, but that's part of its appeal.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2014

Mingling the peaty scent of Scottish street life with a distilled take on unemployed, at-risk youth, director Ken Loach serves up a surprisingly upbeat cocktail thanks to a subplot involving rare whisky.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2014

Despite its ultimate sense of optimism, the Glasgow-set dramedy nevertheless carries a sense of foreboding. And yet, that might not have been the intention.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2014

With this shaggy-dog tale of four petty Glaswegian criminals and their improbably successful scheme to steal the world's most valuable whiskey, Loach turns navet into a sort of moral philosophy.

| Nov 4, 2013

...a low key and rather marvelous, sweet-natured heist movie

| Original Score: 87/100 | Aug 17, 2013