In many ways Bruce Robinson's Withnail and I is what the great and good British film industry is all about. It is an eccentric, intimate and well-written independent production that would never have seen the light of day in Hollywood.

| Apr 4, 2025

There is a certain kind of movie that gets praised not so much because of its virtues as because, in some strange way, we suspect that no one would ever dare make its like again. Withnail and I is one of those enterprises.

| Apr 4, 2025

If the film belongs to anyone, it is Richard E. Grant, who takes the dissolute and mannered character of Withnail and creates a Wildean creature of tragi-comic proportions, the like of which has not been seen in a British film for some time.

| Apr 4, 2025

If all of it was as funny as the best of it, the film would be a remarkable achievement. Even as it is, it deserves an audience, and recognition for Richard E. Grant as an outstanding comic actor.

| Apr 4, 2025

Both leads, Richard Grant and Paul McGann, are new to film, and because they give such confident, controlled comic performances, it seems near-impossible that they're not already established stars.

| Apr 4, 2025

Withnail and I is not the whole story of the 60's. It's a small, wise, breezy footnote.

| Apr 4, 2025

Self-destruction has never been more articulate or refreshingly amusing.

| Apr 4, 2025

A '60s joy ride about to tailspin into the sobering '70s. Emerging from the crosscurrents are as amusing a raft of characters as you could wish to behold.

| Apr 4, 2025

[Bruce Robinson] writes juicy dialogue. His two leading actors, Grant and McGann, are just dandy as the dissipated duo. Griffiths is funniest of all as the pretentious, pink-cheeked Monty.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 4, 2025

Withnail and I is a witty comedy, but not an antic one. In fact, it might take you a while to decide that it's a comedy at all. But it's slyly rewarding, worth staying with.

| Apr 4, 2025

Beneath its appealingly odd trappings, however, Withnail and I proves to be hollow and paranoid.

| Apr 4, 2025

I am not sure that I like this unkempt evocation of druggy London town near the of the swinging '60s... But like many current movies I don't particularly like, Withnail and I manages to make me believe in it implicitly.

| Apr 4, 2025

Even the most mild mannered of these new [British] movies, Withnail and I, is a shock to our expectations.

| Apr 4, 2025

Withnail is a character once met, never to be forgot. In fact I've known several of him, but not in movies. Brilliantly slashed into life by Richard E. Grant, this Withnail in his long red and black scarf is a walking death's head of pride and spleen.

| Apr 4, 2025

The image of the pathetic, predatory homosexual seems outdated even for 1969; this, combined with the film's reluctance to examine too closely the relationship between Withnail and Marwood makes the movie seem evasive and self-protective.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 4, 2025

Robinson's characters are believable, his dialogue is consistently punchy and the humor level remains high throughout. Withnail and I is a stylish and truly funny swan song to the 1960s.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 4, 2025

Though this directorial debut of screenwriter Bruce Robinson reads more like a well-wrought short story than a feature film, his characters are finely drawn and their dialogue wickedly funny.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 4, 2025

Grant, who also has worked in Britain on 온라인카지노추천 and stage, brilliantly suggests his character's profound disappointment, without letting it become maudlin or distancing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 4, 2025

Everyone has known a Withnail. And, what's more, everyone is a Withnail.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 4, 2025

If it was as good as the sum of its parts, Withnail and I would be a first-class film. Indeed, there are so many things right with it that I feel guilty about not liking it as a whole.

| Apr 4, 2025