68
Metascore
28 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottQueen and Country doesn’t quite have the bittersweet intensity of its precursor. The terrible magic of the war is missing, and so is the heightened, wide-eyed perceptiveness of the child protagonist.
- 75The PlaylistOliver LytteltonThe PlaylistOliver LytteltonQueen & Country is hardly reinventing the wheel, but it's charming, evocative and (mostly) well-performed, and were Boorman to continue with his autobiographical cycle, we'd certainly welcome further installments.
- 70VarietyScott FoundasVarietyScott FoundasQueen and Country lacks the immediacy of “Hope and Glory,” in part because there’s no single animating event here to rival the Blitz... But it remains a pleasure to spend time in the presence of these characters, and a third volume — perhaps focused on Bill’s entrance into the British film industry — would hardly be unwelcome.
- 70The DissolveNoel MurrayThe DissolveNoel MurrayWhat Queen And Country has going for it that admirers of the original will appreciate—and that total novices can enjoy just as much—is how skillfully Boorman takes major historical events and filters them through small, personal moments.
- 60The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawQueen and Country is an entertaining and sympathetic guide to a lost world: a rite of passage that Britain was to find it could do without.
- 60Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonVillage VoiceMichael AtkinsonA pleasant old man's movie, in the end, but not one for which Boorman will be remembered.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinThe Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinRambling and unfocused but not without its moments.
- 38Slant MagazineClayton DillardSlant MagazineClayton DillardThe film lacks an ability to construct significant instances of character drama as symbolic of larger concerns pertaining to nationalist dilemmas.