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CONSENSUS
All or Nothing's depiction of the working-class can be depressingly bleak, but the performances are wonderfully true to life.
CAST & CREW
Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville, Ruth Sheen
Directed by Mike Leigh
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SYNOPSIS
Following 1999's Oscar-nominated period piece TOPSY-TURVY, acclaimed filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to the familiar terrain of modern, working-class London with ALL OR NOTHING. more...
MPAA RATING
R, pervasive language and some sexuality
RUNTIME
2 hours, 8 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Oct 25, 2002
Video: Feb 18, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
MGM/UA
GENRE
Dramas, Drama, London, England, Teenage Girls
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official All or Nothing Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "Despite the depressing nature of the subject matter, the film is heartfelt and uplifting."
-- The Wolf, IOFILM.CO.UK
"The movie's greatest achievement (apart from the haunting turns from Spall and Manville) is that all this unrelenting bleakness actually goes somewhere."
-- Glenn Whipp, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
 "Lazy, miserable and smug. This is one of the biggest disappointments of the year."
-- Ian Waldron-Mantgani, UK CRITIC
"As well-acted and well-intentioned as All or Nothing is, however, the film comes perilously close to being too bleak, too pessimistic and too unflinching for its own good."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"Features such an uncanny ear for dialogue, characterization and situations that it seems almost like a documentary."
-- Derek Tse, JAM! MOVIES
"A long, dull procession of despair, set to cello music culled from a minimalist funeral."
-- Gary Thompson, PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS
"In comparison to his earlier films it seems a disappointingly thin slice of lower-class London life; despite the title...amounts to surprisingly little."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"It's a wonderful, sobering, heart-felt drama."
-- Dennis Schwartz, OZUS' WORLD MOVIE REVIEWS
"With Spall's marvelously sheepish performance setting the example, every second of every interaction in All or Nothing feels correct, honest and true."
-- Steve Schneider, ORLANDO WEEKLY
"Dreary tale of middle-class angst"
-- Robert Roten, LARAMIE MOVIE SCOPE
"Leigh's film is full of memorable performances from top to bottom."
-- Jon Popick, PLANET SICK-BOY
"A strangely stirring experience that finds warmth in the coldest environment and makes each crumb of emotional comfort feel like a 10-course banquet."
-- John Patterson, L.A. WEEKLY
"Mike Leigh populates his movie with a wonderful ensemble cast of characters that bring the routine day to day struggles of the working class to life"
-- John A. Nesbit, CULTUREDOSE.NET
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"All Or Nothing may seem depressing, but in fact uplifts us."
-- Urban Cinefile Critics, URBAN CINEFILE
"Reality is always Leigh's strong suit, and this movie brims with it."
-- Lawrence Toppman, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
"Though it's become almost redundant to say so, major kudos go to Leigh for actually casting people who look working-class."
-- Luke Y. Thompson, DALLAS OBSERVER
"Leigh is one of the rare directors who feels acting is the heart and soul of cinema. He allows his cast members to make creative contributions to the story and dialogue. This method almost never fails him, and it works superbly here."
-- David Sterritt, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
"All the performances are top notch and, once you get through the accents, All or Nothing becomes an emotional, though still positive, wrench of a sit."
-- Chuck Schwartz, CRANKY CRITIC®
"Leigh succeeds in delivering a dramatic slap in the face that's simultaneously painful and refreshing."
-- Jamie Russell, BBCI FILMS
"Fancy a real downer? [Leigh] lays it on so thick this time that it feels like a suicide race."
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
"[Leigh] has a true talent for drawing wrenching performances from his actors (improvised over many months) and for conveying the way tiny acts of kindness make ordinary life survivable."
-- Mary F. Pols, CONTRA COSTA TIMES
"The film feels uncomfortably real, its language and locations bearing the unmistakable stamp of authority."
-- Connie Ogle, MIAMI HERALD
"This is an elegantly balanced movie -- every member of the ensemble has something fascinating to do -- that doesn't reveal even a hint of artifice."
-- Adam Nayman, EYE WEEKLY
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FRESH 73%
Avg. Rating: 7.3/10 |
"The more you think about the movie, the more you will probably like it."
-- Philip Wuntch, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"A triumph, a film that hews out a world and carries us effortlessly from darkness to light."
-- Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"It's easy to succumb to the rhythms of this melancholic but humanistic rumination on the meaning of life."
-- Megan Turner, NEW YORK POST
"Leigh isn't breaking new ground, but he knows how a daily grind can kill love."
-- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
"A tough go, but Leigh's depth and rigor, and his skill at inspiring accomplished portrayals that are all the more impressive for their lack of showiness, offsets to a notable degree the film's often-mined and despairing milieu."
-- Kevin Thomas, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Leigh's daring here is that without once denying the hardscrabble lives of people on the economic fringes of Margaret Thatcher's ruinous legacy, he insists on the importance of those moments when people can connect and express their love for each other."
-- Charles Taylor, SALON.COM
"[Generosity] seems to resonate in Andrew Dickson's sweet, melancholy score, in Dick Pope's tactfully beautiful images and in every frame of this sad, resolute film."
-- A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES
" With one exception, every blighter in this particular South London housing project digs into dysfunction like it's a big, comforting jar of Marmite, to be slathered on crackers and served as a feast of bleakness."
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"For close to two hours the audience is forced to endure three terminally depressed, mostly inarticulate, hyper dysfunctional families for the price of one."
-- Andrew Sarris, NEW YORK OBSERVER
"Leigh makes these lives count. And he allows a gawky actor like Spall -- who could too easily become comic relief in any other film -- to reveal his impressively delicate range."
-- Steven Rosen, DENVER POST
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"...a somber film, almost completely unrelieved by any comedy beyond the wistful everyday ironies of the working poor."
-- Philip Martin, ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
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* Mouse over a tomato icon for a publication's original rating. Original rating not available for every publication.
* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "All or Nothing" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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