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Below, we've rounded up the 10 best films currently screening in Manchester cinemas together with the 13 best releases new to the streaming services this week (Updated 11 Apr 2025):
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1 ~ THE APARTMENT (4K Restoration)
~ 1961 Oscar Winner: Best Picture + Best Director (Billy Wilder) + Best Original Screenplay + Best Art-Set Direction + Best Film Editing.
★★★★★ Absolutely brilliant. ~ Empire.
Not to be missed on any account. ~ The Guardian.
★★★★★ A perfect, gritty rom-com from Billy Wilder; Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine are splendid as a damaged odd couple in a film that brilliantly balances light and dark. ~ The Times.
★★★★★ A film for anyone who's ever been in love or had a boss; forget the credit crunch and take out a lease on this Apartment right now. ~ Sky Cinema.
★★★★★ This classic from Wilder sees Jack Lemmon's put-upon, snuffling insurance clerk CC Baxter basically offer his apartment to his superiors so that they can indulge in extramarital trysts. From such potentially edgy material Wilder and co-writer IAL Diamond sculpt an unforgettable romance that won five Oscars, including best picture, direction and screenplay. ~ Radio Times.
★★★★★ Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine shine as two essentially good souls trapped in a tangle of office politics. ~ Daily Telegraph.
★★★★★ The effervescent comic charm of Jack Lemmon and quirky beauty of Shirley MacLaine give the film a palatable sweetness (while she would be given more glamorous treatment in later films, MacLaine was never more adorable than she was here), but they sugarcoat a very bitter pill in what is ultimately a story about moral accountability (and the lack thereof) in American business. ~ AllMovie.
★★★★★ The humanity of the film resides in the sweet interplay between Lemmon and MacLaine, and the development of their relationship from initial awkwardness to binding trust is beautifully acted out. ~ BBC.
★★★★★ No one does the pitchblack flipside of funny like Wilder, and 1960's The Apartment is the darkest he ever made. ~ Total Film.
★★★★★ A necessary holocaust movie made for a Western audience. At times over sentimental when the subject matter hardly needs any dressing up, but this is a beautifully crafted, hopeful movie. ~ Empire.
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2 ~ FLOW.
~ 2025 Oscar Winner: Best Animated Feature Film.
★★★★★ This Oscar-winning Latvian animation is utterly dreamy. Made on a budget of just £2.3 million, this story of a group of animals learning to survive in a postapocalyptic world delivers brilliant action sequences and storytelling. ~ The Times.
★★★★★ Mysterious and magical, this Oscar-winning survival adventure is an animation worthy of Studio Ghibli. ~ Time Out
★★★★★ A mesmerising, wondrous example of animation’s potential; a thoughtful allegory about ecocide and death; and an adorable ode to four-legged (and two-legged) friends. No ebbs here: Flow is the real deal. ~ Empire.
★★★★ ~ The Independent.
★★★★ ~ Little White Lies.
★★★★ ~ Sunday Times.
★★★★ ~ The Observer.
★★★★ ~ The Guardian
★★★★ ~ Telegraph.
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3 ~ ONE TO ONE: JOHN & YOKO.
★★★★ A new documentary catches the world's most famous dropouts at work and play and provides new revelations about The Beatles afterlife of John Lennon. It also does a very good job of rehabilitating the unfairly maligned Yoko Ono. ~ RTE.
★★★★ Kevin Macdonald’s immersive collage is a pop culture fever dream; a collection of staggering TV clips and amazing audio of Lennon and Ono’s life in 1970s NYC, this film is a mosaic of countercultural moments. ~ The Guardian.
★★★★★ Dissecting Lennon and Ono’s post-Beatles life, this fascinating look at the couple's NYC era is a total treat. ~ NME.
★★★★ A casually dazzling, offbeat portrait of Lennon and Ono. Kevin Macdonald’s frenzied documentary about the couple’s charity gigs plunges viewers into the cultural moment of New York in the 1970s. ~ The Telegrapgh.
★★★★ This is an effortlessly absorbing portrait of a megastar dancing to a charged political era. ~ Irish Independent.
★★★★ One to One goes further than fan service for Beatlemaniacs. It’s a document of a febrile time and a wake-up call for a fizzled revolution. ~ Time Out.
★★★★✭ There is always room for a post-Beatles doc if it’s this good and this original. ~ Irish Times.
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4 ~ BLACK BAG.
★★★★ Steven Soderbergh is back to his very best with a knowing and outlandishly sexy spy thriller. ~ Time Out.
★★★★★ Soderbergh’s new thriller about married spies is brilliant, sexy, and as tight as a drum; an immensely pleasurable new genre outing. ~ The Independent.
★★★★ More John le Carré than James Bond, this is a very entertaining thriller, which applies Soderbergh’s well-trodden heist mechanics to espionage with slickly rewarding results. ~ Empire.
★★★★ ~ Irish Independent.
★★★★ ~ The Scotsman.
★★★★ ~ The Telegraph.
★★★★ ~ Sunday Times.
★★★★ ~ Irish Times.
★★★★ ~ The i.
★★★★ ~ NME.
★★★★ ~ RTE.
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5 ~ ONE OF THEM DAYS.
★★★★ A welcome return to the easy-breezy (and very puerile) buddy comedy. ~ The Telegraph.
★★★★ SZA sizzles as a goofy dreamer in her movie debut. The R&B star clicks perfectly with Keke Palmer in Lawrence Lamont’s zippy LA buddy comedy. ~ Financial Times.
★★★★ One of Them Days is proof that Palmer is one of our best movie stars; the ‘Nope’ star sports a Julia Roberts grin and demonstrates a masterclass in comedy reaction shots. ~ The Independent.
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6 ~ BRIDGET JONES: MAD ABOUT THE BOY.
★★★★★ Now in her 50s, Renée Zellweger’s Bridget is a singleton once more – and what a joy it is to see her back on our screens. There's big laughs and even bigger emotions in her best film yet. ~ The Telegraph.
★★★★ Bridget faces new challenges in parenting and love, but it’s the familiar faces around her who deliver heart and humour in this unexpectedly poignant fourth outing. ~ The Observer.
★★★★★ This is the best film since 2001's original – a deeply moving and joyful look at grief, friendship and love that is a triumph in its own right. ~ The i.
★★★★ ~ Irish Independent.
★★★★ ~ The Independent.
★★★★ ~ Sunday Times.
★★★★ ~ Radio Times.
★★★★ ~ Irish Times.
★★★★ ~ The Times.
★★★★ ~ Time Out.
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7 ~ DOG MAN.
★★★✭ DreamWorks’ second feature-length Dav Pilkey adaptation is a lot of bark and solid bite; zippy, beautifully constructed family fun. ~ Little White Lies.
★★★★ An animation with wisdom and bite. ~ The Times.
★★★★ Dav Pilkey’s half-dog, half-cop Captain Underpants spin-off is now a superb animation with cross-generational appeal. ~ The Observer.
★★★★ Centering on a half-human half-canine cop, this colourful adaptation of the popular children’s books retains all the series’ wacky excesses. Like something a six-year-old would make up after bingeing on Maoams. ~ The Telegraph.
★★★★ ~ Irish Independent.
★★★★ ~ RTE.
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8 ~ MICKEY 17.
★★★★★ Bong Joon Ho's best English movie to date and arguably Robert Pattinson's best movie ever. ~ Total Film.
★★★★ Robert Pattinson is a hangdog delight in this enjoyably mad sci-fi confection which satirises the bleak religification of 21st-century corporate identity. ~ Telegraph.
★★★★ Gross and heartwarming in equal measure. ~ Little White Lies.
★★★★ A highly entertaining absurdist ride. ~ The i.
★★★★ ~ Evening Standard.
★★★★ ~ Time Out.
★★★★ ~ NME.
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ALSO SCREENING:
★★★✭ Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.
★★★✭ Ne Zha 2.
★★★✭ Last Swim.
★★★✭ War Paint: Women at War.
★★★✭ Restless.
★★★✭ The Return.
★★★✭ Drop.
★★★ Mr. Burton.
★★★ The End.
★★★ Four Mothers.
★★★ Sebastian.
★★★ Moana 2.
★★★ The Monkey.
★★★ Mufasa: The Lion King.
★★✭ The Amateur.
★★✭ Novocaine.
★★✭ Sonic The Hedgehog 3.
★★✭ The Woman in the Yard.
★★✭ The Alto Knights.
★★✭ Death of a Unicorn.
★★ Captain America: Brave New World.
★★ A Minecraft Movie.
★★ Snow White.
★★ Marching Powder.
★★ A Working Man.
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NEW TO STREAMING:
(Updated 11 Apr 2025):
ITV X ~ THE OLIVIER AWARDS
~ Award-winning stars Beverley Knight and Billy Porter host the 2025 edition of the glitzy ceremony, which celebrates the very best in British theatre, from the Royal Albert Hall on Sunday 6th April.
AMAZON PRIME & SKY CINEMA ~ THE GODFATHER.
~ 1973 Oscar Winner: Best Picture + Best Actor (Marlon Brando) + Best Adapted Screenplay.
★★★★★ The Mona Lisa of movies. ~ Financial Times.
★★★★★ This elegiac organised-crime saga from the young Francis Ford Coppola is one of the all-time high-water marks of American cinema, rich with subtle acting and blessed with stunning cinematography from Gordon Willis. ~ Radio Times.
★★★★★ Coppola’s first film in the series is still an epic, full of hypnotic acting, which reinvented mafia criminals as players in a dynastic psychodrama. ~ The Guardian.
★★★★★ Coppola's masterpiece reveals something new every time you watch it. ~ BBC.
★★★★★ ~ Total Film.
★★★★★ ~ Empire.
AMAZON PRIME & SKY CINEMA ~ THE GODFATHER PART II.
~ 1975 Oscar Winner: Best Picture + Best Supporting Actor (Robert De Niro) + Best Director (Francis Ford Coppola) + Best Adapted Screenplay + Best Set Decoration + Best Original Score (Nino Rota & Carmine Coppola).
★★★★★ Few movie sequels are as good as the films they follow and even fewer have about them the air of necessity. Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Part II is among the rare exceptions. ~ The Times.
★★★★★ In sheer physical terms, it displays even more spectacular panache than its predecessor. ~ Financial Times.
★★★★★ Breathtaking in scope, Part II also shows the early life of the Don, brilliantly portrayed by Robert De Niro, as he flees Sicily and sails for New York. These sequences have the grandeur of a silent movie by DW Griffith or Erich von Stroheim. ~ Radio Times.
★★★★★ The result is among the very greatest American films.~ The Irish Times.
★★★★★ It is even better than the first film, and has the greatest single final scene in Hollywood history, a real coup de cinma. ~ The Guardian.
★★★★★ ~ Little White Lies.
★★★★★ ~ Total Film.
★★★★★ ~ Time Out.
★★★★★ ~ Empire.
FREEVEE & AMAZON PRIME ~ FARGO
~ 1997 Oscar Winner: Best Actress (Frances McDormand) + Best Original Screenplay.
★★★★★ A murderously good film, darkness and comedy coexist succinctly in the Coen brothers’ 1996 classic. ~ Financial Times.
★★★★★ Still a work of gleaming brilliance, the Coens’ rereleased thriller about a pregnant police chief investigating a bungled kidnapping is a snowbound noir without cynicism; a macabre black comedy with purity at its core. ~ The Guardian.
★★★★★ Written and directed with the verve, painstaking nuance and outrageously black humour that have become the mainstay of a Coen movie. ~ Empire.
★★★★★ The beauty of the film is in the subtle detail of the dialogue and performances which continue to enchant on repeat viewings. Visually, it is magnificent. ~ BBC.
★★★★★ While sweet-natured mirth is combined with deliciously twisted malice, and gory horror merges with offbeat humour, the whole is set against an extraordinary winter wonderland backdrop. The result is a modern masterpiece. ~ Radio Times.
★★★★★ By the way, an in-joke of the film is the statement that it is a true story. In fact, it isn't anything of the sort, but it is a handsome fiction. ~ BBC.
★★★★★ ~ The Times.
★★★★★ ~ AllMovie.
CHANNEL 4 - PETITE MAMAN
~ 2022 BAFTA Nominee: Best Film Not in English Language.
★★★★★ Does French film-maker Céline Sciamma ever put a foot wrong? Now with Petite Maman, a heartbreakingly hopeful fairytale for all ages, she proves herself a maestro of the modern fable, conjuring a U-certificate treat that goes straight into my list of the greatest films ever made for children of all ages. The acclaimed Portrait of a Lady on Fire director has created another gem with this magical story of a young girl coming to terms with her grandmother’s death. ~ The Observer.
★★★★★ A story even more delicate and moving than Sciamma’s last effort, this takes an unusual and thoughtful look at girlhood, motherhood and friendship. It’s enchanting. ~ Empire.
★★★★★ What a superb movie. A girl meets her mother as a child in the woods in a moving jewel of a film about memory, friendship and kin. A spellbinding ghost story. ~ The Guardian.
★★★★★ Is the film a shivery gothic? Sci-fi? A fairytale? A little of each and entirely itself, a brief masterpiece of parents and childhood, past and future. ~ Financial Times.
★★★★★ Petite Maman is enchanting, with potency beyond its whimsical premise. Though it may read, on paper, as an unsettling fairy tale or sci-fi flight, the final product is grounded in pleasant naturalism. ~ Little White Lies.
★★★★★ Cinematographer Claire Mathon creates a lovely, autumnal colour palette that bolsters the film's emotional appeal. It's a languid affair despite the brevity of the tale, but the cumulative power of the many small moments, each straddling a line between personal and universal, is profoundly rewarding. ~ Radio Times.
★★★★★ Sciamma’s Petite Maman is a damn near perfect film, and like all perfect things, it has the benefit of simplicity. ~ Sunday Times.
★★★★ ~ The Irish Independent.
★★★★ ~ The Irish Times.
★★★★ ~ Time Out.
★★★★ ~ The i.
★★★★ ~ NME.
BBC iPLAYER ~ THE LADY VANISHES.
★★★★★ In 1938, master chef Alfred Hitchcock brought together the ingredients of mystery, comedy and suspense with sublime ease in this prewar classic. In fact, he invented the dish, and presented it topped off with that superbly elegant, enigmatic title. Rereleased now, it doesn't creak at all, whereas a movie like Jodie Foster's 2005 thriller Flightplan, which pinched from it wholesale, has deep vein thrombosis. ~ The Guardian.
★★★★★ Hitchcock’s penultimate British film before he left for Hollywood, The Lady Vanishes comes up as fresh and witty as ever. ~ Total Film.
★★★★★ A close second behind The 39 Steps as the best film of Alfred Hitchcock's British period, this sublime comedy thriller was co-scripted by Alma Reville (Mrs Hitchcock) and the dynamic duo of Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat. ~ The Radio Times.
★★★★ The formula of an innocent thrust into a nightmare would fascinate Hitch for decades to come, but here he packs the tale with strong characters and important details. ~ Empire.
★★★★ Like the rest of this craftily sophisticated thriller it's both a neat comment on Britain's dilemma in the build-up to the impending war with Germany (to appease or not to appease?) and also a cracking piece of entertainment. ~ BBC.
It's the greatest-ever comedy-thriller, the greatest film set on a train, a faultlessly cast mirror held up to the nation in the year of Munich. Above all, screenwriters Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat created the cricket-loving duo Charters and Caldicott that united Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne to become one of the finest of all double acts and a source of inspiration for Harold Pinter. ~ The Observer.
★★★★ ~ Time Out.
ITV X ~ GOLDFINGER
~ 1965 Oscar Winner: Best Effects.
★★★★★ The third film in the remarkably durable franchise, Goldfinger set the gold standard (naturally) for future James Bond adventures. ~ AllMovie.
★★★★★ The third big-screen outing for Ian Fleming's suave superspy ranks among the slickest of all James Bond movies. Endlessly entertaining and effortlessly performed, it's packed with classic moments. ~ Radio Times.
★★★★★ Perfection. You only have to tot up the iconic ingredients to remind yourself of why it is that Goldfinger truly embodies the smouldering escapist genius of the 007 movies. ~ Empire.
★★★★★ The coolest car, the greatest score, the quintessential exchange ("Do you expect me to talk?" "No, Mister Bond, I expect you to die!")… However you look at it, the third 007 film glitters in just about every department. ~ Total Film.
★★★★ ~ The Guardian.
★★★★ ~ BBC.
AMAZON PRIME ~ THELMA & LOUISE
~ 1992 Oscar Winner: Best Original Screenplay.
★★★★★ Not just a flawless road movie about female friends fleeing the law, this Ridley Scott classic is a salutary lesson in casting "failures". ~ The Times.
★★★★★ Still compelling and inspiring after all these years. ~ Empire.
★★★★★ A revisionist buddy movie/chase movie/road movie/gangster movie/crime drama, Thelma & Louise breathed new life into old genres while vividly reimagining them. ~ AllMovie.
★★★★★ Whatever your viewpoint, films have a duty to provoke as well as entertain, and it's impossible to watch the plight of Thelma and Louise without feeling indignation. ~ Radio Times.
AMAZON PRIME & SKY CINEMA ~ SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
~ 1999 Oscar Winner: Best Director (Steven Spielberg) + Best Cinematography + Best Sound + Best Effects + Best Film Editing.
★★★★★ Devastating and essential viewing, this is an uncompromising, powerful war movie that does not pull any punches. It pefectly balances the inhumanity of war and the humanity of its protagonists. ~ Empire.
★★★★★ With this movie, Steven Spielberg created one of his greatest films, an old-fashioned war picture to rule them all – gripping, utterly uncynical, with viscerally convincing and audacious battle sequences. ~ The Guardian.
The 24-minute sequence at the start of Spielberg’s Second World War drama is one of the greatest pieces of combat cinema yet made. ~ The Times.
★★★★★ To show the carnage of the D-Day Omaha Beach landing, Spielberg used a barrage of sound and the unpolished immediacy of a hand-held camera to thrust the viewer into the conflict for a 24-minute sequence of relentless, random violence more intense than in any previous Hollywood war movie. ~ AllMovie.
The fighting is ferocious, the losses terrible, and we see, and are only moderately shocked by, angry, exhausted GIs killing German soldiers who emerge from pillboxes with their hands up. ~ The Observer.
★★★★★ This is an important film that deconstructs war machines into separate, frightened men as it so likely was. ~ BBC.
★★★★★ A modern war classic. Steven Spielberg won the Oscar for Best Director for his powerful and brutal war film, which has an immaculate performance from Tom Hanks. ~ The Telegraph.
★★★★ ~ Radio Times.
★★★★ ~ Total Film.
FREEVEE & AMAZON PRIME ~ RAIN MAN
~ 1989 Oscar Winner: Best Picture + Best Actor (Dustin Hoffman) + Best Director (Barry Levinson) + Best Original Screenplay.
★★★★ Rain Man is the kind of congenial multiple Oscar-winner that it seems churlish to dislike, although its execution is by no means virtuoso. The film's greatest achievement is successfully framing the plot around a character incapable of emotional development. ~ BBC.
★★★★★ While everyone remembers this film about an autistic man as Dustin Hoffman's Oscar-winning triumph, the film equally belongs to co-star Tom Cruise. ~ Radio Times.
★★★★★ Hoffman and Cruise give signature performances in this thoughtful, and hugely enjoyable, classic. ~ Empire.
★★★★ ~ Total Film.
DISNEY+ ~ THE BANSHEES OF INISHIRIN
~ 2023 Oscar Nominee: Best Picture + Best Director (Martin McDonagh) + Best Actor (Colin Farrell) + Best Supporting Actor (Brendan Gleeson) + Best Supporting Actor (Barry Keoghan) + Best Supporting Actress (Kerry Condon) + Best Original Score (Carter Burwell) + Best Original Screenplay + Best Editing.
★★★★★ A rare instance of a film being as funny as it is tragic. ~ Little White Lies.
★★★★★ Superb, playful and bleakly witty on the surface, but hiding troughs of existential disillusionment and despair. ~ Irish Independent.
★★★★★ Three Billboards and In Bruges writer-director Martin McDonagh reunites Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell in this deliciously melancholy tale set in remotest 1920s Ireland. ~ The Observer.
★★★★★ Both leads are terrific in McDonagh's slippery, complex new comedy drama set in 1923, during the last throes of the Irish Civil War. ~ The Telegraph.
★★★★★ This is a visually stunning and consistently witty film, which is unafraid to ask serious questions about life. ~ The Times.
★★★★★ A witty, wicked parable set in a fictional Irish countryside. Is this Martin McDonagh’s best film? It’s certainly his most complete. ~ Irish Independent.
★★★★★ McDonagh is a modern-day Mozart and here he’s composed an awe-inspiring tale of obsession. ~ Evening Standard.
★★★★★ A film heart-wrenching in its simplicity, it is equal to In Bruges – if not better. ~ The Independent.
★★★★ ~ The Guardian.
★★★★ ~ Radio Times.
★★★★ ~ Irish Times.
★★★★ ~ Total Film.
★★★★ ~ Time Out.
★★★★ ~ Empire.
★★★★ ~ The i.
★★★★ ~ NME.
★★★★ ~ RTE.
★★★★ ~ BBC.
AMAZON PRIME ~ BEFORE MIDNIGHT
~ 2014 Oscar Nominee: Best Adapted Screenplay.
★★★★★ The third film in Richard Linklater's Before Sunset series finds Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke at their blistering, bickering best. ~ The Telegraph.
★★★★★ Need a reminder about how quick life goes by for us all? It's now 18 years (!) since director Richard Linklater and stars Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy introduced us to one-enchanted-night soul mates Jesse and Celine in the Vienna-set Before Sunrise, nine since they were reunited in Paris in Before Sunset. Now they too are worried about lost time in Before Midnight, a film powered not by the rush and possibilities of romantic love but the messiness and compromises of everyday life with someone else. ~ RTE.
Another masterstroke from Linklater. Trust him to buck the tradition. Whereas most sequels are dire, and "threequels" even worse, Before Midnight – the third film in a talky trilogy begun nearly 20 years ago – is as good as, if not better than, its predecessors. In this select group it joins Toy Story 3 and, er, that's it. ~ The Independent.
★★★★★ Before Midnight continues – and, possibly, completes – the story of the fiddly, emotionally unstable romance between the cutting, incisive, slightly pretentious Celine and the impulsive, passionate, distinctly pretentious Jesse. Played with irritating brilliance by Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke, they wandered around Vienna as young adults in 1995's Before Sunrise. ~ Irish Times.
★★★★★ As with its two predecessors – and with the films of French New Wave director Éric Rohmer, presiding deity of this kind of cinema – Midnight’s essentially a film about people talking. But when the talk’s this good, this absorbing and revealing and witty and true, who’s going to complain? ~ Total Film.
★★★★★ It can't be stressed how refreshing it is to be treated at the multiplex like a person with a brain. ~ Time Out.
★★★★★ Before Midnight is intimate and intelligent, and also undemanding in the best possible way, acted with charm and lack of ego, especially by Delpy: the story of people who have all the cares of middle age but somehow retain the idealism and curiosity of their youth. ~ The Guardian.
★★★★ ~ Little White Lies.
★★★★ ~ Radio Times.
★★★★ ~ Sky Cinema.
★★★★ ~ Empire.
CHANNEL 4 ~ EAST IS EAST
~ 2000 BAFTA Winner: Best British Film.
★★★★ A towering performance from Om Puri anchors this finely wrought adaptation of Ayub Khan Din's celebrated stage play, about a mixed race family wrestling with their cultural identity in 1971 Salford. ~ Empire.
★★★★ A cast-iron crowd-pleaser in the best traditions of the Great British comedy. Don't be put off by the Muslims in Manchester pitch - East Is East is much more. A bold, hilarious take on family life for anyone who's fallen through the generation gap. ~ Total Film.
★★★★ Funny, charming and refreshing, this is a great little film. ~ Radio Times.
