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Lee is slammed by merciless critics for its 'clunky' narrative as they claim Kate Winslet is 'wasted' on the war biopic - but others argue it is one of her BEST performances


A year after the movie premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, it has finally arrived for UK audiences, premiering in London's Leicester Square on Tuesday.

'Even the structure, with flashbacks interspersed with Miller telling the story to Josh O'Connor's inquisitive interviewer in the 70s, feels expected, and fails to pay off with a strange and unnecessary double twist at the end' - The Guardian critic Benjamin Lee 'Lee was clunky in parts when it comes to the narrative and plot but it's the characters that really drive home the remarkable emotion and power of this story and I had to wipe away some (read: many) tears as I left the cinema' - Stylist critic Shahed Ezaydi 'What Winslet, also a producer, brings to the screen (a believably complicated cocktail of defiance, fear and despair) feels too honest and emotionally raw for this mannered cinematic portrait of a singular life' - Variety critic Carlos Aguilar

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