while it boasts no shortage of dramatic activity as it lays bare the challenges and consequences of civil disobedience, this collaboration between director Sarah Gavron and screenwriter Abi Morgan doesn't exactly uphold that mantra
Gavron's focus on Maud helps lift the film above slogans and marches, and makes it more personal. But when the fight becomes more of a war we lack the attachment to the movement's biggest losses
Gavron has made a decent film with near horizons, a civil disobedience picture that's not as politely produced as you'd think. But a classic? I abstain
an overly schematic look at the struggle for women's voting rights in 1910s Britain that almost gets by on the strength of a great slow burn of a lead performance
