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PG13 (SINGAPORE)
2015
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Positive Reviews
145
Negative reviews
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Average Rating
3.6
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2.5
Advertisement This flatness doesnt smooth out all of the films emotion.
Av Club
2.0
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Av Club
3.5
The movement that Maud enters with wide eyes and fiery ideals isnt interested in civil disobedience.
EW
2.5
Suffragette feels like a documentary in its visuals, but at the same time drowns in subjectivity.
Rogerebert
1.5
A picture whose politics prove rather more commendable than its artistry.
Variety
4.0
But if not, them, who Carey Mulligan is Maud, an east London laundry worker in 1912 whos always done as shes told.
Time Out
4.0
This is an important story and Suffragette tells it without stylistic fuss or frills in solidly down the line fashion.
The Guardian
4.0
It is a thoroughly valuable and absorbing film, with some terrifically managed suspense sequences that might conceivably have been admired by Gillo Po ..
The Guardian
3.0
Gavron has made a decent film with near horizons, a civil disobedience picture thats not as politely produced as youd think.
The Guardian
3.8
Which isnt to say that we dont form a relationship with these creatures.
3.8
Her preternaturally expressive face conveys volumes in just one baleful look.
2.5
Maud isnt well off, but she doesnt want to rock the boat, and shes complacent.
Collider
1.5
But the film doesnt dwell on it other than as a way of telegraphing its climax.
Vulture
4.5
Ben Whishaw is a fine actor, but hes saddled with a rather one dimensional role as Mauds uncomprehending husband.
The Hollywood Reporter
2.5
There is little surprise in the story structure and even less dimensionality to the characters.
3.4
Director Gavron does a respectable job in capturing the political and social atmosphere of the era, though her gauzy filter can be a little too on the ..
Paste Magazine
4.3
Suffragette successfully captures the hardship and bravery of the British womens suffrage movement, while also showcasing a wonderful performance from ..
IGN
4.0
Deep down, Maud knows that something is far amiss, and it isnt just confined to her voting status.
Telegraph
4.5
Its a very emotional presentation delivered with the kind of passion thats essential in having us believe in Mauds radical transformation.
3.8
Its a movie thats easier to respect than love, but it is something to respect.
San Francisco Chronicle
3.0
While good intentions and some wonderful performances manage to save Suffragette from being an outright bad movie, its biggest accomplishment is in it ..
The Young Folks
4.0
A wonderfully involving, moving Carey Mulligan and the spirited ensemble around her flesh out a handsomely crafted, timely look at why and how far peo ..
4.0
Abi Morgans script gives Maud a tremendous arc of passion fueled ups and devastating downs, and the actress executes the evolution with deeply felt em ..
Cinema Blend
4.0
While SUFFRAGETTE winds up being quite a sobering watch, its an important, worthwhile film in the same way that something like BEASTS OF NO NATION, 12 ..
JoBlo
3.8
Mulligans performance, coupled with a solid script by Abi Morgan, shows us just how much is at stake when a woman decides to wage war.
The Globe And Mail
3.8
If we now take a womans right to vote and to hold public office for granted, Suffragette reminds us that it wasnt that long ago when things were diffe ..
Philly
4.0
An engrossing film about the transformation of a working class mom into a radical feminist in 1912 England.
Spirituality And Practice
2.8
It doesnt seem, however, that the film much excited the imagination of Alexandre Desplat; the score is one of his most forgettable.
One Guys Opinion
1.5
Suffragette expends its energy selling us on what we already believe rather than examining the way these activists pressed the world into believing it ..
Village Voice
4.4
Will Maud buckle Mulligans ability to suggest flinty nerve underneath a willowy frame is of great service, here.
Rogers Movie Nation
3.2
The pic is watchable because its star Carey Mulligan gives an affecting performance.
Sover
3.1
Her work represents the best thing about a film thats at times too heavy on message and light on story.
ReelViews
3.2
Director Sarah Gavron (Brick Lane) captures intensity and dissects personal sacrifice with precision, keeping tight control of emotional content and a ..
Blu Ray
0.5
This period drama shows how awful it was to be a working class woman at that time... scenes dramatizing the political organizing and protests are less ..
Chicago Reader
2.5
This simply isnt the right narrative for the story Suffragette wants to tell.
Mark Reviews Movies
3.5
As Maud, Carey Mulligan delivers a fierce and heart breaking performance.
1.9
And it certainly doesnt hurt that the actors share a considerable amount of chemistry together.)
Reel Film Reviews
4.0
In director , votes for women are not about the purple and green silk sashes and magnificent hats of the upper classes... but rather about a working c ..
The Times
3.5
Carey Mulligan gives a wonderful performance in this film as a woman who becomes radicalized, and pays the price for it. The story is somewhat compell ..
Lariat
4.0
Under Sarah Gavrons firm direction, Edward Graus gritty cinematography and the sometimes murky accents (to American ears) add an aura of documentary r ..
News Review
4.0
Its a tale that remains woefully relevant, and that in the hands of these film makers is, finally, unforgettable.
Radio Times
3.5
Overall, the film is good, especially due to Mulligan who should likely receive some award nomination love come that time of year. (Full Content Revie ..
Screen It
3.8
In tandem with pharmacist Edith Ellyn (a brilliant, bracing Helena Bonham Carter), Maud finds the stirring of a revolutionary inside herself.
Rolling Stone
4.3
Suffering and sacrifice make up much of the film, but Suffragette wisely doesnt just rely on agonied hagiography to make its central characters sympat ..
The Wrap
4.5
Once again, Alexandre Desplat outdoes himself with one of the films best assets, its suspenseful score.
The Wrap
2.5
Mostly, though, Suffragette leads Maud down a well worn narrative path.
News Day
3.2
a fiercely intelligent performer, and that suits her here. She gives some human weight to Mauds big moments, especially when they veer dangerously clo ..
Cs Monitor
2.5
To its credit, its a well researched portrayal of the nascent womens vote movement.
New York Post
4.4
It will be a surprise if she doesnt see some kind of nomination in the coming months.
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
3.0
For the most part, Suffragette smartly keeps its focus on the beleaguered laundress.
Az Central
3.0
Its a graceful, serious minded period piece that never quite comes to life, although it tells its story clearly and is at pains to place a sympathetic ..
Smh
3.0
Suffragette makes a case for the historic importance of these renegade women, who launched the first wave of feminism, but you may wish the stirring n ..
Smh
3.0
The mix of melodrama and the curiously dispassionate approach doesnt amount to much.
Mountain X
3.8
Mulligan, in particular, delivers, bringing believability to a role thats quite a stretch, given the transformation her character has to go through fr ..
Star Tribune
4.5
The first feature film ever about the women who fought for their right to vote is glorious. It is angry and passionate and defiant. It is essential.
3.8
Suffragette has the power to shock even those familiar with the early days of the feminist movement it dramatizes.
Toronto Star
1.5
Gavron splits the difference between didactic history lesson and relatable storytelling without quite reaching either goal.
Salon
5.0
Indeed, whats striking about Suffragette is that it has so much modern resonance.
Flim List
4.5
Suffragette is a fantastic resource about a period of history that remains largely unspoken about.
Film Inquiry
1.5
While the film resonates on many levels, the composite nature of the characters makes the narrative feel somewhat contrived. This stops a good film fr ..
3.5
In this struggle filled saga, fiery Carey Mulligan is the source of the films strength.
Susang Ranger
3.8
As a period piece, Suffragette captures and preserves the pulse and passion of a past era, yet strengthens the vibrant urgency of a cause that continu ..
Observer
2.0
Sandra Bullocks spirited performance, as Jane Bodine, an American political consultant recruited to help an out of touch patrician run for President o ..
New Yorker
1.5
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Time
3.5
Yet theres a troubling lack of nuance in Suffragettes presentation.
The Film Stage
3.8
Starring Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Marie Duff, Ben Whishaw, Meryl Streep.
Boston Globe
3.0
It is such a shame that Sarah Gavrons well appointed film ends up in such bourgeois heritage territory.
The Irish Times
2.9
With superb performances from Mulligan and crew, Suffragette should be a heartfelt winner... instead...
Blogs Indie Wire
2.5
If only Carey Mulligan had been inspired to protest for the right to a better script for Suffragette, an overly schematic look at the struggle for wom ..
Blogs Indie Wire
3.0
The film makers wanted an icon to play an icon, apparently, and alas thats exactly how it feels.
Standard
38.0
But what it doesnt do is really zero in on how the women finally accomplished what they were striving for.
Tony Medley
2.5
As a pharmacist turned bombmaker, Helena Bonham Carter has a juicy role that shes barely allowed to bite into.
Detroit News
3.8
True believers Edith Ellyn (Helena Bonham Carter), Violet Miller (Anne Marie Duff), and Emily Davison (Natalie Press) role model for slow burning Maud ..
Groucho Reviews
2.8
Screenwriter Abi Morgan isnt able to make the fictional Maud more interesting than her historical counterparts.
Hit Fix
4.5
It is impressively staged, superbly acted, and efficiently authentic in its portrayal of not so ancient history. Carey Mulligan is terrific, which is ..
Forbes
3.5
However, his abiding philosophy when it comes to his wifes troubles is a shrugging thats just the way it is.
Herald Sun
1.5
Suffragette falls short on inclusivity and depicting flaws within the movement, of which there were many. The women represented here are brave and oft ..
Consequence Of Sound
3.8
And a marvelously felt, quaveringly emotional one by Carey Mulligan.
Nj
3.0
Accomplished performances hampered by a narrow frame, with little sense of scale or importance.
Hey U Guys
0.6
This is exploitation, isnt it Gavron is guilty of a couple of things here.
Film Freak Central
3.2
It doesnt quite trust its material and is always showing and telling and showing again.
Oregon Live
2.0
Yes, the actors are excellent, but this ostensibly rousing movie wont stir much of anything.
Now Toronto
4.5
The early Suffragettes were often imprisoned, and Gavron doesnt shy away from the brutality that surrounded them.
Film Ink
3.8
Her husband doesnt understand her desire to change and is embarrassed by her actions.
Three Movie Buffs
3.0
By not focusing on real life women, history doesnt get in the way of the message, or the emotions behind it.
Digital Spy
4.0
Sure, script is hokey at times, and the film features a shockingly small amount of Meryl Streep considering her billing, but the historical event at i ..
Nz Herald
4.4
The men a husband whos supportive, one who doesnt comprehend whats happening, a conflicted police inspector (Brendan Gleeson) are multidimensional and ..
Stl Today
4.5
REVIEW Suffragette Who: With Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter.
Cleve Land
2.5
Even Morgans feeble script is clouded with exposition and forgettable dialogue.
Screen Crush
3.0
Maud is a fiction, but a plausible one: a dutiful young wife and mother, already wearied by drudgery and an odious lech of a boss.
Ft
4.0
But of course, once the movement started, it didnt end there, ultimately extending right through society.
Contact Music
4.3
Sonny isnt appalled by his wifes politics, hes embarrassed and cowed by the way theyre now received at work.
Ar Kansas Online
1.5
It is a failed movie because it relies too much on the strength of the story it tells without providing it the necessary support.
4.5
Suffragette trundles along well enough, all noble and serious, but it doesnt get the blood up the way a protest movie probably should.
Vanity Fair
4.0
Each non violent scene staged by Gavron is a charged mini drama, and Mulligans evincing of Mauds evolution, from passive to indignant to enraged, thro ..
The Arts Desk
1.5
The movie does well to shine a light on the venerable struggle, but its beam is narrow, and often pallid.
Wsj
3.0
Sarah Gavrons film is, amazingly, the first ever to be made about the Suffragettes.
Scmp
3.8
Suffragette highlights how much the world has changed for the better over the past century. However, it also highlights there is still much room for i ..
The Film Pie
3.5
The movie isnt as dynamic as it could have been, but it gets to the core of what big, important social change means and how little glory there is in g ..
Cinemix Tape
3.0
You dont cast an actor with Pattinsons star power in a supporting role.
Straits Times
3.5
Yes, there may be a bit of a history lesson here but a fine cast led by Carey Mulligan brings this inspiring story of women fighting for their rights ..
Dead Line
4.0
Although not a hopeful film Suffragette is inspirational nonetheless, portraying the sacrifices made as women were pushed toward vandalism for want of ..
One Room With A View
3.5
With a peaky unmade up face and a natural air of sweet melancholy, Mulligan is an engaging everywoman.
Sbs
2.5
Suffragette offers up heartfelt speeches, noble intentions, interesting historical details and exquisite production designs (any Charles Dickens story ..
Daily Herald
4.0
The performances are incredible. The story is powerfully compelling and I left the cinema feeling like an utter s*** just for having an Adams apple.
The Shiz Nit
4.4
Abi Morgans (The Iron Lady) script is both exhaustively researched and tautly plotted, which gives the picture a spare, muscular aura that captures th ..
Mercury News
3.0
Compelling throughout, mostly due to the full bodied strength and sensitivity of Carey Mulligans extraordinary central performance.
The Skinny
2.5
Unfortunately, the bold, unapologetic characters it champions are tempered by bland, inoffensive filmmaking.
Under The Radar Mag
4.5
Fortunately votes for women is an injustice thats a great deal easier to identity with.
The Ooh Tray
3.5
It may not have the emotional impact it aims for, but it is still powerful in its own right, thanks largely in part to Carey Mulligan.
Bowling Green Daily News
1.5
For a movie about the breaking point of the British Suffragette movement that saw marches and demonstrations turn to vandalism and arson, Suffragette ..
Lainey Gossip
3.8
Its always compelling; you feel grateful, watching, that this story is being told at all.
Seattle Times
1.5
will resonate with audiences because while it is a historical drama, its modernity is felt in the predicament of its working class hero.
Film Journal International ..
3.8
With Suffragette, screenwriter Abi Morgan has managed to pen a movie about Britains working class women thats a far sight better than the dud she scri ..
Clclt
2.8
Shes a (some what) well off physician thats clever and has no fear of the law.
Fresh Fiction
3.0
This is a film so heavy on message that it forgets to tell the kind of rousing story it hopes to be.
3.0
At times, its a stirring story; at others, that note of retrospective smugness sneaks in.
Seven Day Svt
3.8
The suffragettes in Suffragette arent your grandmothers suffragettes.
National Post
3.0
Some of the most interesting aspects of the suffragette movement are glossed over without examination, and you get the feeling that, while the film is ..
The Australian
1.5
What Gavron and Morgan dont appreciate is that a film about insurrection told in outdated and conventional cinematic language does its subject no favo ..
New States Man
3.5
Effective at showing us how women across class lines worked together.
Movie Mom
1.5
Neither compellingly made or told, Suffragette has the burden of prestige without the substance to back it up.
Trespass Mag
3.0
Suffragette is easy to look at, populated by strong actors who move through a world furnished with lovely period detail, but it feels hollow at the ce ..
Toronto Sun
3.8
Suffragette has the distinction of bringing me full circle from Mary Poppins.
Qc Times
3.5
Sufragette is a complete triumph for its cast and their performances on camera.
3.5
Its not a new Hollywood approach, but it doesnt make it right. It just perpetuates the idea that white women represent all women. Period.
Reel Talk Online
3.8
Mauds character is a work of fiction, mixed in with historical figures, but her story could be that of many of the British women whose fight brought t ..
Tulsa World
3.8
brings a name and a face to this milieu; Maud in her hands becomes less of a figurehead representing generations of women and more of an individual wi ..
Am Ny
4.0
A compelling and propulsive no holds barred interpretation, Suffragette does not shy away from accentuating the extreme subversive tactics employed by ..
Film Ireland
4.4
She witnesses sexual assaults on girls in the factory, but doesnt raise her voice.
Cambridge Day
1.5
Suffragette suffers from an overload of extreme close ups and jittery hand held camera sequences.
Kaplan Vs Kaplan
4.0
The star power doesnt diminish the storys brutality or overstate the heroics of the films protagonistan impressive feat for the novice writer director ..
Impulse Gamer
3.8
Suffragette occasionally turns hard truths into platitudes. But the story is inspiring, buoyed by a fine cast, a pointed, important examination of the ..
Miami
4.5
Gavron, who is also a documentary filmmaker, knows how to reflect the disputes between women and men, and also between themselves.
4.5
The movie agrees with its characters, which is refreshing; and politics are debated only through the viewpoint of the womens experiences.
Critics Notebook
4.5
Still, to her credit, the film doesnt demonize the male characters.
Saportare Port
3.8
It doesnt come easy, and Maud must be stripped raw before she joins the crusade led by Emmaline Pankhurst, a real life Suffragist who pushed the women ..
MLive.com
4.5
This is a beautiful film, not just in its narrative but also in its astounding cinematography and production design.
Web Archive
4.4
Suffragette might not be everyones cup of tea. But it is a bracing elixir for anyone who thinks human rights are inalienable.
Buffalo News
1.5
This dull, uplifting classroom movie makes more the victim than inspiring example.
Seattle Weekly
4.5
Suffragette is a stirring history lesson, wrapped in a very compelling and intimate film that is riveting, educational and thought provoking.
Dwight Brown Ink
4.5
Suffragette is vividly made enough that even if it glosses the full breadth of the suffrage movement, it still introduces viewers to the history of wo ..
Junkee
3.8
If that doesnt gut you, if it doesnt make you stunned that less than 100 years ago, almost every industrialized nation still saw half of humanity as l ..
The Reader (Omaha, NE)
3.1
Mulligan turns in a strong performance, going from a woman who has quietly resigned herself to a certain life to a woman who is willing to speak out f ..
Fres Nobee
3.0
Cinematographer Eduard Grau make the laundry where Maud works look like an inner ring of Dantes hell.
Leepers Us
5.0
With outstanding performances from Mulligan and Gleeson, its an emotional and historically significant film that pulls you into the era.
Daily Journal
4.0
The characters constant suffering feels pessimistic and builds up the need for a satisfying, on screen success, which doesnt materialise as effectivel ..
Flick Feast
3.0
Suffragette is a worthwhile reminder of how far women have come and the price they had to pay to get here. Were left to imagine how much more there is ..
Ex Press
4.0
Her realization that being a woman doesnt have to mean subjugation and silence propels the narrative, and Mulligan delivers a powerhouse performance.
Japan Times
5.0
A poignant reminder of just how far women have come over the past century.
Baret News Wire
2.5
Leaving aside Gleesons constitutional inability to craft a performance thats not multi layered, its all about powerful emotional response to being on ..
City Weekly
3.8
The fancy period costumes and bleak, lived in settings may be strictly Britain in 1912, but the rage and passion feel strictly contemporary in the his ..
Play Boy
4.5
The film offers a history lesson mainly to those who never heard of the suffrage movement.
Haaretz
4.5
The weight of the entrenched injustices these characters stagger under is enough to keep you on the verge of tears throughout.
Buzz Feed
1.5
Suffragette paints an interesting portrait of an extremely important historical time, but its so in your face that the point is almost lost amidst the ..
The Daily Times (Tennessee ..
2.0
What good is a feminist film when it speaks to only to a narrow set of experiences This is not to say the film doesnt have its compelling moments.
Four Three Film
1.5
Sufragette is a failed movie because it puts too much trust in the strenght of the story its telling without giving it enough support.
3.1
The problem is that it is simply a politically correct film, and could be much more.
Cinencuentro
4.5
A maximum of four minutes on screen by Meryl Streep, give the story an even more special meaning.
Excelsior
4.5
A feminist chant thats necessary and relevant, a film about female empowerment and their roles in society, the work place and as human beings.
Excelsior
4.0
Theyre opinionated, self righteous, misogynistic and downright brutal.
Womens Voices For Change
2.5
Based on the fictional Mauds role in this saga and this sagas place in the bigger fight, its questionable why this is the story being told.
Trib
3.8
The British suffragettes of the early 20th century deserve a more honest, grounded depiction than that, and thats what director Sarah Gavron and write ..
3.0
However, the purpose of Mulligans working class Everywoman is to make the history accessible, and as a reminder that it wasnt just a middle class move ..
Dogandwolf
1.5
So why am I so lukewarm on Suffragette In short, it just doesnt add up.
Eugene Weekly
3.1
Both actresses bring a persuasive depth to their characters persuasive arguments.
La Movie Boeuf Wordpress
2.0
An OK movie, you can either watch it or not, its not anything special.
Chilango.com
4.5
The naturalistic performances are uniformly excellent, with Wiig a decided standout as what, at first, seems to be an amiable, meandering relationship ..
Windy City Media Group
5.0
One of its most appreciated accomplishments is its ability to paint the heroic events of a social movement that happened more than a hundred years ago ..
Franks Reel Reviews
4.5
Maud is a fictionalized portrayal of one such suffragette who endured years of unfair treatment, yet one real woman who deserves recognition and, unfo ..
Cinemacy
4.0
Maybe school isnt as bad as some other youth oriented movies make it appear, either, with talent shows, dances and even book reports looking like fun.
Blog Cleveland
4.0
This is a superbly acted and sharply written drama that manages to be powerfully emotional without resorting to manipulative sentimentality.
Wow 247
4.5
While the film extensively explores womens roles, it doesnt quite balance the equation in terms of men.
Sojo
3.5
An overly straightforward plot, ditching any complexity for an awkward simplicity, but thankfully the cast is top notch and the characters are compell ..
ABC Radio (Australia)
3.0
The movie is good, but not good enough to rise above its own prejudices.
Dear Cast and Crew
4.5
In a performance of considerable nuance, Mulligan gives the impression not of playing Maud but of living her.
Truth Dig
4.5
In Suffragette, which without would be a far, far less compelling movie, she doesnt merely entertain us with her skill. She brings to vibrant life an ..
Ap
1.5
An interesting story, sadly we have too many loose ends at the end.
Reforma
4.5
A well executed period drama that throws light on the issue of inequality, something thats still a problem today.
Cinema Movi L
4.5
The bravery and the radicalism was real. I wish, though, that the film itself was a little braver, a little more visceral.
The Monthly
1.5
What is the point of the silly, histrionic teatime drama Suffragette Certainly not to focus on the actual suffering of the suffragettes, who a little ..
The Sunday Times
4.5
A one hundred year buried history boldly and brilliantly exhumed and brought back to life in this defiant and devastating drama. With a convergence of ..
Wbai Radio Women Blog Spot ..
4.5
Mulligan transmits all the emotions of her character and the audience especially women achieve to connect with her.
Time Out México
4.5
Sometimes you will find you cant be quiet about something anymore.
Narrative Muse
1.5
A very conventional and safe film about a very singular and brave event in the postvictorian era.
4.0
With a plot and characters based significantly on historical events, Suffragette does succeed in highlighting the (or at least, a) systemic oppression ..
4.5
Suffragette is one of those films in which the parts are greater than the sum. Or, in this instance, the part, singular, as its Carey Mulligans centra ..
3.0
That Carey Mulligans Maud had to be swept into the Suffragette world at all points to a common annoyance in movies about activism.
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