Suffragette: reviews

What the critics say average 7.4 from 10 outlets

• 8.5 The WrapInkoo Kang The first women?s movement of the 20th century finally gets the big-screen treatment it deserves. Read
• 8.0 The TelegraphRobbie Collin Never mind the respectable cast and period costumes - Sarah Gavron's fiery film about the fight for women's suffrage is far from genteel. Read
• 8.0 The Hollywood ReporterStephen Farber Sarah Gavron supplies a consistently gritty, lived-in atmosphere, meticulously detailed and deglamorized. Cinematography, production and costume design are all first-rate. Read
• 8.0 New York TimesA.O. Scott The final turns of the tale are suspenseful, but also a bit frantic. But it is also stirring and cleareyed ? the best kind of history lesson. Read
• 7.5 IndiewireEric Kohn 'Suffragette' ? a movie obviously primed for awards season chatter, and bound to remain in the spotlight for months to come ? reflects renewed attitudes about activism around the world. Read
• 7.5 The Washington PostAnn Hornaday Gavron has done her homework in bringing the dramatically stratified world of 'Suffragette' to life. From the outset, the film is suffused with bustling atmosphere and a heavy sense of dread. Read
• 7.5 Entertainment WeeklyChris Nashawaty It?s a shame that, despite some excellent performances, this urgent, well-intentioned film feels so conventional and stolid. Read
• 7.5 Rolling StonePeter Travers What makes Suffragette a relevant rabble-rouser, besides Mulligan's fierce, affecting performance, is the way it won't bow to the kind of Hollywood formula that tsk-tsks about how bad it was then ? only to wrap everything up with a comfy banner that says, "You've come a long way, baby." Read
• 6.0 VarietyJustin Chang But notwithstanding the righteous fury of its central characters, radical gestures and anarchic impulses are in short supply in ?Suffragette,? which has an awful lot of fascinating information to convey and only the most familiar tools with which to convey it. Read
• 5.0 The PlaylistChris Willman If only Carey Mulligan had been inspired to protest for the right to a better script for 'Suffragette'. Read