The Winslow Boy Reviews

The Winslow Boy Review
by Greg King
THE WINSLOW BOY (G). (Columbia Tristar) Director: David Mamet Stars: Nigel Hawthorne, Rebecca Pidgeon, Jeremy Northam, Gemma Jones, Guy Edwards, Matthew Pidgeon, Colin Stinton, Aden Gillett, Sarah Flind, Alan Polanski Running time: 110 minutes. In...more

The Winslow Boy Review
by James Sanford
The audience that embraced all those tony Merchant-Ivory productions of years past ("Howard's End," "The Remains of the Day," "A Room with a View") is likely to adore "The Winslow Boy," a drawing room drama which comes from a surprising source:...more

The Winslow Boy Review
by Dennis Schwartz
WINSLOW BOY, THE (director: David Mamet; cast: Nigel Hawthorne (Arthur Winslow), Jeremy Northam (Sir Robert Morton), Rebecca Pidgeon (Catherine Winslow), Gemma Jones (Grace Winslow), Guy Edwards (Ronnie Winslow), Sarah Flind (Violet), Matthew Pidgeon...more

The Winslow Boy Review
by Scott Renshaw
THE WINSLOW BOY (1999) (Sony Classics) Starring: Nigel Hawthorne, Jeremy Northam, Rebecca Pidgeon, Gemma Jones, Guy Edwards, Colin Stinton, Aden Gillett, Matthew Pidgeon. Screenplay: David Mamet, based on the play by Terence Rattigan. Producer: Sarah...more

The Winslow Boy Review
by Edwin Jahiel
THE WINSLOW BOY (UK,1999) *** 1/2 Directed and written by David Mamet, based on the play by Terence Rattigan. Photography, Benoit Delhomme. Editing, Barbara Tulliver. Production design, Gemma Jackson. Costume design, Consolata Boyle. Music, Alaric Jans....more

The Winslow Boy Review
by Jonathan Richards
THE WINSLOW BOY Directed by David Mamet Screenplay by Mamet from the play by Terence Rattigan With Nigel Hawthorne, Rebecca Pidgeon Grand Illusion G 110 min more

The Winslow Boy Review
by Jon Popick
Playwright-turned-filmmaker David Mamet (The Spanish Prisoner) has, in his previous pictures, created gritty, urban crime dramas full of seedy characters that bombard viewers with machine-gun-like expletives and unpredictable double-crosses. So why...more

The Winslow Boy Review
by Eugene Novikov
David Mamet has long been my favorite screenwriter and director. With his distinctive, more often than not ingenious dialogue, and his laid back style of direction nearly all of his movies are absolutely irresistible. Some of them tend to be thickly...more

The Winslow Boy Review
by Mark R Leeper
Capsule: David Mamet reworks the classic play by Terence Rattigan. A 12-year-old boy accused of stealing a five-shilling postal order maintains his innocence. Like the Dreyfus case in France, this...more

The Winslow Boy Review
by Christopher Null
THE WINSLOW BOY A film review by Christopher Null Copyright 1999 Christopher Null filmcritic.com more

The Winslow Boy Review
by Akiva Gottlieb
rated G Sony Pictures Classics starring Nigel Hawthorne, Jeremy Northam, Rebecca Pidgeon, Gemma Jones, Guy Edwards, Matthew Pidgeon, Colin Stinton based on the play by Terence Rattigan written and directed by David Mamet more
The Winslow Boy Review
by Kleszczewski, Nicholas
Hitchcock would never claim to be an actor's director. His emphasis was in letting the casting do the work, and was far more interested in the structure of the film, with each of the actors being used as pawns. more
The Winslow Boy Review
by Harvey S. Karten
Reviewed by Harvey Karten, Ph.D. Sony Pictures Classics Director: David Mamet Writer: David Mamet, play by Terrence Rattigan Cast: Nigel Hawthorne, Jeremy Northam, Rebecca Pidgeon, Gemma Jones more
The Winslow Boy Review
by Susan Granger
Susan Granger's review of "THE WINSLOW BOY" (Sony Pictures Classics Release) If you're looking for an intelligently crafted, superbly acted, immensely engrossing, adult drama, this is the film for you. Writer/director David Mamet ("Oleanna,"...more
The Winslow Boy Review
by Steve Rhodes
It was a question of a mere 5 shillings, but it was enough in the early 1900s to get a 13-year-old boy sacked from the military college he attended and enough to get the British nation outraged when his father kept trying to get his son's case heard in...more