An immensely satisfying comedy about childhood friendship… One of those rare British films which is at once culturally specific but directed with confidence and visual panache.
SCREEN DAILY
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Son of Rambow is pumped up with all the right kids’ ingredients: slapstick, fantasy, alienation and severe adult authority figures.
HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
As to be expected from Hammer and Tongs, bright and witty physical and visual touches spill off the screen
VARIETY
It’s an exceptionally fine piece, with a lot of terrific verbal and physical humour, substantial emotional clout that never leans on sentimentality and an unobtrusively sophisticated take on peer pressure and group dynamics across school, family and larger society.
TIME OUT
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Giddy, goofy and heartfelt.
CINEMATICAL
Impossible to resist
TOTAL FILM
One very charming, very brilliant film
IN STYLE