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The End We Start From

The 100 Most Anticipated Movies of 2023

2023

Mahalia Belo

Jodie Comer, Katherine Waterston, Benedict Cumberbatch, Mark Strong ...

5.4

100

Drama A woman who along with her newborn try to find their way home as environmental crisis that submerges London in flood waters and sees a young family torn apart in the chaos.

	Media	Author	Review
		Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"A magnificent lead performance elevates a simple, yet mostly effective, adaptation of Megan Hunter’s apocalyptic novel (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Guy Lodge Variety	"A gripping survival drama (...) a lean, effective adaptation of Megan Hunter's climate-change-themed bestseller"
		Wendy Ide Screendaily	"A post-apocalyptic drama that uses an environmental catastrophe as a lens through which to observe female kinship and motherhood"
		Gregory Ellwood The Playlist	"This may feel like familiar territory to another U.K.-set disaster film, 'Children of Men', or the recent mini-series 'Station Eleven', but Belo has crafted something singular here. And you won’t forget it"
		Damon Wise Deadline	"There are few disaster movies that get under your skin by being as strange, creative and imaginative as this"
		Tomris Laffly rogerebert.com	"The energy of 'The End We Start From' doesn’t always sustain itself, as the story runs out of risky ideas to put Comer in danger’s way. But her performance rises about all such minor obstacles (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Rafa Sales Ross IGN	"A story as muddy as the flooded grounds of Hyde Park in a post-apocalyptic drama that fails to nail the human connection at its core"
		Nate Richard Collider	"Above all else, 'The End We Start From' is the perfect acting showcase for Comer"
		Olly Richards Time Out	"Comer is superb (...) If the film ends up somewhere a little too neat, Comer makes the journey always worthwhile (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Jodie Comer shines in all too believable disaster drama (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Laura Denning Empire	"Prettily shot and with moments of emotional power thanks to Jodie Comer’s performance, 'The End We Start From' is involving and unpredictable, yet strangely cold when it should be searing (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"Jodie Comer shines in a survival drama where most of the action takes place inside her character’s head (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		Jourdain Searles The Hollywood Reporter	"The film takes a quiet, emotional approach to the end times, with director Mahalia Belo favoring a meditative visual style"
		Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"It is worth it to stick with 'The End We Start From' for Jodie (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		Nick Schager The Daily Beast	"The Emmy- and Tony-winning actress is typically transfixing in 'The End We Start From' at TIFF. But the dystopian movie she stars in is disappointingly scattered and disjointed"
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"[It] leaves most of its spectacle to the imagination, freeing Belo to train her camera on the whirlwind of emotions that storm across Comer’s face"
		Christopher Schobert The Film Stage	"A strong survival tale led by a remarkable Jodie Comer"

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