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Yardie

2018

Idris Elba

Aml Ameen, Stephen Graham, Akin Gazi, Mark Rhino Smith ...

5.3

46

Drama Adaptation of the 1992 novel. Set in '70s Kingston and '80s Hackney, "Yardie" centres on the life of a young Jamaican man named D, who has never fully recovered from the murder, committed during his childhood, of his older brother Jerry Dread. D grows up under the wing of a Kingston Don and music producer named King Fox. Fox dispatches him to London, where he reconnects with his childhood sweetheart, Yvonne, and his daughter who he's ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"Although Elba stretches the narrative to its limits, this is a nicely-shot, -cast and -told period story of black Britain (...) with a geniality that cuts through some of its bleaker moments."
		David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Elba shows a decent grasp of the fundaments of old-fashioned, novelistic storytelling (...) But it's a pedestrian effort (...) struggles to inject much sustained grit or dynamism into the narrative"
		Jordan Hoffman The Guardian	"[It] has a plodding narrative and lacks emotional resonance (...) This movie isn’t just patchy: it simply doesn’t work (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Nick Allen rogerebert.com	"'Yardie' has numerous gritty characters and some solid performances but no sense of filmmaking texture to complement most of it."
		Guy Lodge Variety	"'Yardie' has the right look, the right sound and the right moves to play with the bigger boys of its genre; like its young, scrappy but naive hero, however, there’s not quite enough power behind its posturing."
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"'Yardie' seldom amounts to anything more than a collection of vaguely related scenes, simultaneously both too muddled and too straightforward to have any resonance beyond the moment at hand."
		Jimi Famurewa Empire	"Elba has a clear knowledge and fondness for the multicultural London of his childhood (...) A fitfully entertaining 1980s gangster thriller (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Andrew Collins Radio Times	"[It] feels richly authentic (...) Played with charisma to spare by North London-born Aml Ameen (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"

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