Rotten
Golden-hued, feel-good treacle, the sort that the U.K. has tried to export ever since Billy Elliot.
Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times
Overview
In the heat of the summer of 1976, drama teacher Vivienne fights sweltering heat and general teenage apathy to put on an end-of-term version of Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Director and cast
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54%
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Rotten
The golden-hued cinematography (a filming cliche that really needs to be retired) and the sometimes slack direction by Marc Evans are minuses ...
Lou Lumenick, New York Post
Fresh
At various moments this endearing but sudsy movie, which spills all over the place, evokes "High School Musical," "Glee" and "Billy Elliot."
Stephen Holden, New York Times
Rotten
Hunky Dory flits along blithely from number to transporting musical number until it ends - with a sigh - and dodges any authentic engagement with its own ideas.
Joel Arnold, NPR
Fresh
Enthusiasm carries the day in this paint-by-numbers period tale, which is just charming enough to coast on its own cliches.
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News
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