Rotten
"Suffragette" is a meaningful history lesson, but as a movie, it plays like a slog through history class.
Adam Graham, Detroit News
Suffragette
Mothers. Daughters. Rebels.
2015 · 1h 46m · PG-13
Drama, History
Directed by
Sarah Gavron
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Suffragette
Overview
Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.
Director and cast
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73%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The weight of the entrenched injustices these characters stagger under is enough to keep you on the verge of tears throughout.
Alison Willmore, BuzzFeed News
Rotten
An intriguing premise dampened by thin characters and a formulaic story.
Rafer Guzman, Newsday
Fresh
Mulligan, in particular, delivers, bringing believability to a role that's quite a stretch, given the transformation her character has to go through from workaday mum to first-wave feminist superhero.
Kristin Tillotson, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Fresh
Morgan's writing is occasionally pedestrian, but the sweep of the story, the performances and Gavron's vision make up for it.
Sarah Bryan Miller, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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