If This Is England does nothing else, it will guarantee writer/director Shane Meadows a place at the high table of the British auteur, easily equaling the best work of Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. Meadow’s previous work has much to recommend it, Room For Romeo Brass and Dead Man’s Shoes both showing that Meadows was capable of pithy realism, with a dark undertow of fractured morality that made for compelling if slightly flawed cinema. No flaws this time around, for this is a masterful film, unafraid to ask difficult questions, or indeed answer them.
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