Summerland

critic Reviews

, 78% Certified Fresh Tomatometer Score
  • In Summerland, the living is a little too easy to raise dramatic stakes -- but Gemma Arterton's performance adds some much-needed extra heat.
  • , Fresh Tomatometer Score
    John DoyleGlobe and Mail
    Made with great panache, this is a real gem of understated poignancy; about summers as lovely as they are fraught.
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    Paul ByrnesSydney Morning Herald
    Arterton towers in the role, not always in a good way. A stronger director might have reined her in, but Swale is not yet that experienced. When you add a large amount of treacle to the mix, the film becomes cloying and pushy.
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    David StrattonThe Australian
    The child actors - Bond and Dixie Egerickx who plays a schoolfriend - are the most convincing elements of this woefully unconvincing romantic drama.
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    Robbie CollinDaily Telegraph (UK)
    Summerland's lilting, soft-focus approach is part of its considerable appeal, but there is sharpness here too, where it counts.
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    Kimber MyersCrooked Marquee
    Despite its name (and July release date), Summerland is a film for cozy times, bundled up in a sweater with a honeyed mug of tea cupped in hands.
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    Clarisse LoughreyIndependent (UK)
    Summerland shows us how being robbed of self-expression - sexual or emotional - can feel like slow suffocation. But it's too afraid of uncertainty.
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    Dave GianniniInSession Film
    After the third act lands with a thud, it poisons that first hour to the point that the whole thing, at best, just feels like a waste.
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    M.N. MillerReady Steady Cut
    Summerland offers a refreshingly modern take on a genre that usually is as diverse as various colors of freshly fallen snow — though it ignores riskier choices that were there for the taking.
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    Brian EggertDeep Focus Review
    Summerland ignores most of the problems that probably would have emerged in Alice's life and instead opts for a film with copious amounts of warm-hearted escapism. It may be an illusion, but sometimes, that's just what an audience needs.
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    Victoria LuxfordDirty Movies
    Beneath the surface is something richer. It is in the subplots and character development that this story begins to soar.
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