Veteran British director Ken Loach fields one of his most accessible and lightly-toned offerings to date with this comedy about a football fanatic trying to sort out his life.
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Empire
Empire
Play It Again, Eric... Ken Loach perfectly captures the feeling of football and the need for hope. Touching and hilarious — a blinder.
Mr. Loach’s touch is a bit lighter here. “Sweet Sixteen” is a coming-of-age story shot through the lens of social tragedy, while “The Wind That Shakes the Barley” is an epic of historical disaster. Looking for Eric is, by comparison, gentle and sweet and often very funny.
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MovielineStephanie Zacharek
MovielineStephanie Zacharek
What’s remarkable about Looking for Eric is the number of ways in which it ALMOST works.
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New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
The actors are up to the challenges of the many serious moments, but the sweetest ones are the most memorable. It's nice to see Loach's gentler side.
Looking for Eric is easily the most commercially accessible of the Loach films I've seen, one of the lightest and least somber. It's also wildly structureless and uneven.
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Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
The British director Ken Loach can be a master of working-class realism, but not in this cranky, rudderless shambles.