I, Daniel Blake

Reviews:
"Johns and Squires have lovely chemistry together...and the indignities that proud citizens experience when they need public assistance have rarely been depicted with such harrowing frankness." - 12/19/2016 A.V. Club

"[The film] features some stirring performances and a strong sense of place in its depiction of working-class Newcastle." - 12/23/2016 RogerEbert.com

"[A] powerful return to form for Mr. Loach, the much-honored left-wing British filmmaker who is now 80 and is still in full command as a filmmaker and a social critic." - 12/22/2016 New York Times

"Johns, known primarily as a comedian in Britain, beautifully captures a man of good humor but growing impatience, his every exasperated reaction to red tape -- under Loach’s coolly observant direction..." - 12/22/2016 Los Angeles Times

"I, DANIEL BLAKE is one of Loach’s finest films, a drama of tender devastation that tells its story with an unblinking neorealist simplicity that goes right back to the plainspoken purity of Vittorio De Sica." - 05/12/2016 Variety

3.5 stars out of 4 -- "Loach is nothing if not a humanist, one who sees what should unite us all in times of duress, and this is arguably one of his best and most accessible movies to date." - 01/05/2017 Rolling Stone

"I, DANIEL BLAKE may serve as a welcome reminder of narrative cinema’s ability to rile us up and engender sympathy for society’s downtrodden." - 11/01/2016 Film Comment

"I, DANIEL BLAKE is a typical slice of socio-political realism from the legendary director, but it’s tinged with an infuriating, Kafkaesque sense of humor..." - 01/22/2017 The Atlantic

"[An] affecting portrait of an unemployed craftsman desperately trying to return to a life of dignity and productivity....Its sharply observed drama and radiant central performances make it well worth the sit." - 06/01/2017 Washington Post