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Susan Stark, Detroit News: Loach treats [the story] as a late-breaking sidebar to a narrative that essentially amounts to a tract on the glories of unskilled trade unionism. Read more
Gary Dowell, Dallas Morning News: A stirring and thought-provoking look at some uncomfortable truths that most Americans ignore. Read more
David Germain, Associated Press: If you want social commentary but absorbing entertainment, gritty realism but fictionalized whimsy, something for the head but something for the heart, too, Bread and Roses delivers. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: Makes a powerfully persuasive case. Read more
Steve Murray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: The strength of this vibrant, stirring film is that it doesn't get sidetracked by trying to encompass a love story, and furthermore dares to end on a note that is decidedly bittersweet. Read more
Louis B. Parks, Houston Chronicle: There are many intimate scenes that make the characters of Sam, Rosa and Maya very personal. Read more
Kevin Maynard, Mr. Showbiz: Entertainment that's good and good for you. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: You won't be able to look through cleaning people again as if they were invisible. On that count, it's a godsend. Read more
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James Berardinelli, ReelViews: We become so engrossed in the lives and relationships of the characters that the presentation of the message seems like a natural extension of the story, not something grafted heavy-handedly onto the plot. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Will this movie change anything, or this review make you want to see it? No, probably not. But when you come in tomorrow morning, someone will have emptied your wastebasket. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: The problem with Ken Loach's half-Spanish, half-English film isn't the lefty politics, it's that the Brit knows nothing about Los Angeles. Read more
Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: Loach and screenwriter Paul Laverty draw everything in simplistic, overstated terms. Read more
Jessica Winter, Village Voice: Preaches to the choir and overreaches its grasp, but it couldn't be timelier. Read more