It Always Rains on Sunday 1947

Critics score:
93 / 100

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New York Times: Offers some nicely authentic backgrounds, an expert performance by Googie Withers and a breathtaking finale. But the net effect is disappointing. Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: [Hamer] shows a fluency with noir's shadowy visual vocabulary, but what really links this to the genre is its sense of haunting regret and lost opportunity. Read more

Joel Brown, Boston Globe: This is a mostly forgotten gem. Read more

Michael Sragow, New Yorker: Hamer's artful and iconoclastic film mixes a day in the life of a working-class family with a startling prison-break melodrama. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: It's a cannily crafted and satisfying entertainment. Read more

Stephen Garrett, Time Out: A resolutely downbeat - remarkably so for Ealing Studios - account of a day in the life of Bethnal Green... Read more

Dave Calhoun, Time Out: A real gem. Read more

Scott Foundas, Village Voice: It Always Rains on Sunday is a masterpiece of dead ends and might-have-beens, highly inventive... and brilliantly acted... Read more