My Policeman

"My Policeman is surface-level queer representation lacking in visual imagination and begging for better performances."

"(Styles is) drowning in the deep end and it sinks the movie around him."

"The movie is anchored, elevated, and very often knocked completely out of the park by Dawson..."

"Despite Ben Davis’ graceful lensing and Steven Price’s emphatically weepy score, My Policeman is so reserved as to feel mannered..."

"An earnest, heavy-handed adaptation of Bethan Roberts’s tragic love story, for which the word “plodding” seems all too appropriate."

"The tailoring and pedigree are there, but they coalesce into something inert and frustrating."

"The contemporary framing device does little but slow down the flow of livelier — and sometimes downright hot-blooded — flashbacks..."

"There’s an understatement and simple clarity to (Styles') line delivery and body language that works well in the context of a man driven by primal desires."

"The lack of depth in (Styles') performance and of the film itself ensures it won’t leave nearly the impression it set out to."

"My Policeman, as emotionally earnest and elegantly made as it is, mostly feels like a movie we've seen many times before..."