Swallows and Amazons

"A very British nostalgia suffuses director Philippa Lowthorpe's amiable revisionist take on Arthur Ransome's beloved family fable."

"It makes for a charmingly old-fashioned family adventure – one that you can imagine several generations of a family gathering to watch on a rainy grey Sunday afternoon."

"A large part of the reason you buy into it so breezily is that the young leads clearly do too."

"A good-natured, if self-conscious period adaptation that grafts on a new grownup plotline of treachery and derring-do, probably closer to Enid Blyton’s Famous Five or John Buchan."

"For a film industry determined to open itself to a diversity of voices, this is very much a safe, back-to-basics play for British audiences in need of some comfort food."

"No amount of espionage exploits can supercharge the japes and scrapes with excitement that warrant its place on the big screen."