Everybody's Talking About Jamie / Reviews
Variety
It’s shallow, it’s simplistic and it all works out a little too easily, but the movie’s very existence remains a cause for celebration.
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Hollywood Reporter
There's abundant joy, spirited resilience and sweet humour on tap that should be especially infectious for young LGBTQ audiences, or anyone with experience of outsider stigmatisation.
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Los Angeles Times
Joy radiates from the screen with a glow usually only obtained through expensive bronzer...
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Empire Magazine
A solid adaptation, even if its camp exuberance is a bit muted on the screen.
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The Guardian
This gutsy musical comedy about a wannabe drag queen teenager adheres firmly to the Britfilm plucky outsiders template.
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The Times
For a film that's supposedly about the specifics of gay identity and gay rights, the struggles here are surprisingly generic and ultimately subsumed within the narrative structure of makeover staples such as Pretty in Pink or She's All That.
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The Irish Times
Everybody's Talking About Jamie, for all its razzle-dazzle, never loses sight of its northern working-class roots.
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The New York Times
A charmer, every bit as sunny, confident and ultimately compelling as Jamie himself.
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Independent
This adaptation of the hit stage musical replicates the effervescent joy of its predecessor, but struggles elsewhere.
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Time Out
Positively glowing, it just might be one of the sweetest gay films to come out of England since Beautiful Thing.
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