A United Kingdom

...well made and well-intentioned.

With terrific warmth and idealism – and irresistible storytelling relish – director Amma Asante gives us a romantic true story from our dowdy postwar past.

Director Amma Asante, who is fresh off her critical success with Belle, has an enormous amount of material here. She does a first-rate job balancing the film’s romantic and political elements.

...a story that deserves to be told.

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...en velment og smukt fremstillet beretning om kampen for menneskerettigheder og demokrati i et fattigt/fattigt undertrykt land.

...dygtige Rosamund Pike og David Oyelowo [evner] at uddybe figurernes kemi, som filmen skrider frem...

…ett varmt drama om två människors omöjliga kärlek i en tid av rasism och segregation…