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Ken Loach consegue contar a história das «pessoas comuns» e os seus problemas com tanta autenticidade e sinceridade? E é assim que maravilhosamente ele pode trabalhar com atores? Um belo drama civil em que as pessoas gostam genuinamente uma da outra, mesmo que estejam a passar talvez pela sua maior crise familiar. Na verdade, não consigo lembrar a última vez que vi compreensão e apoio entre duas pessoas tão palpavelmente representados num filme como aqui entre Hitchen e a quase não atriz Honeywood. A comunicação, os diálogos. [Cannes] (18/05/2019)

Another of Ken Loach’s angry social dramas, Sorry We Missed You reveals level by level why precarity of work is one of the worst symptoms of the current economic model. The uncompromising and deliberately frustrating conclusion evokes compassion and anger, the combination of which both arouses interest in those who are paying the highest price for maintaining neoliberalism and provokes action. Therefore, this is an important film and, together with the Irish drama Rosie, one of the best films that have been made on the topic of workers’ lives in recent years. 80% (05/12/2019)

Paradoxically, Loach’s perfectly escalating, realistic drama of a disintegrating family may come across as the director’s indictment of a billing system that, in a buck-passing manner, denies responsibility for employees and, at the same time, pushes them to work overtime, be available at all times and subject themselves to stress. But it can also serve as a powerful contraceptive showing, as a fundamental obstacle to the happiness of two adults,that they have kids for whom they sacrifice everything and who in turn grow up to be egocentric brats. (19/05/2019)

The ordeal of an aspiring courier, where the plot is driven by thugs, a cat o’ nine tails, and threats just to get to that yearned-for social thesis, whereas we know from Czech experience how easy it is to pull all those pesky problems into one when the courier is happily delivering parcels on the speed. (11/02/2020)