Stevecorp
Don't listen to the negative reviews
BelSports
This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
Rosie Searle
It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
hogana-43305
This film is a complex interweaving of two stories. The struggle for recognition for the woman scriptwriter is one. And the film within the film which reveals the everyday struggles of ordinary people under the conditions of war is the other.Though it is gentle and humorous and could clearly be dismissed by a particularly unthinking viewer, this film subtly points up the inequalities faced by women both in the historical period depicted (WW2) and by extension still now. The best standard bearer yet for the #metoo generation.
jnorton45
Great acting. Top drawer writing. First rate director. All the best movie craftsmanship.London during The Blitz after Dunkirk where the women and a few available men are left to tell a story of resistance, heroism, determination and hope. "Their Finest" gives you the feel of how London was in late 1941 and '42 through the individual lives of people thrown into jobs that desperately needed doing. The people are displaced Jews from Europe, an insecure girl from Wales, aging actors, hack writers, undraftable men, all fish out of water figuring out what needed to be done then doing it. Death, love, laughter, betrayal, luck, embarrassment, stupidity, genius all in a fast paced story of World War II.Three things to note. One, Some of the dialogue is tricky to follow because it is in a variety of English accents. You can't really tune your ear to one group of accents. Two, what passes for sexual tension in this movie is very understated by US standards. What they think of as electricity and chemistry between characters is low wattage and barely combustible. They are very charming however. Three, the humor can be understated as well. You need to keep an eye on the actors faces at times to see the humor. Again charming, but more subtle than US audiences are used to.
robbotnik2000
Imagine your country fresh into the active part of a war you're not winning. You need a job and wind up on the screen writing team of a group of actors and producers who are putting together a patriotic war film of the recent fiasco in France culminating in the disorganized rescue of hundreds of thousands of soldiers from the beaches at Dunkirk. As you are doing all this, bombers are flying over your head and you keep losing bits of the set and various co-workers.This is the tale told in "Their Finest" a well-done film of the type that the British still manage to pull off, going into their past and providing believable representation of a different time.The simple to describe task of turning out a creditable patriotic war film is complicated by the various parties who review the work and not only critique the film, but have the power to make major changes what appears to be any time. The characters are continually at work making allowances for a script that does not follow reality because the reality was much more mundane than drama calls for, or when actors renege or forced upon cast members can't act, or a script-writer is called away.The cast is well chosen and capable and attractive. The movie set within a movie is cleverly written and depicted. This movie is entertaining, draws the viewer in, does not 'appear' to be full of surprises but was clearly a work of technical expertise that paid off.
SJFlann
All that film can do well is done here. It's suitable for family viewing w/ only a rare cuss word. The tale rolls along with life's humor (Bill Nighy is Oscar-worthy) and with life's pain. It's well paced, with soul-mate love and other facets of life too. Kudos for the 1938-ish Britian setting, which is shown in excellent detail. Film- loving "persons-on the-street", your time will be well-spent.
