"Suffragette" is a meaningful history lesson, but as a movie, it plays like a slog through history class.
Suffragette
Mothers. Daughters. Rebels.
2015 · 1h 46m · PG-13
Drama, History
Directed by
Sarah Gavron
Overview
Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
The weight of the entrenched injustices these characters stagger under is enough to keep you on the verge of tears throughout.
An intriguing premise dampened by thin characters and a formulaic story.
Mulligan, in particular, delivers, bringing believability to a role that's quite a stretch, given the transformation her character has to go through from workaday mum to first-wave feminist superhero.
Morgan's writing is occasionally pedestrian, but the sweep of the story, the performances and Gavron's vision make up for it.
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