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We Are the Best! (15)

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Three girls in 1980s Stockholm decide to form a punk band -- despite not having any instruments and being told by everyone that punk is dead.


The critical consensus

A very welcome return from Moodysson. The music is Wyld Stallions-grade, but the charm and spirit of the three girls will have you moshing in your seat.

****(*)Damon Wise, Empire Online, 14/04/2014

This is a refreshingly bullshit-free look at life as a 13-year-old misfit, with all the volcanic and silly passions that emerge. And yes, it sails through the Bechdel test.

****(*)Andrew Lowry, Total Film, 14/04/2014

A joyful bubble you’ll want to re-enter.

****(*)Sophie Monks Kaufman, Little White Lies, 17/04/2014

It’s a delight from start to finish.

****(*)James Mottram, The List, 18/04/2014

It's an irrepressible joy from start to finish. Think School of Rock, without adult supervision.

*****Laurnece Phelan, The Independent, 19/04/2014

What makes it so special is its mix of barbed humour, tenderness and its Adrian Mole-like insights into what teenage years are really like.

****(*)Geoffrey MacNab, 17/04/2014

There is a Bugsy Malone feel to We Are the Best!, a spectacle of children playing at being adults, and doing it inevitably badly. But not as badly as the actual grownups.

****(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 17/04/2014

We Are the Best! is brisk, authentically snotty stuff, with nice barbs at the expense of self-indulgent ex-hippy parents, lumbering heavy metallists and pompous youth workers.

****(*)Jonathan Romney, The Observer, 20/04/2014


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Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

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