67
For a good long while, anyway, it does offer the kind of involving quotidian texture that Loach excels at when he’s not simply steering the steamroller over his characters to make a point about society’s ills.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
91
The Playlist by Bradley Warren
As typical as it may sound from the outside, tender and devastating in turn, “Sorry We Missed You” is essential viewing.
100
The Hollywood Reporter by David Rooney
A drama of such searing human empathy and quotidian heartbreak that its powerful climactic scenes actually impede your breathing.
75
Sorry to Miss You doesn’t break new ground for the filmmaker, but it radiates a timeliness that suggests an old-fashioned Ken Loach lament matters more than ever.
80
Laverty and Loach have created another hard-hitting, powerful film, spiked with humour and moments of rare but profound humanity.
60
Los Angeles Times by Justin Chang
As a stripped-down, minutely detailed portrait of the daily grind as back-breaking Sisyphean ordeal, “Sorry We Missed You” is engrossing and bluntly persuasive. I was less convinced by the family dynamics.
90
An angry skewering of today’s gig economy as well as a moving drama about a loving family on the verge of implosion which is easily is one of Loach’s very best films.
90
Another intimate and powerful drama about what’s going on in people’s everyday lives. ... Loach stages all of this with supreme confidence and flow.
100
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
It’s fierce, open and angry, unironised and unadorned, about a vital contemporary issue whose implications you somehow don’t hear on the news.
75
It is not a subtle film, and its bluntness is occasionally potent but just as often wearying.