My Policeman at TIFF 2022 Reviews

How ridiculous. Just no.

My middle sister has a similar pocketbook as the one he's toting

Harry Styles and Oscar will never meet. Ever.

They all look so...

Harry looking all movie-star-like at TIFF.

He’s not that good looking I’m not getting the hype.

r6, oh the quote replies or whatever they're called to that clip are pure fan hysteria, but very sweet

Stunning and brave, especially the twee "I'm queer-adjacent!!!" pocketbook and the eminently punchable, pink-loaf-of-ham face.

The formal reviews are coming in now.

From The Wrap:

[quote] For relative acting newcomer Styles, the guileless and appealing young Tom is an ideal role, his sweet and vacant beauty offering a blank slate onto which Marion and Patrick can project whatever they want.

[quote] It’s just the troubling muddle of the script and direction that leaves one wanting much, much more from “My Policeman.”

Movie which have two actors playing the same character NEVER EVER work.

It's only convincing if the two actors are blood-related. (for example Vanessa Redgrave and her daughter).

THR review:

So much talk about Styles’ pulchritude… I don’t see it. And I pity any actor who does love scenes with his funky, unwashed ass.

[quote] funky, unwashed ass.

The reviews haven't yet told us about his flat little ARSE.

I refuse to be Gay-Baited!

I refuse to pay money for this tawdry little movie about Edward and Bill.

[quote] My Policeman

Who plays the policeman and who plays the 'me'?

Can we please have some stars with substance?

What the hell is Harry and Princess Diana wearing? David Dawson is a good actor.

David Dawson was chosen because his gaunt, emaciated appearance makes Harry appear comparatively attractive.

This new movie sounds as appealing as smell dish-rags, outdoor lavvies and sewer smells.

He's quite cute

Is there any Oscars buzz for Emma Corrin’s badly shaved flaps?

That woman's headed to the pool or what?

R22, Ha, I thought I was the only one who noticed the unshaven legs through the stockings.

^ She is playing a member of the working class.

She is married to a policeman.

Is that a boy or a girl in the middle?

That hand bag though 😂😂

it’s funny how he dresses like his usual stylish granny look for his gay movie and butched it up for his straight movie.

He really does dress like an old lady. Like he ransacked Diane Keaton’s closet.

Oscar simply adores the hairy styles of Harry Styles. "My Policeman" today, "My Oscar" tomorrow.

LOL the contrast between those obsessed with Twitter likes and the actual reviews

Even the Guardian puts the boot in

Variety:

[quote] Harry Styles Accepts His First Acting Award of Oscar Season

[quote] Harry Styles — a man of relatively few words — and the cast of “My Policeman” received the ensemble award at the (TIFF) festival’s Tribute Awards on Sunday night.

See the acceptance speeches vid at link.

Of course he accepted it, he paid for it.

[quote]Everett is stuck in a thankless role that essentially just requires him to dribble and wail

Lovely.

David Dawson was amazing in The Road To Coronation Street as Tony Warren.

Even if you've never seen the show, or the Victoria Wood tribute, it's worth watching.

If Cher can win an Oscar...

The reviews are terrible. This season will see two big prestige flops for him, effectively ending any bid he may have had to be a serious actor. No one will hire him.

Agreed r36…

It was a mistake to go from a bit part in Dunkirk (I can't say I even remember his role) to two big Oscar baity movies in a row. They should have slowly maneuvered him into acting slowly, in smaller parts, so he could gain experience without the burden of trying to carry a serious movie on his untalented shoulders.

Vulture article asking if Styles is a good actor - they conclude that no, he isn't

R11, I disagree. I loved what Buñuel did with Obscure Object of Desire and alternating scenes with two actresses playing the lead female role. It really ratcheted up the madness and obsession that Fernando Rey had for someone he viewed as a possession and not as a person.

Is that what is going on here? Two actors sharing the same role?

Styles is reasonably attractive once he's cleaned up for a period drama, but the other guy, David Dawson looks, well, "English."

[quote]Is that what is going on here? Two actors sharing the same role?

I haven't seen the movie but the reviews say Harry plays the character as a young man in the 1950s. They cast older actors to show the characters in the 1990s.

The Wrap reviewer complains that there is a performance gap between the younger and older versions of the characters that can't be squared with just living with homophobia and with age.

[quote] The marked difference between the two men over the course of 40 years signifies the ways in which the decades of enduring brutal homophobia have hardened Tom into someone brittle and abrasive, but there’s no connective tissue, performance-wise, between Styles and Roache. The rift feels so vast that at times it’s even hard to square that they are playing the same character.

[quote] The same goes for Patrick: Dawson’s Patrick is sleek and erudite, though caring, and in his later years, Everett’s version has evaporated any sense of politesse, even accounting for the fact that he is recovering from a stroke. Time and trauma have not been good to these men, but the writing doesn’t offer any solid characterization or sparks of recognition. There are no threads between the young men of this story and the older for the audience to grasp onto.

Harry's hideous tattoos will add to the budget of having to remove them digitally. Such a stupid life choice.

R41 Madness and obsession …Obscure Object of Desire

Madness and obsession is acceptable and expected from Luis Buñuel, Ingmar Bergman and those other sophisticated arty movies adored by Woody Allen-types.

But this new policeman movie is geared towards soppy teenagers, and it's impossible for an ordinary audience to get an emotional link from two different actors with different physiognomy.

(The same problem occurs in 'The Go-Between' and some of those Charles Dickens' movies)

With 14 reviews it's at 50% on RT

I no longer have faith in critic reviews.

My Policeman has a first name.

It’s G-E-I-G-H

I’m so disappointed in Emma Corrin. She impressed me in The Crown, but between her sense of style and gender fluidity bullshit, I can’t take her seriously.

[quote] David Dawson DEMANDS an Oscar nomination and Gina McKee was fabulous as well. ❤️

Mary!

Styles fans are trying to insist one of the reviewers is homophobic because they referred to Corin's character as "her". This is based on Corin using "they" - again, the reviewer weren't referring to Corin, but Corin's character. That's the level his stans are at to try and dismiss the negative reviews

Nonbinary, pronouns and all the genderqueer tranny shit is what is homophobic.

Some of the plot sounds similar to THE MAN IN THE ORANGE SHIRT.

It’s a rotten 44% now.

R45, they don’t remove tattoos digitally.

[quote]I’m so disappointed in Emma Corrin. She impressed me in The Crown, but between her sense of style and gender fluidity bullshit, I can’t take her seriously.

She's typical of a certain type of British posho - privately educated at an all girls school, daughter of a white South African who didn't want to raise a family now the blicks are in charge, wants to reject the sense of privilege so identifies as Queer/Non Binary.

Series 4 of The Crown must be the poshest tv series ever made - Olivia Colman, Tobias Menzies, Helena BC, Emma Corrin, Josh O'Connor, Emerald Fennell all went to private schools. Erin Doherty must have felt very left out.

I shan't fail to miss it.

R57 doesn't see the irony of complaining about private schools and posh in relation to a show about the monarchy.

Also weird is his notion that people who went to state schools are incapable of finding themselves in the same room as people who went to private schools.

[quote]Also weird is his notion that people who went to state schools are incapable of finding themselves in the same room as people who went to private schools.

They often are, the British acting scene is notoriously difficult for those who don't have the right backgrounds to break into

Acting (and journalism) in the UK is still over represented by privately educated poshos.

Claire Foy and Matt Smith both went to the local state school. Vanessa Kirby and Victoria Hamilton went to private schools.

Imelda Staunton, Jonathan Pryce and Lesley Manville went to the local school, Dominic West and Olivia Williams are both privately educated.

Are you saying Erin Doherty's incapable of being in the same room as Olivia Coleman and Helena Bonham Carter, r60?

My Policeman actors Harry Styles and David Dawson both went to state schools.

r62 I'm saying people from normal backgrounds have a tough time being allowed into the room in the first place.

I disagree, r64. Look at the casts of most UK TV shows and they are from "normal" backgrounds. For something like The Crown, which is about "posh" people, a more "posh" cast seemed to work, although there are still also many cast members from "normal" backgrounds, Claire Foy, for example. Private schools value drama lessons, staging plays, etc. more than state schools and so people who go to private schools have more opportunity to experience acting - but it's only the fault of state schools if they don't offer those opportunities. The idea that people from state schools are "kept out" of the room by people who went to private schools is nonsense, though.

“Posh” = non-U

Well, does he show his arse or cock?

[quote]I disagree

It hardly matters if you agree or not, it's a fact.

[quote]but it's only the fault of state schools if they don't offer those opportunities.

What a fucking stupid thing to say. Yeah, it's not like the Tories have repeatedly slashed arts funding or anything, and it's surely not like the acting world works on connections and who you know. You clearly have no clue what you're talking about, so it's best that you stop pretending that you do. Typical Tory twat.

You sound very young, R68.

Or you sound like an obsessed Marxist.

Or someone seeking to blame others for your failure in life.

Freud said the Irish can’t be helped in therapy.

Freud was wise.

But the odor…

I’ve tried but I can’t get it up for Harry Styles.

[Quote]Harry looking all movie-star-like at TIFF.

Makes a change from the pearl necklace, and not the kind from oysters.

Styles isn’t attractive to me. His face, hair, body, mannerisms doesn’t appeal to me.

Styles has no style.

What's his arse like?

I don’t get the appeal. Has anyone ever gotten so far on so little?

Styles is as unappealing as a stile.

Having just finished the book (and not yet seen the film), I have a hard time imagining Styles as Tom. I also believe this would have been better as a limited series so that you could flesh out the story and characters better.

The novel toggles between the wife's POV and the lover's. Tom winds up being a bit of a cipher so any adaptation would need to build up his character for the piece to work dramatically.

Given many of reviews, I have low expectations of the film but will watch anyway.

Stans seldom make for objective opinions about the objects of their stanning.

Whatever "sad last days of Twitter" reviews may say, it's being demolished in more objective media outlets.

Oscar buzz....more like Razzie shoo-in.

More like “My Giant Piece of Shit.” Harry can’t act.

[quote]Movie which have two actors playing the same character NEVER EVER work.

I found the casting very confusing. The actor playing her older husband looked like the gay lover more than the policeman (only more attractive). So I kept wondering how did she divorce the policeman and wind up with the guy she knew was gay?

I thought Harry was very handsome, but he is not a natural acting talent.

Here’s his flat butt and asshole for a split second

Just saw this. I actually liked it a lot. Didn't shy away from the gay sex either.

Harry Styles is very dapper these days isn't she.

Harry Styles is bland as fuck. He doesn't have the charisma to pull off an adrogynous look. He persists with these silly accoutrements because they are the only thing interesting about him.

^ androgynous

What is he going to wear now that Alessandro Michele stood down as Gucci designer?

They's leotard is hideous.

Harry Styles was actually pretty good in this. I'm not sure if I consider it award worthy.