The End We Start From (15)

★★★✭ Jodie Comer is magnificent in this British environmental catastrophe, post-apocalyptic survival movie. ~ ManchesterTheatres.com.

Mahalia Belo’s confident feature debut brings Megan Hunter’s acclaimed 2017 dystopian novel to the screen as a disaster movie, whose immense power derives from the intimacy of its performances.

An excellent Jodie Comer, playing the young mother, is joined by a uniformly superb cast, including Joel Fry and Katherine Waterson, who convey the emotional gravity of this poignant and unsettlingly prophetic tale of survival against the odds, which has echoes of The Road and Children of Men.

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★★★★ Jodie Comer is a force of nature in this apocalyptic drama. ~ Total Film.

★★★★ Comer is phenomenal in this end-of-days survival thriller, adapted from Megan Hunter’s novel. ~ The Observer.

★★★★ Comer plays a new mother navigating a flooded Britain in Mahalia Belo’s nuanced nail-biter. This smart eco-thriller has mainstream oomph. ~ Financial Times.

★★★★ The actor is the beating heart of a film that looks at the momentous decision to love and raise a life in the face of disaster. ~ Evening Standard.

★★★★ The movie’s other strength, besides Comer, is the realism it finds in environmental catastrophe. ~ The Times.

★★★★ It’s nourishing, frequently moving, and ends with heroic understatement, where a cruder film would have gone all out for the heartstrings. ~ Telegraph.