It’s a really watchable film, more substantial than most sports movies and many postwar dramas.

Peter Bradshaw

The Guardian

It’s contrary to the movie’s spirit to judge Bert, but the evasive treatment of his wartime experiences plays like a dodge: His past exists as a kind of amorphous trauma, reduced to shorthand in shamelessly placed flashbacks.

Ben Kenigsberg

The New York Times

This isn’t an A-picture, either behind the camera or in front of it. It plays like a competent TV film, lacking the polish or “names” of a “Downton Abbey,” but good enough to work.

Roger Moore

Movie Nation