This is England generated £207,676 on its first opening week in the UK box office, at 62 screens. The films highest ever grossing in the U.K was £1,315,593. The film made a box office grossing of $8,176,544 world wide in total, making it a huge success for an independent film and surpassing Shane Meadow's previous film Dead Man Shoes which was also produced by Film Four.
Rewards
This is England won a few awards such as a BAFTA for best British film in 2008 and British independent award for best British independent film.
Critic Reviews
On 5 January 2008, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 93% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 82 reviews. Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 86 out of 100, based on 23 reviews — indicating "universal acclaim".This made it the tenth best reviewed film of the year.
The film appeared on several US critics' top ten movie lists of 2007; it was third on the list by Newsweek's David Ansen, seventh on the list by The Oregonian's Marc Mohan, and ninth on the list by Los Angeles Times' Kevin Crust. In Britain, director Gillies Mackinnon rated the film the best of the year and David M. Thompson, critic and film-maker, rated it third.The film was ranked fourteenth in The Guardian's list of 2007's Best Films and fifteenth in Empire's Movies of the Year.
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