This movie swings between touching and disturbing in a very nice way, and the acting is simply spectacular..

Touching story and great acting.

A very interesting experience of immersing yourself in the punk/skin subculture of England. A boy is looking for his way in life/friends, but it seems that they are leading you by the hand. Gives the start to an excellent series. 2 emotions after watching. It seems like if we were to go back in time, then so be it it was. It’s sad, why doesn’t anyone film something like that about us?

Very good movie with some important messages and superb acting. 7.5/10

To some people, this film comes across as glorifying racism, when it is in fact showcasing the complete opposite. Through the eyes of Shaun, an easily-swayed teen, This is England depicts the lead character going through what you can say is a coming-of-age experience where he makes severe choices to appease and fit in with new crowds, some choices he later comes to regret. Hence, making the "glorifying racism" aspect completely contrary.

As someone who was brought up in a multicultural town in Northern England, this film hits deep, as I've experienced and witnessed first-hand the near social-disjointedness between ethnic groups in modern society. Scary to think that in nearly forty years from which This is England is set, real-life England is still suffocating from archaic morals.

Shane Meadows has not made a film with This is England. He's made a statement, a statement which says that this shit happened, this shit still happens and this shit will continue to happen if nothing is done to stop it.

Heart-wrenching to watch, but watch you must.

Strong film, good social realism. Then there are so very more to raise about skinhead culture but it would be too messy. However, had hoped for a little more street punk and Thatcher hatred in the movie.

It is very good this chronicle of a child in the English of the 80s, the actors, script and music are fine.

Raw and real. Thatcher's Britian depicted in all its complexities. Spectacular.