The latest release from British working-class hero Ken Loach
is a bleak offering. It’s a portrait of a family in the midst of financial and
personal crisis, primarily through Kris Hitchen’s humbling turn as a father who
has just started a job as a white van man delivering packages. It carries
next-to-no flash and about as humdrum as a release can get these days, and yet
it carries an emotional intensity that makes for one of the most crushing films
of the year.
