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Yardie
Directed by
Idris Elba
Not Rated
2018
1h 41m
Drama
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Crime
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5.8
53%
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British crime drama film directed by Idris Elba based on the novel of the same name by Jamaican-born writer Victor Headley.
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Cast of Yardie
Aml Ameen
D aka Dennis Campbell
Stephen Graham
Rico
Shantol Jackson
Yvonne
Calvin Demba
Sticks
Sheldon Shepherd
King Fox
Adnan Mustafa
Engin
Duramaney Kamara
Darkers
Everaldo Creary
Jerry Dread
Fraser James
Piper
Riaze Foster
Clancy
Naomi Ackie
Mona
Akin Gazi
Arif
Mark Rhino Smith
Raggz
Johann Myers
Beenie
Jumayn Hunter
Tyrone
Rayon McLean
Skeets
Antwayne Eccleston
Young D
Treshawna Douglas
Young Yvonne
Rahem Edwards
Young Clancy
Myla-Rae Hutchinson-Dunwell
Vanessa
Eddie Nestor
Pastor
Nadine Marshall
Sister Hammond
Christopher Daly
Marcus
Chris Ann Fletcher
Claudette
Alexandra Vaz
Beverley
Tolu Ogunmefun
Nigerian International Calls Supervisor
Sean Lyn
Mr. Cheung
Tanika Bailey
Rita
Carol Lawes
Gran
Paul Haughton
Rupie
Alistair Cope
PC Evans
Dave Hart
Customs Officer
Derek Lea
Driver
Micah Williams
Red Catz (as Mr Williamz)
Daz KK Dua
Red Cat Sound DJ
Karl Farrer
Passerby (uncredited)
Rachel Sophia-Anthony
Traveller
Idris Elba
Director
Martin Stellman
Writer
Gina Carter
Producer
Robin Gutch
Producer
Yardie Ratings & Reviews
FilmWeek (LAist)
Peter Rainer
Fairly routine... I wish the ethnic aspects of this film had come to the fore more and that they had played down the druggie stuff that we had already seen a million times.
MovieJawn
Jaime Davis
I may not be rushing to watch Yardie again but I will be tuning to this soundtrack again and again.
Decider
John Serba
Although the story won't stick with you, Yardie is inspired visually, and worth watching for Elba's vivid direction.
We Are Movie Geeks
Cate Marquis
The story is a crowd-pleaser, even if it is predictable, and will leave audiences with a nice little taste of Jamaican culture.
KDHX (St. Louis)
Diane Carson
The pace editor Justine Wrights sets keeps the action clipping along, with some striking cross cutting. And yet, over all, Yardie feels for all the world like a familiar ride to nowhere new.
TheWrap
Yolanda Machado
The acting is decent, the cinematography is well executed, and the music is on point, but the delivery and the tone are completely mismatched.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
What sets Elba's movie apart is the distinctive world he creates, in the rhythm of the music, in the raw, gritty poetry of the language, and in the powerful mythology it mines.
Detroit News
Adam Graham
While "Yardie" hits familiar beats, viewers get the sense they're on Elba's turf.
RogerEbert.com
Odie Henderson
The film is saddled with an extraneous narration that mercilessly distracts the viewer.
Entertainment Weekly
Chris Nashawaty
Yardie is a sprawling drug-world saga, but whatever narrative flaws it has are helped out by an infectious selection of dub-heavy reggae tracks and an authentically gritty sense of period and place.
Rolling Stone
David Fear
Headley's book is a hard nugget crackling with urgency. This feels like soft-boiled pulp.
Los Angeles Times
Gary Goldstein
Elba brings care to the film's performances, period look and musical elements. But the freeze frames, needless voice-over bits and stalled narrative momentum undercut the picture's potential power and uniqueness.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
Elba grew up in Hackney, and also worked as a D.J., and his familiarity with the community is visible in the movie's evocation of a tumultuous world suffused with lowlife scheming and thumping tunes.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Elba has a nice day job acting and he ought to stick with it.
National Newspaper Publishers Association
Dwight Brown
There wouldn't be a long list of "ifs," had Yardie been stripped down to its core.
Slant Magazine
Derek Smith
The film's tendency to break the "show, don't tell" directive becomes especially irksome in its homestretch.
IndieWire
David Ehrlich
As it stands, Yardie seldom amounts to anything more than a collection of vaguely related scenes, simultaneously both too muddled and too straightforward to have any resonance beyond the moment at hand.
Variety
Guy Lodge
"Yardie" has the right look, the right sound and the right moves to play with the bigger boys of its genre; like its young, scrappy but naive hero, however, there's not quite enough power behind its posturing.
The Hollywood Reporter
David Rooney
It's a pedestrian effort that could have used a serious hit of Elba's dangerous charisma onscreen.
RogerEbert.com
Nick Allen
Throughout the messy experience of "Yardie," [Idris] Elba's interest in storytelling gets ahead of his lacking visual instincts. Though I'm curious to see what story he tells next, Elba proves to not yet have an original voice behind the camera.
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