‘Sorry We Missed You’ is the film we need for these times

The rap on Ken Loach is a lack of subtlety. I could expend a hundred words parsing how the OED defines ‘subtlety,’ but suffice it to say that when films are as transparent — crystalline — as Loach’s and still reward several watches, the quibbling looks silly. In Sorry We Missed You, the British chronicler

Denmark: “If you can’t get your work done in the standard 37 hours a week, you’re seen as inefficient”

One of Ronald Reagan’s quips was right on: “It’s true that hard work never killed a man, but why take the chance?” A study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development reveals that, yes, working more than fifty hours a week does not make you more productive, much less happier: we work the most