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Downton Abbey: A New Era movie review: should we improve society somewhat, or nah?

Fri, Apr 29, 2022
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Steady your heart palpitations: it’s the same old era for the nicest feudal hangover. The delusional reactionary fantasy of wealth and privilege for some, cheerful servitude for others remains intact.

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Silent Night movie review: house party at the end of the world

Sun, Dec 19, 2021
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Apocalyptically sorta-satirical, bone-deep terrifying slap in the face that humanity has properly earned. Formidable, intense… and funny, in a very dry way that is nevertheless difficult to laugh at.

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Official Secrets movie review: blow all the whistles

Mon, Sep 23, 2019
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Not a spy thriller but a story of emotional and intellectual suspense wrangling with matters of patriotism and of conscience, and of just how far journalism’s watchdog role can and should take it.

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Downton Abbey movie review: embarrassment of riches

Thu, Sep 19, 2019
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Wherein the working class revels in servitude, and wealth and privilege are deserved. Deeply reactionary and unlikely to please anyone not already enamored of the show. I get Anglophilia, but really?

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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society movie review: the stories too painful to tell

Fri, Apr 20, 2018
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A wonderfully old-fashioned tearjerker, with a thoroughly delightful cast, where cosy quaint Englishness is leavened by a harsh reality of World War II that pop culture has ignored.

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Self/less movie review: mind/less, brain/less, point/less

Thu, Jul 16, 2015
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Glances at fundamental questions of identity and humanity and decides that they are best resolved via fistfights, gun battles, and car chases.

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Belle movie review: untold stories

Fri, Jun 13, 2014
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Wonderful true story about a mixed-race woman raised in aristocratic late-18th-century England; like the best Jane Austen romance with a social conscience.

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female gazing at: Matthew Goode

Mon, Jan 31, 2011
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Don’t be jealous if I tell you I once knew a guy who looked a lot like Matthew Goode…

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A Single Man (review)

Thu, Jan 21, 2010
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Fashion designer Tom Ford has made the cinematic equivalent of a fashion magazine spread…

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January 8: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings

Sat, Jan 09, 2010
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We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, except you’re way too scared to actually ask out the girl you like. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you on Monday, “Hey, did you see Youth … more…

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