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By David K (1,644) on 26 Nov 2010

I wasn't very impressed with this movie or any of the cast really, it wasn't very funny or enjoyable, but once in a while it has a funny moment,…

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By Pierluigi P (335) on 19 Nov 2010

Billy Fisher's choice at the end left me thinking two things…

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By Mikko D (95) on 02 Aug 2010

A hilarious surreal dark comedy from the mind of John Schlesinger…

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By Ripö M (410) on 02 Aug 2010

Shifts effortlessly between sobering realism and absurd flights of fancy. Beneath its comic veneer lies the anchor or real, ordinary life. Brilliant…

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By Andrew H (1,696) on 29 Apr 2010

One of the great movies of the 1960's, a unique work in the British New Cinema movement…

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By Kristen S (225) on 01 Apr 2010

Kind of a walter mitty meets kitchen sink urban english melodrama…

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By Marita L (14) on 10 Mar 2010

British New Wave classic with imagination and a ridiculously charismatic Tom Courtenay and a stunning Julie Christie in her first film…

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By Jonathan M (1,410) on 20 Oct 2009

Kind of like The Secret Life of Walter Mitty if Mitty was a young Malcolm McDowell type…

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By Patrick D (1,000) on 11 Aug 2009

*** (out of four) The first half seems a bit forced and a little silly, but as the film goes it gains depth and ends up saying quite a bit…

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By James T (1,309) on 01 Jul 2009

Required viewing for anyone who's wanted to escape the constraints of a humdrum town…

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By Private U (13,627) on 29 May 2009

This is such a beautifully crafted, light, yet ultimately moving portrait…

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By Dennis Schwartz (5,456) for Ozus' World Movie Reviews (5,456) on 17 Apr 2009

Even though it's a seminal movie of the sixties, it never reached me emotionally…

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By Edward O (27) on 14 Apr 2009

The film is a mildly entertaining diversion, light and fluffy, but conversely not very deep either…

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By Sean Axmaker (1,564) for Turner Classic Movies Online (77) on 03 Apr 2009

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By Diana S (414) on 06 Mar 2009

Absolute classic. #1 on tons of Criterion guest top tens. A film for filmmakers, not big hungry soda sipping audiences…

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By Chris M (3,023) on 03 Feb 2009

The boy in this movie has all the right ideas…

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By Melissa T (228) on 20 Dec 2008

A charming british comedy from the 60's that is ultimately quite touching…

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By Pavandeep S (469) on 20 Dec 2008

Easily, one of my favourite films ever…

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By Fraser B (58) on 07 Nov 2008

Think Pan's Labyrinth without the wooden goat, but still good…

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By Bill M (1,080) on 18 Sep 2008

A well-constructed British New Wave film that apparently stole its central idea from the short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty…

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