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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 03 Oct 2001

The film is thrillingly, unapologetically about decency and honour, about, as Laura heartrendingly puts it, controlling oneself…

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By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 27 Feb 2001

Tender without being melodramatic, intense without being tawdry…

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By Tim Dirks (207) for Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films (207) on 01 Jan 2000

Brief Encounter (1946) is director David Lean's brilliantly-crafted, classic British masterpiece - a simple but realistically-honest, unsentimental,…

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By Jenny Mccartney (26) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 31 May 1990

Director David Lean’s magnificent rendering of the short, passionate, and unconsummated affair between two middle-class, middle-aged Brits…

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By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 21 Sep 1985

Encounter remains the definition of timeless, a beautifully shot, heartbreakingly acted, minutely detailed illustration of thoroughly recognizable…

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By Pauline Kael (368) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 08 Nov 1967

Beautifully monochrome rendering of a love that cannot be…

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By Nick Hilditch (12) for BBC (137) on 21 Jul 1952

David Lean ably directed Noel Coward's script for this intensely passionate film in which almost nothing happens…

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