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By Geoffrey Macnab (1,253) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 26 Jun 2018

At times, it may seem off-key but there is an irony and originality here that you wouldn't find if a British director had been calling the shots…

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By James Mottram (656) for The List (2,018) on 24 Jun 2018

Restrained, but never overly so, The Bookshop deserves plenty of custom…

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By Matthew Toomey (680) for ABC Radio Brisbane (680) on 23 Jun 2018

Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson and Bill Nighy are all accomplished actors but their talents are not enough to save this confusing mess…

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By Tom Bedford (8) for Film Inquiry (1,269) on 21 Jun 2018

Coixert's attempts to keep intact too many of the book's plot threads don't give most of them sufficient time to flourish, resulting in themes…

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By Vicky Roach (269) for Daily Telegraph (Australia) (376) on 03 Jun 2018

Although it celebrates an essentially antiquated art form, The Bookshop is rigorously unsentimental in tone…

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By Sandra Hall (505) for Sydney Morning Herald (1,256) on 31 May 2018

[Isabel] Coixet has no trouble with her theme, which is centred on the power of ideas and the books that contain them…

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By David Stratton (799) for The Australian (781) on 24 May 2018

I had real problems with her adaptation. It's hard to describe exactly why it fails to ring true, but somehow it just seems phony…

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By Leigh Paatsch (1,103) for Herald Sun (Australia) (1,081) on 23 May 2018

Exactly why The Bookshop takes almost two hours to stitch together this threadbare tale is not so much a mystery as it is a miscalculation…

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By David 'Mad Dog' Bradley (480) for Adelaide Review (243) on 23 May 2018

A period piece with more fine performances and an obvious but nevertheless very pleasing pro-reading message…

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By Adam Fresco (54) for Flicks.co.nz (982) on 21 May 2018

Measured and thoughtful, yet emotionally unengaging…

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By Graeme Tuckett (166) for Stuff.co.nz (387) on 16 May 2018

The Bookshop ends up as a fine advertisement for its namesake. Buy the book and stay home…

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By Louise Keller (804) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 01 May 2018

Lovers of books and admirers of determination will embrace this enchanting film. I hope you will enjoy it, too…

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By Pablo A. Scholz (320) for Clarín (492) on 16 Apr 2018

The Catalan director [Isabel Coixet] tells the story, which takes place at the end of the '50s, without bombast, and with a sober, but romantic…

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By Ezequiel Boetti (37) for Otroscines.com (322) on 15 Apr 2018

An elegant story, precise and overcoming, though at times also a bit obvious. [Full Review in Spanish]…

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By Juan Pablo Russo (20) for EscribiendoCine (248) on 10 Apr 2018

The director appeals to classicism with constant conversations between her characters, subtle dialogues and stagings that affect the tranquility…

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By Tim Robey (1,578) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 19 Feb 2018

Coixet's script is a long way off perfect, but it's the least of her problems; the second least is the film's dirge of a score, but even that's…

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By Michael Leader (59) for Sight and Sound (827) on 19 Feb 2018

Coixet's comfortable approach to Fitzgerald's material rarely rises above a simmer, favouring polite conversations laced with passive-aggressive…

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By Demetrios Matheou (85) for Screen International (2,241) on 19 Feb 2018

Ironically, given the subject, the script is stilted, with actors often stuck on pause and not even the silver-tongued Nighy able to coax more…

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By Kevin Maher (647) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 16 Feb 2018

It doesn't help that the film is pulverised by wall-to-wall narration…

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By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 16 Feb 2018

A fine, sensitive leading turn from Emily Mortimer helps shore up these quiet, lightly dust-covered proceedings, but can't quite put The Bookshop…

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