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By Facebook U (1,208) on 07 Sep 2018

Though beautifully photographed and well acted, this overlong tedious slog features a rather inconsequential story that cold have been presented…

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By Gerald Peary (163) for Arts Fuse (166) on 06 Sep 2018

Reading is treated as a commodity, namedropping literary titles as a way for middlebrow film audiences to feel proud of themselves for being…

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By Brad Keefe (343) for Columbus Alive (355) on 04 Sep 2018

The Bookshop is a movie that makes me want to read the book it's based on, though I can't quite recommend the film…

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By Moira Macdonald (1,892) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 04 Sep 2018

The Bookshop is a gentle, quiet film in which not a whole lot happens…

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By Kelly Vance (1,015) for East Bay Express (1,012) on 03 Sep 2018

But it's Mortimer's obstinate, headstrong, heartbroken Florence we care about, because she's the only one in town who possesses the inner life…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 01 Sep 2018

Thanks to the expert craft contributions and the delicious turns by Mortimer and Nighy, Coixet's 'Bookshop,' while not as sharp as it might…

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By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 31 Aug 2018

So little happens, you could probably solve a crossword while watching it; that's how little attention need be paid…

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By Andrea Chase (1,182) for Killer Movie Reviews (1,182) on 31 Aug 2018

Nighy has never given a more moving performance, and few others have…

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By Tim Appelo (178) for AARP Movies for Grownups (302) on 30 Aug 2018

If you like British period drama, this may hit the spot, but it's an extraordinarily slow, low-key story…

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By Steve Murray (153) for ArtsATL (57) on 30 Aug 2018

Ultimately, The Bookshop dramatizes a kind of very British, quiet, polite asphyxiation…

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By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 30 Aug 2018

Hang a CLOSED sign in the window: it's another film with a strong female character that's cushioned in the safety and comfort of the recent past…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 30 Aug 2018

For a movie that is about a collection of oddballs, it can sometimes feel rather generic. But at its core, the film is not a comedy at all…

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By Rain Jokinen (125) for MullingMovies.com (31) on 30 Aug 2018

The Bookshop is classically British, from its salty seaside characters, to its fireplaces and knit shawls, and especially to [its] central conflict…

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By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for PopMatters (2,617) on 30 Aug 2018

The contrast between our first impressions of Hardborough, a picturesque Suffolk seaside village, and the reality of the town's power structure,…

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By Alison Gillmor (124) for Winnipeg Free Press (342) on 30 Aug 2018

Mortimer's Florence, who is motivated not so much by high-flown idealism as stubborn everyday determination, holds our attention when she's…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 29 Aug 2018

[A] staid drama that seems to have repressed its own thoughts and feelings…

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By M. Faust (314) for The Public (Buffalo) (288) on 29 Aug 2018

No film that stars Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, and Patricia Clarkson could be counted as unwatchable, but this one has to go down as a dreary…

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By Anita Katz (182) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 29 Aug 2018

Neither a dud nor a cinematic page-turner, the movie ultimately proves too mild and ordinary to satisfy beyond the level of a passable rainy-day…

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By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 29 Aug 2018

It's a heavy-handed version of small-town rebellion that devastates any trace of subtlety like a heft tome smashing an errant spider…

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By Peter Hartlaub (620) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 28 Aug 2018

The Bookshop isn't an especially good film, but there's no shortage of good in it…

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