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By Jared Mobarak (867) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 22 Aug 2018

What seemed a slight melodrama transforms into a treatise on privately financed, bureaucratically sanctioned censorship…

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By Sandie Angulo Chen (751) for Common Sense Media (4,943) on 21 Aug 2018

Bittersweet period drama about the joys of reading…

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By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 21 Aug 2018

It's weighed down by unnecessary narration and a surprising lack of conflict…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 20 Aug 2018

A big political allegory of a novel barely animated to life by a top notch cast…

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By April Wolfe (199) for Village Voice (8,525) on 19 Aug 2018

Sometimes nice to be reminded of violence of the papercut variety, that some troubles can be worked through without an ass-kicking…

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By Derek Smith (382) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Aug 2018

Writer-director Isabel Coixet's intermittent visual flourishes do little to amplify the stakes of her low-key narrative…

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By Graham Fuller (154) for Culture Trip (49) on 14 Aug 2018

It's an unsentimental - even strangely violent - and affecting movie that speaks to the current siege on reading, literacy and independent…

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By Buzz R (2) on 17 Jul 2018

Rich characters played out beautifully. Grabs the period and the biases of the period. Loved it…

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By Martin F (211) on 17 Jul 2018

Rich characters played out beautifully. Grabs the period and the biases of the period. Loved it…

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By Edward Porter (366) for Sunday Times (UK) (753) on 01 Jul 2018

I'm not sure the story deserves to be told - the animosity towards the bookseller seems too petty to be worthy of drama…

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By Matthew Bond (673) for The Mail on Sunday (UK) (704) on 01 Jul 2018

Mortimer is wasted, Bill Nighy dreadful and Patricia Clarkson all at sea…

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By Matt Wolf (69) for The Arts Desk (640) on 30 Jun 2018

Following hard on the lamentable Book Club, here's another film that appears not to know what to do with the landscape of the printed word…

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By Polly T (16) on 29 Jun 2018

OK it was slow moving, but I really enjoyed this film. Loved the photography of the location. And a few chuckles…

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By Anthony D (454) on 29 Jun 2018

OK it was slow moving, but I really enjoyed this film. Loved the photography of the location. And a few chuckles…

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By Ed Potton (195) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 28 Jun 2018

It's memorable for its subtle unconventionality - sad without being a weepy, touching without being a romance…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 28 Jun 2018

It is a strange, subdued, rather miserable film, interestingly perceptive on conformism and philistinism as a way of life, and on the disconcerting…

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By Nigel Andrews (1,359) for Financial Times (1,822) on 27 Jun 2018

It's staggeringly inept, like an am-dram in a Berlitz language class…

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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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