Review of The Lady in the Van (2015) by Steven K — 08 May 2016

Hilarious? NOT. "marvelous perfomance?" I think Maggie Smith could play a role like this in her sleep. I hoped for a much more entertaining movie than this rather dull little film. There may be "quality" stamped all over it, but I kept thinking, "Okay, when is this gonna get wither really funny or really intriguing?" Instead, it just sat there, a film as inert as the van the homeless woman adopts as her permanent home on a writer's property.

I notice the critics score is much higher than the audience score; I concur with the 32% of the audience that didn't find this movie as charming as we'd hoped. Ms. Smith is a fine actress but this "van" was not a great vehicle for the lady's talent.