Keeping Up with the Steins Critic Reviews
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Based upon 9 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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The movie is another of those harmless and politely made dark comedies that the English seem incapable of doing without.Read the full review
She's no Mary Poppins: Maggie Smith is more like a cheery Angel of Death in the light black comedy Keeping Mum, one of those dutifully daft British diddles (complete with Rowan Atkinson as a vicar) that, except for the blunt sex talk, might have been constructed decades ago.Read the full review
Weirdly clueless.Read the full review
The problem with this one may be that it just isn't British enough.Read the full review
Amusing dark English comedy produces its share of chuckles.Read the full review
It’s refreshing to see Dame Maggie in a lighter mode than usual. The role of a genteel psychopath is a piece of lemon tea cake she consumes in one delicate bite.Read the full review
Keeping Mum never really gets going, and it inches to the finish line like a narcoleptic turtle.Read the full review
Rather dark, decidedly English and exceedingly well played, Keeping Mum is a neatly crafted black comedy with more than a nod in tone toward the Ealing classic "The Ladykillers."Read the full review
A British black comedy, saves its best for last -- and God bless Maggie Smith for, well, being Maggie Smith -- but that requires sitting through a frustrating, uneven hour of sluggish preamble.Read the full review
