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Like finding that perfect stage of moderate drunkenness in which the senses are sharpened rather than dulled, and time passes with leisurely grace.Read the full review
Gathering its forces slowly, this careful, thoughtful film, quietly but deeply moving, is dramatic without seeming to be.Read the full review
A funny and touching film that is gorgeously acted by a British cast to rival Gosford Park's.Read the full review
Delicately handled and superbly textured, this fine adaptation of Graham Swift's Booker Prize-winning novel deals with all the really big subjects: love, friendship, death, life.Read the full review
The movie's pace is unhurried by Hollywood standards, but it's all the richer in character detail.Read the full review
Sad and lovely.Read the full review
Shows the dying tremors of a generation, and you might feel as if you can see every molecule, every atom give up the ghost.Read the full review
Richly textured, beautifully acted.Read the full review
Too many films about the dead involve mourning, and too few involve laughter. Yet at lucky funerals there is a desire to remember the good times.Read the full review
If truth be told, the film is less than the sum of its parts; the main problem is the fragmented narrative structure, a legacy of the literary source. Still, it's a joy to see men and women with dense life stories played by powerful actors with long and distinguished careers.Read the full review
