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Charm emits exuberantly from Mary Ann Shaffer’s debut, and sadly only, novel: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, and so it is with Mike Newell’s new film adaptation, in which Lily James plays a writer who falls for a community who survived Nazi occupation via their passion for stories.
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Following Hugo, Wonderstruck is the second Brian Selznick book to find a home on the big screen. It’s every bit as ambitious as the Scorsese adaptation and equally beautiful, you just wish it were as coherent and less contrived.
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Quiet, quiet, quiet, BANG is so tiresome a cliché of horror that even when directors handle it well they are derided for crafting a cheap effect. But what if the BANG wasn’t so predictable? And what if you were utterly invested in the need for quiet?
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