There are movies made to challenge you, and then there are movies like “The Bookshop.” Sweet, sad, and oh-so-British, the film is well-made and acted, but it’s also safe and sort of boring.
Patricia Clarkson
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Film preview: ‘The Party’
The idea of the dinner party that goes horribly wrong has served as the premise to any number of versatile, genre-spanning narratives over the years. Written and directed by Sally Potter, “The Party” offers little to break the mold of what’s come before, but thanks to a first-rate cast it still manages to be a […]
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Film Review: “Learning to Drive”
In the opening scenes of the pleasant but totally unremarkable “Learning to Drive,” Wendy, a fragile Manhattanite book critic played by Patricia Clarkson, learns that her husband has been seeing someone else and he plans to leave her (something he’s apparently tried several times before, though it appears that this time it’s going to stick). […]
