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Brian and Charles (2022)
just a delight
If you like the sort of humour that completely dumbfounds most Americans, this is the film for you. Nuff said. Oh. 'Needs to contain at least 150 characters'. That should crack it.
Vigil (2021)
entertaining nonsense
Gripping, twisting plot with some good performances - thoroughly enjoyable and entirely forgettable.
Dark (2017)
Endless nonsense
Well made and atmospheric but I refer you to my title.
Viceroy's House (2017)
A disservice to the cast and the subject
I am gobsmacked that this film has had any positive reviews.
To address such a weighty subject with such a clunky, facile and condescending script is a terrible waste. I honestly think some of the (great) actors looked at embarrassed at some of the lines they had to deliver.
At one point, Lord Mountbatten, having accepted the role of becoming Viceroy, packed his bags, flown out to India and been installed into his residence is told by his new colleagues that there is (I am paraphrasing only slightly) "unrest between the Hindus and the Muslims and maybe we should consider partition". If Hugh Bonneville had turned round and said "Well, Durr!" I would have whooped with joy.
And don't get me started on the crassest denouement imaginable to the sub-plot..