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The Lady in the Van

2015

Nicholas Hytner

Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings, Jim Broadbent, Dominic Cooper ...

5.9

3,372

Drama. Comedy A man forms an unexpected bond with a transient woman living in her car that's parked in his driveway.

	Author	Review
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"A grandly ornery Maggie Smith is the chief draw in this slight, innocuously enjoyable adaptation of Alan Bennett's memoir"	POS
United States	Joe Morgenstern The Wall Street Journal	"Wonderfully funny, terribly touching and a vehicle (...) for the boundless gifts of Maggie Smith"	POS
United States	Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"[A] witty dark comedy (...)It's Smith's eccentric oldster who is the film's driving force, and the 80-year-old actress doesn't disappoint"	POS
United States	Kyle Smith New York Post	"The movie's mix of passivity and grit, of hostility and politeness, of eccentricity and rule-following, adds up to something: a meditation on that peculiar state of existence called Englishness (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"'The Lady in the Van' isn’t the first movie I’ve endured solely to watch Smith weave her particular brand of screen magic"	NEG
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Maggie Smith can do anything - even save this rickety vehicle from a case of the terminal cutes. (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"In Ms. Smith’s tough, levelheaded performance, Mary is an irascible termagant full of batty notions clutching on to life as best she can. She is hard to like, and that’s good."	NEU

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