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Mindhorn

2016

Sean Foley

Essie Davis, Andrea Riseborough, Harriet Walter, Simon Callow ...

4.9

669

Comedy When MI5 Special Operative Bruce Mindhorn was captured in the late 1980s, his eye was replaced by a super-advanced optical lie detector, which meant he could literally “see the truth”. He escaped and fled to the Isle of Man, to recuperate in the island’s temperate microclimate, and today has become the best plain-clothes detective the island has ever seen.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It is directed with a light and playful touch by Sean Foley (...) 'Mindhorn' is a creation to savour (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"Though stuck with stretches of guff and looking all too convincingly like video-era rubbish TV, 'Mindhorn' delivers regular proper laughs and eventually wrings just enough drops of pathos to scrape by (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Stephen Dalton The Hollywood Reporter	"An inspired satire on show business ego and trashy TV tropes (...) 'Mindhorn' is never less than good fun"	POS
United Kingdom	Charles Gant Screendaily	"Julian Barratt and Simon Farnaby fly the flag for a rare original idea with the goofy, genial, fitfully inspired 'Mindhorn'."	POS
United States	Oliver Lyttelton The Playlist	"The film is very, very funny (...) It just feels refreshing for a British comedy to have as much dumb ambition as it has."	POS
United Kingdom	Geoffrey Macnab The Independent	"It’s engaging and funny enough but can’t ever quite shake off the suspicion that it’s an idea stretched beyond its means (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU

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Porvenir (TV Miniseries)

2020

Alfonso Cortés-Cavanillas

6.8

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