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Review of Tomas Alfredson’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Tomas Alfredson's slow-burning, balletic adaptation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is rich in atmosphere, dripping with character and repressed emotion. →
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Let the Right One In
Let the Right One In, currently on release in the UK, is a subtitled Swedish art house film set in the early '80s in an impoverished suburban setting, thick with snow and ice. The main character is a 12 year old boy with a perpetually runny nose whose parents are separated, his father an alcoholic. Dialogue is sparse and the bulk of the story is taken up by a schoolboy's struggle against some playground bullies. The critics are loving it. I thought it was ok. →