Nicholas Hytner

The Choral (3*): A Nice Period Piece Let Down By Clunky Dialogue.

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A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Choral” (2025, 3*, 12A). I’d been looking forward to “The Choral”, as had the Illustrious Mrs Movie Man, and intentionally avoided seeing it at the LFF as I knew the IMMM was keen to see it. But I have to admit to being a little disappointed by it. … Read more

One Mann’s Movies Film Review: The Lady in the Van (2015)

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When you see vagrants sleeping rough in doorways it is grimly fascinating to wonder how they got there. Was it a gradual descent due to drink or drugs?  Or was it an ‘explosive decompression’ – an event so dramatic it capsized an otherwise stable existence?  In a gripping pre-title sequence, it is the latter that sets … Read more