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  • About Schmidt (2002)
    Review preview for About Schmidt

    About Schmidt is about wasted lives. These people are dull, sad or whingesomely vulgar. You laugh at them, rather than with them, and feel guilty doing so.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Jack Nicholson is a 66-year-old insurance man, recently widowed and retired, in Omaha, Nebraska
  • Nebraska (2013)
    Review preview for Nebraska

    Behind the surface simplicity of a father and son road trip lurks a sharp and bitter-sweet odyssey with a strong sense of satire.

    Richard Mowe · 4 out of 5
    An alcoholic father and his resentful son travel cross-country together to collect big sweepstake winnings.
  • Summer '03 (2018)
    Review preview for Summer '03

    King has fantastic comic timing.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A 16-year-old girl and her extended family are left reeling after her calculating grandmother unveils an array of secrets on her deathbed.
  • Thelma (2024)
    Review preview for Thelma

    Silly in places but smart in others, and well structured throughout.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    When 93-year-old Thelma Post gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson, she sets out on a treacherous quest across the city to reclaim what was taken from her.

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