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  • Black Book (2006)
    Review preview for Black Book

    Uniformly brilliant.

    Caro Ness · 5 out of 5
    Paul Verhoeven returns to Europe for an epic wartime tale.
  • The Black Book Of Father Dinis (2018)
    Review preview for The Black Book Of Father Dinis

    Although it uses relatively few locations they're attractively shot, in a style which, curiously, owes more to the work of Dutch artists of the period than to that of the French.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    A picaresque chronicle of Laura, a peasant maid, and Sebastian, the young orphan in her charge, against a backdrop of overflowing passion and revolutionary intrigue in Europe at the twilight of the 18th Century.
  • Black Books: The Complete 1st Series (2000)
    Classic British sitcom about three misfits who run the worst bookshop in Britain.
  • Black Books: The Complete Third Series (2004)
    The Black Book Trio are back with even more morbid humour in their third series.

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