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The film has nothing to do with easy nostalgia; it's about real, credible people, and as such finally becomes very moving. Jan 26, 2006 | Full Review…
The film has nothing to do with easy nostalgia; it's about real, credible people, and as such finally becomes very moving.
Geoff Andrew
The result of this high-powered collaboration is a movie of such unrelieved genteelness that it makes one long to head for Schrafft's for a double-gin martini, straight up, and a stack of cinnamon toast from which the crusts have been removed. May 20, 2003 | Rating: 2.5/5
The result of this high-powered collaboration is a movie of such unrelieved genteelness that it makes one long to head for Schrafft's for a double-gin martini, straight up, and a stack of cinnamon toast from which the crusts have been removed.
Vincent Canby
84 Charing Cross Road is a movie made for people who love London and books. The only problem is that the heroine doesn't get to London until it's too late, and nobody ever seems to read in this movie. Jan 1, 2000 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
84 Charing Cross Road is a movie made for people who love London and books. The only problem is that the heroine doesn't get to London until it's too late, and nobody ever seems to read in this movie.
Roger Ebert
"84 Charing Cross Road" is a valuable film for all of the right reasons of theatrical balance and narrative truth. It is a movie that hits you like a live play. Aug 29, 2017 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
"84 Charing Cross Road" is a valuable film for all of the right reasons of theatrical balance and narrative truth. It is a movie that hits you like a live play.
Cole Smithey
This wonderful little gem is something of a critic-proof cult item in my house. Feb 10, 2007 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
This wonderful little gem is something of a critic-proof cult item in my house.
Jeffrey M. Anderson
A staid, static movie that wins us over with its outstanding performances and its love of books. Mar 26, 2003 | Rating: 4/5
A staid, static movie that wins us over with its outstanding performances and its love of books.
Vividly conveys the magical ways that friendship can open up new worlds of experience and meaning. Sep 1, 2002 | Full Review…
Vividly conveys the magical ways that friendship can open up new worlds of experience and meaning.
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
By a miracle of writing, acting and direction, what could have been a deadly moviegoing experience is turned into something very like pure gold. Aug 14, 2002 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…
By a miracle of writing, acting and direction, what could have been a deadly moviegoing experience is turned into something very like pure gold.
Ken Hanke
Hopkins and Dench are wonderful together. Jul 25, 2002 | Rating: 4/5
Hopkins and Dench are wonderful together.
Scott Weinberg
If you are really into reading and posting reviews on this site you are probably the kind of person who would like this movie. Anthony Hopkins and Anne Bancroft carry on a long term relationship based entirely using there opinions and reviews of books. Even with this limitation it is still some of the best character development set to screen. Bancroft makes the opening play by sending a letter to Hopkins asking him to sell her good cheap books. Hopkins plays a reserved well educated clerk in a second hand book store in postwar London. Bancroft plays outspoken and fairly brash aspiring writer in New York. Hopkins makes selections and Bancroft keeps ordering more books and comments on his selection. The relationship slowly evolves over twenty years leaving there friendship more important than the book crossing the Atlantic.
Super Reviewer
A nice Sunday afternoon film. Nice to see Hopkins in something before he became a big star (when he still tried to act!). No-one does repressed Englishman better than him and this character ranks with his Remains of the Day, Shadowlands, Howards End and Elephant Man characters. Bancroft is great too. It's really a film of two halves. If they ever remake it they they use two directors; one to shoot the London section and the other to shoot the NY section. Would be an interesting experiment.
lovely intelligent film with two outstanding performances.
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