Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint review – Dickensian festive Britpic decorated by selection box of familiar faces
A cast including Richard E Grant, Celia Imrie, Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Nigel Planer warm up a formulaic narrative about a imperilled retirement community The annual drive to expand the festive film canon begins unseasonably early with a modest, sentimentally inclined Britpic that opens like a penny-pinching John Lewis ad; thankfully, it improves from there.
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The titular Mr Flint (John Bradley) is a Napoleonic history…
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