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FlixChatter Review: The Lost King (2023) – Sally Hawkins charms as a tenacious Richard III superfan in a moving feel-good story

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I have been waiting for this movie for quite some time, as a few years ago I became obsessed with Richard III after watching The White Queen. The Starz series presented a more sympathetic portrayal of the last Plantagenet king, who was also the last English king to die in battle in 1485 which ended …

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FlixChatter Review: Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)

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I have to admit that I didn't know this film was in the works until I saw it on the press screening list. I had listened to Kenneth Turan's review of the French film Marguerite on NPR, which is also a biopic of a wealthy woman who loves music and the opera but is delusional about …

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