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Woman in Gold review: even Helen Mirren is weighed down by the script’s banalities

It doesn’t come with one sentimental ending but several. Every character in fact seems gets their own

11 April 2015

9:00 AM

11 April 2015

9:00 AM

Woman in Gold

PG, Nationwide

Woman in Gold feels rather like a Jewish version of Philomena as this too is about an older woman seeking justice for what has been stolen from her in the past but, unlike the Jewish version of almost everything, this is not in any way superior, and may even be a dud.

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*I knew he was a goy even when he took his glasses off during moments of extreme emotion!

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