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Another Year
Overview
During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.
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This humane movie is an ode to joy, albeit of the mature sort.
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Desperation and fulfillment, anxiety and warmth, pain and contentment -- all come together in the darkly splendid Another Year.
Tom Long, Detroit News
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Mike Leigh's films are one of a kind.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
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Another marvel of perfectly drawn, fully realized characters created from the ground up and brought to aching and glorious life.
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News
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