Very well executed

Strictly average movie

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

I kept postponing to watch this movie, till I could find a suitable weekend night to watch it. I wanted to enjoy it at most. Because there are so few movies about books, and the cast looked promising. But it was a huge disappointment.Probably the novel is much better than the movie. I don't know if there were any last minute limitations on budget etc., but the movie seems like a body with its soul removed. A lot of on-the-nose dialogue, too much predictability, not giving you the impulse to see the next scene. It could easily be played in 30 minutes instead of 2 hours, and I'm sorry to say that I felt like watching a play that was adapted from a text written for a secondary school homework. One big fault of the script was the vagueness of the source of antagonist's motivation, which is written in every book about script writing. You keep waiting to learn the reason behind, alas, you sleep while waiting. I took time to write this review, because if you have so few shots to make a picture about books in the movie industry, this shouldn't be the way it shall be done. Because it makes new movies about books seem infeasible to producers.

This was a lovely film that was steady and heart touching. Books are my favourite and this film had many of them. Wish there were more film like this nowadays and it had the touch of manners and decorum thats often lost to time. It was refreshing.

Set in a small town in 1959 England, it is the story of a woman who decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a political minefield. Despite a very talented cast 'The Bookshop' fails to captivate it's viewers but also give it's actors the benefit of a doubt since not even them can save the terribly written script and the very slow and dragged plot that occurs. The storyline was also nothing very interesting to begin with and in the end a film that you can easily forget in a matter of minutes perhaps seconds.

Beautiful movie! I was really taken by the plot and acting, it felt like real life to me. But I want a little bit more from the movie than I expect from reality. And most of all I don't want to be told what's right or wrong, black or white. Unfortunately this message is very clear here. We have evil from one side and good personified by the main character. As much as I enjoyed the film I felt certain luck of depth.