About time movie 2013 review9/7/2023 When he sweet-talked Julia Roberts in “Notting Hill,” the whole world swooned, and the sun slid further below the horizon of John Bull’s manly old empire.įourteen years later, the extent of the decline can be measured in “About Time,” a flimsy bit of mildly romantic, putatively comic Anglophile bait from the writer of “Notting Hill,” Richard Curtis. With all due respect - or maybe just, sort of, well, just the tiniest smidgen of due respect, if you see what I mean - to Hugh Grant, it all seems to be his fault. The once proud nation that in the last century gave us such vital and varied paragons of masculinity as Winston Churchill, Laurence Olivier, Mick Jagger and Morrissey is now represented in the popular imagination mainly by rabbity, passive-aggressive stammerers. ![]() ![]() It is about time we addressed the crisis of British manhood.
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