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Review of No Man’s Land by Harold Pinter (FOLLOW LINK), 2016, with Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart. In spite of the fulsome reviews and the presence of both Gandalf and Captain Picard, we both disliked Pinter’s intrinsic play. We are completely out on a limb here! Reviews disagree.

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Reviews added of Mr. Holmes (LINKED) starring Ian McKellan as Sherlock Holmes, 35 years into retirement. Ian McKellan has to play Sherlock at 58 (before World War I)  and then later in 1947 as 93. A brilliant feat in an understated but thought-provoking Britsh film … a film about fact, fiction and memory.

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