It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

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.

I really wanted to enjoy this movie and went along expecting it to be a typical, gentle, rather slow English nostalgia film. Which it was. But unfortunately the storyline just wasn't enough to overcome the ponderously slow dialogue and fairly weak acting.The most entertaining part of the film was when a lady in the back row of the cinema started snoring. Loudly.

I wanted to like this film, I really did. Its nicely set, the costumes and the feeling of the time and place are quite accurate. The story is ok. Its just so very flat a film. I don't mind slowly paced films, but to make up for the lack of pace they need to be charming, or witty, or nuanced.....or at the very least original. All through this film I thought of Chocolat. Similar premise in both, but Chocolat is better scripted, acted and directed. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with The Bookshop, it just underwhelms. Maybe I should have watched it on a lazy Sunday afternoon, it passes the time harmlessly. A bit like a BBC period drama.

Please! Overworked, overwrought, overacted and ... over-rated.The music is laughably inappropriate -- soaring violins and orchestral splashes do not match the script.Bill Nighy plays ... Bill Nighy. He does his best, but the awkward script is against him.There is too much missing background. For example, the heroine has been a widow for 16 years ... so what did she do all that time? Where did she get her money from? After she loses everything, what the hell does she do/is she going to do?Why the long, lingering shots of water, fields, trees? They add nothing to the film; they have no purpose except to look "pretty"I'm sorry, but I've seen student efforts that rated as highly as this ... and not as pretentious.