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📽️Paddington 2 has been named the best film of all time.
@susiegolds explains why this cinematic masterpiece has finally got the recognition it deserves
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telegraph.co.uk/films/0/rotten…
🧸The story of the little bear from Darkest Peru discovered on a train station platform by the good-natured Brown family has captured the hearts of millions
📽️This month it knocked Citizen Kane off the top spot on Rotten Tomatoes
🐻 Paddington 2 has all the makings of a modern classic.
📺It's progressive
🎬It's in love with cinema
🧐Hugh Grant is an Oscar-worthy villain
⭐️ A story of acceptance ⭐️
🌏At heart, Paddington 2 is a story about immigration and the film never forgets it.
🗣️"Paddington’s otherness is irreducible – he’s a bear – but it also goes almost entirely unremarked upon in the film"
⭐️ It's a love letter to the movies ⭐️
This masterpiece is jam packed with parodies of classic cinema.
🚲The Bond-esque bike chase
🚂 The steam train escape that horn-toots to Hitchcock
🌊The mock underwater tragedy, a nod to The Shape of Water
⭐️ Hugh Grant is at his best ⭐️
🧐Grant's performance as the superbly self-skewering villain Phoenix Buchanan is a work of genius.
🗣️"This is the character that transformed Grant’s image from feckless hair-flopper to a man entirely at ease with puncturing his own ego"
👑Paddington 2 has stolen the crown from Citizen Kane, which toppled off the top spot on review platform Rotten Tomatoes.
📽️Which film is better?
'The film occupies a fur-fuzzily sentimental space we reserve for the stories that once persuaded us to sleep'
Read @susiegolds's ode to Paddington 2 👇
telegraph.co.uk/films/0/rotten…
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