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Review: Stan & Ollie

Long gone are the days of the noughties rom-com and Jon S. Baird's charming biopic, Stan & Ollie, proves that the best way to warm our hearts is through the bromance comedy.

Stan & Ollie review from Mark Kermode

Steve Coogan and John C Reilly excel in this bittersweet film about the twilight years of the great double act.

Film review: Stan And Ollie

While it's a shame that Reilly has not had a BAFTA nod - the Oscars might balance things of course - maybe this film is more of a landmark for Coogan. It might just be the first time he has played a role onscreen where there is no hint whatsoever of Alan Partridge in the performance.

Review: Stan & Ollie

Stan & Ollie is an incredibly satisfying historical and biographical drama, encapsulating the core tenets of not only what the duo meant to each other, but also what their work means to their fans and the future generations that have grown up either around - or aware of - their movies. Baird's film can ultimately be labelled a cast-iron success, thanks mainly to the fabulous performances of his two main protagonists and their supporting cast.

After last year's well-received Comedy Blap (Channel 4's fancy name for a short, if you were wondering), Rufus Jones's sitcom about a family who unknowingly return from a holiday in France with a Syrian refugee (Youssef Kerkour) in their boot receives a full series. Its tone is gentle rather than stridently satirical - understandable given the subject matter - but the gags are strong, the performances are likeable and the issues depicted could not be more timely.

Film review: Stan & Ollie is 'a fine bromance'

Steve Coogan and John C Reilly star in a new biopic of Laurel and Hardy that is an irresistible homage to the iconic comedy duo.

#LFF 2018: Stan & Ollie review

Inspired by the book Laurel and Hardy: The British Tours by A.J. Marriot, who also featured as a consultant on the film, Jon S. Baird's Stan & Ollie is part biography and part homage to Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, arguably the greatest stage and screen comedy performers of their time.

Stan & Ollie: Coogan's a hoot, Reilly deserves an Oscar

This tragic-comic biopic is mostly set in 1953, the year Hollywood comedy legends Stan Laurel and Ollie Hardy toured the UK and Ireland in hopes of revitalising their careers and mending their friendship (damaged by Ollie's willingness to make a movie, 1939's Zenobia, minus Stan).

2018 BFI London Film Festival Review - Stan & Ollie

The love Laurel and Hardy channelled into their routines is clearly reflected - and respected - by the entirety of Stan & Ollie's cast and crew, and it shines through onscreen in this melancholic but heartfelt celebration of the double act.

Review: Stan & Ollie

Making a comedy about two icons of slapstick is a road so full of pitfalls that even the great men themselves would probably just have taken a different route - one marked "new tarmac" perhaps. And yet the film - like the marriage of a six-foot-one, 280-pound Georgian with a rake of a man from the north of England - just works.