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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Nicholas Barber
Saturday 23 June 2012 16:24 BST
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Seven pensioners (including Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy and Tom Wilkinson) discover that they don't have the funds to live comfortably in Britain, so they fly off to a palatial retirement home in Jaipur, only to find that it's in a worse state than they are.

Some of our most distinguished actors deliver some sparkling one-liners, but it ends up as a gentle Sunday-evening sitcom: Benidorm for the Saga set.

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