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The Lady in the Van (12A), directed by Nicholas Hytner
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MAGGIE SMITH has already rightly won two Oscars and, if there’s any justice, she’ll deservedly win a third for her magnificent portrait of a dispossessed woman befriended by playwright Alan Bennett.
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