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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Lucy Mangan

The Midwich Cuckoos review – women’s rights are under attack, and this is what they make?

The Midwich Cuckoos
Only uses 10% of the talent its actors have to offer … The Midwich Cuckoos. Photograph: David Appleby/Sky

As any parent will tell you, there are often moments – usually around meals and bedtimes – when you look into your children’s faces and see not innocents trailing clouds of glory but obligate brood parasites gleefully draining you of every resource you have. These moments tend to pass ...

Unless you live in a certain English village in Winshire called Midwich. Then, my dears, you are stuck.

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