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"The Duke" makes an art heist charming

In 1961, an elderly Brit went on trial for stealing Goya's Duke of Wellington painting to protest paying for TV

Salon

Streaming: The Duke and other great heist movies

Roger Michell’s delightful art-theft romp starring Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren joins robbery classics from The Lavender Hill Mob to Rififi and Widows

The Guardian - UK

The Duke brings British comedy charm and smarts to the true story of one of history’s strangest art heists

The Duke stars Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren in a comedy about a crime that baffled a nation: the 1961 theft of a Goya painting from London’s National Gallery — by a 60-year-old pensioner.

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April movie guide: A Queen doco, the massive talent of Nicolas Cage, and Brad Pitt’s return

From a timely Queen Elizabeth 11 documentary to a Nicolas Cage action thriller, about himself, April's list of big screen movies is a surprising treat

The New Daily

ITV's Ant and Dec Saturday Night Takeaway: Anna Maxwell Martin's marriage to famous director and being bullied in the industry

The actress has shot to fame with her roles in Line of Duty, Motherland and Poppy Shakespeare

Wales Online

The Duke review – Jim Broadbent excels in true tale of art-stealing pensioner

Roger Michell’s final feature film brings good-natured, Ealing-style brio to the 1961 theft of Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington

The Guardian - UK

The Duke review – Jim Broadbent steals show in warm-hearted 60s-set crime caper

Roger Michell’s final feature retells story of the cussed Newcastle pensioner who stole a Goya portrait in protest at government spending priorities

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Jim Broadbent: ‘I like the idea of actors being anti-establishment’

The veteran actor on dancing with Helen Mirren, starring in Roger Michell’s final film, and why he turned down the role of Del Boy… and an OBE

The Guardian - UK

‘A testament to his joyous personality’: the stars of Roger Michell’s final film, The Duke, pay tribute

As the director’s last feature – a true-life crime caper – finally opens, Helen Mirren, Jim Broadbent, Anna Maxwell Martin and more remember the quiet genius of British cinema

The Guardian - UK

Helen Mirren tips The Duke movie about Geordie art thief to become British classic

Dame Helen starts alongside Jim Broadbent in The Duke, which tells the story of disabled Newcastle pensioner Kempton Bunton stealing a Goya painting

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