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Writing
Curtis weaponizes the ordinary; the ping-pong scene destroys me.
Acting
Bill Nighy delivers the most devastating 'ordinary' performance ever.
Direction
Time travel as emotional grammar, not plot device.

Director
Richard Curtis
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