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Paddington 2 has been named the best film of all time.@susiegolds explains why this cinematic masterpiece has finally got the recognition it deserves
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/rotten-tomatoes-right-paddington-2-greatest-film-time/
The story of the little bear from Darkest Peru discovered on a train station platform by the good-natured Brown family has captured the hearts of millions This month it knocked Citizen Kane off the top spot on Rotten Tomatoes
Paddington 2 has all the makings of a modern classic.
It's progressive 
It's in love with cinema
Hugh Grant is an Oscar-worthy villain
A story of acceptance 
At heart, Paddington 2 is a story about immigration and the film never forgets it.
"Paddington’s otherness is irreducible – he’s a bear – but it also goes almost entirely unremarked upon in the film"
It's a love letter to the movies This masterpiece is jam packed with parodies of classic cinema.
The Bond-esque bike chase
The steam train escape that horn-toots to Hitchcock
The mock underwater tragedy, a nod to The Shape of Water
Hugh Grant is at his best Grant's performance as the superbly self-skewering villain Phoenix Buchanan is a work of genius."This is the character that transformed Grant’s image from feckless hair-flopper to a man entirely at ease with puncturing his own ego"
Paddington 2 has stolen the crown from Citizen Kane, which toppled off the top spot on review platform Rotten Tomatoes.Which film is better?
'The film occupies a fur-fuzzily sentimental space we reserve for the stories that once persuaded us to sleep'
Read @susiegolds's ode to Paddington 2 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/rotten-tomatoes-right-paddington-2-greatest-film-time/
Read @susiegolds's ode to Paddington 2
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/rotten-tomatoes-right-paddington-2-greatest-film-time/
