Another Year Opens Saturday at the Michigan Theater Review by Jeff Meyers of the Metro Times Grade: B

If exquisitely rendered, slow moving slice-of-life cinema isn't your thing, Mike Leigh's latest, "Another Year," isn't going turn you into a convert. An uncanny chronicler of the ordinary, Leigh's movies are often plotless exercises in miserablism, creating complete little worlds that focus on the successes and disappointments of everyday people. They also boast some of the finest performances ever put to film.

Unfolding four seasons of birth, death, longing and love, "Another Year" reveals the consequences of aging while framing class, self-pity, regret and happiness as minor-key conflicts.

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