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The Knack … and How to Get It

The Knack … and How to Get It. Richard Lester, 1965.
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Edition screened: MGM/UA DVD, released 2002. English language. Runtime approximately 84 minutes.

Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.

Here at Balthazar’s List and VAF, we fancy movies set in or capitalizing on Swinging London. But The Knack really doesn’t hold up. The squinty mediocrity of the whole film takes a nosedive for its final 30-minutes, an extended and smug trivialization of rape that is truly embarrassing to sit through.