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==Reception==
===Critical reception===
On [[review aggregator]] website [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film holds an approval rating of 56% based on 108 reviews, and an average rating of 5.5/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "A rare adaptation that sticks too closely to its source material, ''The Bookshop''{{'}}s meticulously crafted world building gets lost in its meandering pace".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_bookshop |title=The Bookshop (2018) |work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |publisher=[[Fandango Media]] |access-date=23 December 2020}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film has a weighted average score of 62 out of 100, based on 22 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-bookshop| title=The Bookshop Reviews| publisher=[[CBS Interactive]]|work=[[Metacritic]] | access-date=2 September 2018}}</ref>
Guy Lodge of [[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] criticized various aspects of the film's production. Lodge claimed that Jean-Claude Larrieu's cinematography was inconsistent and hard-to-pin down "alternating between pastoral naturalism and ominously theatrical exterior lighting," Lodge called the supporting actors contributions "wildly uneven" in quality, and Alfonso de Vilallonga’s score as too heavy-handed. Lodge concluded that "''The Bookshop'' perhaps makes the case for printed matter in more ways than it intends."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lodge |first=Guy |date=2018-02-16 |title=Film Review: ‘The Bookshop’ |url=https://variety.com/2018/film/reviews/the-bookshop-review-1202701795/ |access-date=2023-09-09 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref> Nell Minow of [[RogerEbert.com]] similarly gave a reserved evaluation of the film, giving it a modest two out of four stars and claiming: "Having the right ingredients does not always make a good cake...Movies, like reading, should expand our ability to understand, and this one does not even understand itself."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Minow |first=Nell |title=The Bookshop movie review & film summary (2018) {{!}} Roger Ebert |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-bookshop-2018 |access-date=2023-09-09 |website=https://www.rogerebert.com/ |language=en}}</ref>
===Awards and nominations===
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